Boss did not pay 100 workers
Thu, Jun 04, 2009
AsiaOne
An employer was charged in the Subordinate Courts today for failure to pay the salaries of his foreign workers totalling about $77,000.
Julian Yip Si Wei, 26, faces charges of failing to pay salaries of 100 foreign workers hired by his two companies, M Power Engineering & Iron Works and Zippon Marine & Engineering.
Yip allegedly failed to cancel the workers' permits and repatriate his workers even though he did not have work for them. Instead, he retained them in Singapore without paying their salaries.
An MOM taskforce set up earlier this year to detect errant employers has detected more than 60 companies with salary arrears, according to MOM.
"Of these, more than 70 per cent have been successfully resolved. Two other employers were also charged in March this year for failure to pay salaries of their workers." said Aw Kum Cheong, director of the foreign manpower management division.
The two employers charged in March are Loke Siew Fai of Tipper Corp Pte Ltd and Paul Lee Chiang Theng of Gates Offshore Pte Ltd, Goldrich Venture Pte Ltd and S1 Engineering Pte Ltd.
Employers who fail to pay their employees could be fined up to $5,000 or imprisoned for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both. They will also be blacklisted and banned from hiring foreign workers in future.
Thu, Jun 04, 2009
AsiaOne
An employer was charged in the Subordinate Courts today for failure to pay the salaries of his foreign workers totalling about $77,000.
Julian Yip Si Wei, 26, faces charges of failing to pay salaries of 100 foreign workers hired by his two companies, M Power Engineering & Iron Works and Zippon Marine & Engineering.
Yip allegedly failed to cancel the workers' permits and repatriate his workers even though he did not have work for them. Instead, he retained them in Singapore without paying their salaries.
An MOM taskforce set up earlier this year to detect errant employers has detected more than 60 companies with salary arrears, according to MOM.
"Of these, more than 70 per cent have been successfully resolved. Two other employers were also charged in March this year for failure to pay salaries of their workers." said Aw Kum Cheong, director of the foreign manpower management division.
The two employers charged in March are Loke Siew Fai of Tipper Corp Pte Ltd and Paul Lee Chiang Theng of Gates Offshore Pte Ltd, Goldrich Venture Pte Ltd and S1 Engineering Pte Ltd.
Employers who fail to pay their employees could be fined up to $5,000 or imprisoned for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both. They will also be blacklisted and banned from hiring foreign workers in future.
