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Allowed two foreign employees to be underpaid
According to court documents seen by
Mothership, Twelve Cupcakes started employing foreign manpower in 2012 to expand its business.
The company s directors, which included Yvonne at the time, decided on the salaries of the employees.
In her capacity as director, she allowed the company to underpay two foreign employees a pastry chef and a sales executive.
She committed the offences between late 2012 and 2014.
According to court documents, the pastry chef s fixed monthly salary was supposed to be S$2,300, but only had S$1,600 credited to his bank account each month.
The sales executive only received S$1,350 out of his expected S$2,000 salary each month, and later received S$1,450 out of an expected S$2,400 monthly salary in late 2014.