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16 Feb 2021 11:53AM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: The Food, Drinks and Allied Workers Union (FDAWU) announced on Tuesday (Feb 16) that it plans to unionise confectionery firm Twelve Cupcakes, which was found to have underpaid foreign employees over about two years.
The union aims to “represent and speak up for the employees, and work with the management to educate on the fair employment legislation and practices, and their responsibilities and care towards their employees’ welfare,” its General Secretary Tan Hock Soon said in a media statement.
Twelve Cupcakes slapped with SG$119,500 fine for underpaying employees Details 13 January 2021
Singapore-based confectionery company Twelve Cupcakes has been fined SG$119,500 for underpaying seven employees, according to multiple media reports including
The Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia. The company was convicted under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act on 15 counts of underpaying its employees in 2017 and 2018.
Citing court documents,
The Straits Times reported that all seven employees were S-Pass holders at the time of the offence. It is added that that while the staff monthly salaries ranged from SG$2,200 to SG$2,600 each, Twelve Cupcakes only paid the employees amounts ranging from SG$1,400 to SG$2,050. Subsequently in May 2018, the company reportedly paid them full salaries, but told them to return a part of it in cash.
Twelve Cupcakes Fined $119,500 After Underpaying 7 Employees, Company Has Repaid Salaries Owed
Judge agrees offences were hard to detect.
Twelve Cupcakes Fined $119,500 For Underpaying 7 Employees From 2016-2018
Employers in Singapore should know that it is a crime to underpay employees local and foreign. For each offence committed, a company may be fined up to $10,000.
Unfortunately, local bakery chain Twelve Cupcakes – founded by former DJ Daniel Ong and Jaime Teo – was fined for underpaying 7 foreign employees of about $114,000 over 2 years.
Twelve Cupcakes fined after pleading guilty
According to Channel NewsAsia (CNA), Twelve Cupcakes underpaid 7 employees – each promised a salary of between $2,200 and $2,600 – from 2016-2018.
December 31, 2020
From left: Xiaxue, Show Lo, Dee Kosh
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Show Lo s sex scandals
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