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.
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Twelve Cupcakes former director, sister of ex-radio DJ Daniel Ong, fined $20k for allowing firm to underpay staff
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May 21, 2021
Former radio DJ Daniel Ong pleaded guilty to 10 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Former radio DJ Daniel Ong Ming Yu, 45, was fined $65,000 on Friday (May 21) for failing to prevent Twelve Cupcakes from underpaying its foreign workers.
Ong had co-founded the confectionery chain in 2011 with then-wife artiste, Jaime Teo Chai-lin, 43.
He pleaded guilty to 10 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
Another 14 similar charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.
Teo was fined $65,000 in March after pleading guilty to 10 similar charges.
The duo employed foreign workers in 2012, and seven of those workers were underpaid between 2013 and 2016.
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Twelve Cupcakes co-founder Daniel Ong leaving the State Courts on May 21, 2021. (Photo: Marcus Mark Ramos)
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SINGAPORE: Twelve Cupcakes co-founder Daniel Ong was fined S$65,000 on Friday (May 21) for breaching employment laws when he was running the homegrown bakery chain with his then-wife Jaime Teo.
Ong, 45, pleaded guilty to 10 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, for allowing the firm to underpay or fail to pay within a fixed time the salaries of seven employees. Another 14 charges were considered in sentencing.