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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Seven of them - four customer service executives, two sales executives and a pastry chef - were underpaid between 2013 and 2016.
For instance, the pastry chef, who was supposed to receive a monthly salary of $2,300 in mid-2014, received $1,600 instead and continued receiving a lower salary until mid-2016.
The other six foreigners also received less than what they were supposed to.
Teo was represented by lawyers Sunil Sudheesan and Diana Ngiam.
In mitigation, her lawyers told the court their client had never played a decision-making role in the human resources aspect of the business when she was a director of Twelve Cupcakes.
March 09, 2021
Jaime Teo Chai-lin pleaded guilty on Feb 4 to 10 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Artiste Jaime Teo Chai-lin, 43, was on Tuesday (March 9) fined $65,000 for failing to prevent Twelve Cupcakes - a home-grown confectionery chain which she co-founded - from underpaying its foreign workers.
The Singaporean, who is also a former model, pleaded guilty on Feb 4 to 10 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
Fourteen other charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.
Teo, who founded the firm in 2011 with former radio DJ Daniel Ong Ming Yu, 45, her husband then, admitted that she had been neglectful.