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.