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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.
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Twelve Cupcakes co-founder Jaime Teo arriving at the State Courts on Mar 9, 2021. (Photo: Calvin Oh)
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SINGAPORE: Homegrown bakery chain Twelve Cupcakes co-founder Jaime Teo was fined S$65,000 on Tuesday (Mar 9) for underpaying foreign workers when she helmed the company with her then-husband Daniel Ong.
Teo, a local celebrity and former Miss Universe Singapore, allowed Twelve Cupcakes to underpay seven foreign employees who worked at the bakery over three years almost S$100,000. She was a director of the firm at the time.
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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.
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Twelve Cupcakes founders Daniel Ong and Jaime Teo arrive at the State Courts on Dec 29, 2020. (Photos: Calvin Oh)
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SINGAPORE: Twelve Cupcakes founders Daniel Ong and Jaime Teo were charged in court on Tuesday (Dec 29) with breaching employment laws, in the latest of legal troubles for the homegrown bakery chain.
Ong, 45, received 24 counts under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act for offences allegedly committed while he was at the helm of the cupcake chain.