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Aug 12, 2010
4 directors, 6 firms charged
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Four firms specialising in marine work were also in court. Scaffold Master, Marine Scaffold Master and Master Scaffolds managed to repay 57 Bangladeshi workers the three months' salaries due to them after MOM's intervention. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
FOUR directors and six firms in the construction and marine sectors were hauled to court on Thursday for failing to pay workers' salaries on time. Fahhrosh Khan Shah Baz, a director of construction firms 88 Builders and 89 builders faces 43 charges.
According to court documents, a total of 94 Bangladeshi workers of the two firms were owed salaries between last Nov and this Feb. Mediation efforts by Ministry of Manpower (MOM) officers bore fruit and the salary arrears were settled. His companies were not charged with violating the Employment Act.
However, this was not the case with Sin Lim Seng Construction and its director Chew Kee Seng. Each faces 22 charges for allegedly owing salaries to eight China nationals for Oct 2008 and July last year. Similarly, U-Hin Engineering and its director Wong Siu Hung are said to have failed to pay the salaries of a Singaporean and two Malaysian workers between Sep 2008 and Jan last year.
Four firms specialising in marine work were also in court. Scaffold Master, Marine Scaffold Master and Master Scaffolds managed to repay 57 Bangladeshi workers the three months' salaries due to them after MOM's intervention. However, the firms have been charged with 162 violations with their director Bala Subramaniam Muniandy facing 57 charges. The last company is Asia Link Marine Industries which has 54 charges for late payment of salaries between Sep and Nov 2008.