Employers charged over pay default

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Employers charged over pay default
By Alvina Soh | Posted: 27 September 2011 1715 hrs

SINGAPORE: Six employers from various industries were charged on Tuesday in the Subordinate Courts with not paying their workers' salaries.

A cleaning company, Service Partners, faced the most number of charges.

It had not only allegedly defaulted on salary payments but also been making unauthorised deductions since early 2010.

The company and its director Jufri Saini each faced 136 charges under the Employment Act.

Jufri was the only director of the six companies to be charged.

The court heard that about 70 workers were affected and the total amount involved was more than S$67,000.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said almost 40 workers had received their full payment.

Five other employers were also charged with similar offences.

These included directors and sole proprietors from the travel, telemarketing, food and beverage sectors.

The total amount of money unpaid varied between S$3,000 and S$28,000.

All six will be back in court next month for further hearings.

MOM labour relations and workplaces division director Quek Jen Juan said: "Employers should take the payment of workers' salaries seriously and not use financial difficulty as an excuse for not paying salaries."

It is an offence under the Employment Act for an employer not to pay salary for work done within seven days after the salary period, or within three days from the termination of the contract of service.

First-time offenders can be fined up to S$5,000 and jailed six months.

-CNA/wk

 

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Jufri Saini, a director of a cleaning and building maintenance firm, faces 136 charges, while Julia Lim, a travel firm director, is accused of 19 charges. -- ST PHOTOS: WONG KWAI CHOW

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Man gets 12 weeks' jail for Employment Act offences
By Karen Ng | Posted: 19 April 2012 2029 hrs

SINGAPORE: The director of a cleaning and building maintenance firm has been convicted of Employment Act offences that include the non-payment of salaries.

Jufri Saini and the firm Service Partners each pleaded guilty to more than 100 charges.

The charges faced by Jufri were for consenting to the offences committed by the company.

101 charges were proceeded against Jufri, with 35 other charges taken into consideration.

Jufri was sentenced to 2 weeks' imprisonment per charge, with the sentence for 6 charges to run consecutively for a total of 12 weeks.

The company was fined S$404,000, at S$4,000 per charge.

Of the charges, some 30 were for unauthorised deductions from workers' monthly salaries, more than 45 for non-payment of salaries and the rest were for non-payment of outstanding salaries when workers' employment were terminated.

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