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Foreign domestic worker fined $25K for 3 employment charges
Published on Nov 10, 2011
By Lin Wenjian
A Filipino foreign domestic worker was fined a total of $25,000 by the Subordinate Courts on Thursday for abetting an unlicenced employment agent and for making false declarations in her work permit (WP) applications to be a maid here.
Jeraldine Pagulayan Tuliao, 39, faced two charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act and one charge under the revised Employment Agencies Act (EAA) that took effect from April 1 this year.
In the first prosecution for abetment of unlicenced employment agency activities under the revised EAA, Tuliao admitted to working as an assistant to unlicenced employment agent Chua Mei Chern, 39, who is also known as Jayson or Shawn.
Tuliao was fined $20,000 for this offence. Her accomplice, Chua, will be charged in court for operating as an unlicenced employment agent on Friday.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
