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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->SEVEN employers were charged in the Subordinate Courts this week, five for failing to provide their workers with the statutory benefits under the Employment Act.
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THE 7 EMPLOYERS CHARGED
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>These included failing to or under-providing their employees with annual leave, rest day, overtime pay, rest day pay and other infringements such as requiring their employees to work excessive hours and making unauthorised deductions of salaries.
Another two employers were charged for not paying salaries to their workers, said a statement from the Ministry of Manpower on Friday.
One employer, a cleaning company, Lian Cheng Contracting Pte Ltd, and its Director Cher Peng Ho, were convicted for failing to provide annual leave for four employees over a period of two to four years. There were also unauthorised deductions from the salaries of three employees between January to April 2008.
Each pleaded guilty to 15 charges and were fined $8,500 and $9,500 respectively. Another 16 charges each were taken into consideration during sentencing.
Mr Quek Jen Juan, MOM's Deputy Director of the Labour Relations and Workplaces Division, said: 'The Employment Act stipulates minimum employment standards to protect the interests of rank-and-file workers. These errant employers had deprived their vulnerable, low wage workers of their rightful statutory benefits. Employers must fulfil their legal obligations and ensure they adopt fair employment standards. We will keep up our enforcement efforts to curb abuses, particularly in sectors where there are more vulnerable workers.'
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->SEVEN employers were charged in the Subordinate Courts this week, five for failing to provide their workers with the statutory benefits under the Employment Act.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>These included failing to or under-providing their employees with annual leave, rest day, overtime pay, rest day pay and other infringements such as requiring their employees to work excessive hours and making unauthorised deductions of salaries.
Another two employers were charged for not paying salaries to their workers, said a statement from the Ministry of Manpower on Friday.
One employer, a cleaning company, Lian Cheng Contracting Pte Ltd, and its Director Cher Peng Ho, were convicted for failing to provide annual leave for four employees over a period of two to four years. There were also unauthorised deductions from the salaries of three employees between January to April 2008.
Each pleaded guilty to 15 charges and were fined $8,500 and $9,500 respectively. Another 16 charges each were taken into consideration during sentencing.
Mr Quek Jen Juan, MOM's Deputy Director of the Labour Relations and Workplaces Division, said: 'The Employment Act stipulates minimum employment standards to protect the interests of rank-and-file workers. These errant employers had deprived their vulnerable, low wage workers of their rightful statutory benefits. Employers must fulfil their legal obligations and ensure they adopt fair employment standards. We will keep up our enforcement efforts to curb abuses, particularly in sectors where there are more vulnerable workers.'
