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Two cleaning companies convicted for not paying salaries
Posted: 25 August 2008 1458 hrs

 
 
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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has prosecuted two local cleaning companies and their directors for failing to pay their employees' salaries.

Managing director of Home and Industrial Maintenance Services, Ang Ser Hock, pleaded guilty to not paying salaries totalling some S$31,268.22 to 53 employees.

Some of the workers were not paid for a few days' work, while others went unpaid for one-and-a-half months.

The court imposed a four-month custodial sentence on Ang, after he told the Court he would not be able to pay any fines.

In the second case, the managing director of IMM & IMM Cleaning Services, Andrew Sivanesan, failed to pay salaries ranging between one and three weeks owed to 14 cleaners after terminating their employment contracts.

The company was fined S$1,500, and Sivanesan was fined the same amount.

Since 2007, MOM has prosecuted four cleaning companies for violation of the Employment Act.

Another five companies are pending prosecution for various offences under the same Act.

MOM said that it is stepping up education and enforcement efforts on employment conditions of workers, especially the lower salaried in sectors such as cleaning.

The ministry, in a statement released on Monday, reminded employers to pay salaries of workers within seven days from the end of the salary period.

Employers also have to pay their workers within three days of termination of their employment.

Those violating the Employment Act will be liable to a fine not exceeding S$1,000 per charge or to imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.

- 938 LIVE/CNA/yb


 

 



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