Company fined $52,000 for inflating monthly salaries of foreign workers in S Pass applications

SINGAPORE - To secure work passes for its foreign employees, a company inflated their monthly salaries in its applications to the Ministry of Manpower .In one case, the company declared that a cook would be paid $3,150, when in fact, his salary was less than half that amount.

At the time of the offences, which took place between 2013 and 2017, the company operated a restaurant outlet named 7 Star Restaurant Indian/Malay Food in Upper Serangoon Road. The Straits Times understands that the restaurant has closed. 7Star Restaurant declared in its applications that the workers were earning $3,000 and $3,150 a month respectively, when they were in fact getting less than half that amount.

MOM prosecutor Erdiana Hazlina said on Thursday that the company never had the intention to pay its workers the declared salaries.

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