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Many employers also circumvent the S Pass, Employment Pass (EP) and Direct R1
schemes, which require minimum salaries, by inflating the salaries on paper with
no intention of paying workers the rightful amount, said Home case work manager
Luke Tan.
MOM said it received an average of 560 false salary declaration complaints every
year over a five-year period between 2015 and 2019.
Over the same five-year period, MOM took enforcement action against 950
employers for not paying foreign workers their contractual fixed monthly salary or
inflating salaries with no intention of paying the declared amounts.
These are Employment of Foreign Manpower Act offences that carry a fine of up to
$10,000, jail for up to a year, or both.
About 1,400 foreign workers were affected in these 950 cases.
MOM did not disclose how much money was involved, but said it will help victims
of underpayment recover the salaries owed to them.
ST understands that in false salary declaration cases, MOM requires errant
employers to make full restitution, even during investigations.
Employers that fail to do so can be ordered by the courts to compensate workers if
they are convicted, and may face additional penalties if they fail to comply with the
order.
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