“Company director fined $24k for employing illegal workers”

A company director who employed 11 foreigners as wash line workers without valid work passes was fined $24,000.

The foreigners worked at Sats Inflight Catering Centre 2 for up to three months before it was discovered that they were illegally employed.

On Jan 23, Fazli Hisham Mohd Fairuz Shah, 35, the director of warehousing and cleaning services firm DPRO Logistics, admitted to four offences under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act…

Ministry of Manpower (MOM) prosecutor Goh Xuan Ying told the court that foreign workers without work passes are not protected, citing the lack of insurance as an example.

Mr Goh added that abuse of such workers is not easily detectable…

The court heard that in January 2022, Sat Catering published a tender for wash line general workers at the catering centre.

Logistics services company SXW submitted a quotation for the tender but realised it did not have the manpower to provide full-time local workers…

DPRO Logistics eventually entered into an agreement with another company…

Mr Choo then told Sats Catering that SXW would be able to supply enough manpower, and its quotation was accepted…

They worked 12-hour shifts for between three and seven days a week, and were paid between $90 and $100 for each day of work…