Appendix D: Prosecution Cases for Salary Default
Name of
FDW
Name of Amount of
employer unpaid salary
claimed
(period)
Penalty
Date of
Court
order
Achdaniah
Enilia
Donohue
$3,580
$3,000 fine
05/08/2004 Yes ($3,580 paid)
Eli Mujiah
Supardi
Jamilah
Jafaar
$1863.67
$3,000 fine
24/02/2005 Yes ($1863.67
paid)
Fajar
Iswahyni
Ng Chee
Chin
$3680
$5,000 fine
(24 Dec 03 –
10 Nov 04)
Employer failed to pay
fine and so served a
default sentence of 6
weeks’ jail
03/03/2005 No; Employer
could not pay and
so served default
jail sentence of
additional 4 weeks
Widarsih
Surayah
Bte
Samad
$3096
$5000 fine
Yeo Chai
Leng
$2783
Gemma
Martinez
Neri
FDW eventually
paid in full?
(7 Sep 01 – 9
Aug 03)
(27 Jul 03 – 2
Nov 04)
Employer failed to pay
fine and so served a
default sentence.
Employer also served a
6 weeks’ jail sentence
for illegal employment
$2000 fine
Employer failed to pay
fine and so served a
default sentence of 10
days’ jail
10/03/2005 No; Employer
could not pay and
so served default
jail sentence of
additional 4 weeks
21/07/2005 No; Employer
could not pay and
so served default
jail sentence of
additional 2 weeks
Data provided by e-mail correspondence from the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore to
Human Rights Watch on November 11, 2005.
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