စကၤာပူကိုုလာရန္ႀကိူးစားေနေသာ ေရႊလူငယ္ေလးေတြသူမ်ား သိထားရန္...
၂၂ ေယာက္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား အလုပ္လုပ္သူမ်ားကို MOM အားလစာ လိမ္ညာမွဳျဖင့္ အေရးယူျခင္း..
1. 18 February 2014 တြင္ MOM က အိႏၵိယႏုိင္ငံသား အလုပ္လုပ္သူမ်ားကို လစာလိမ္ညာမွဳျဖင့္ အေရးယူလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ MOM မွ ပထမဆံုးအၾကိမ္အေရးယူျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တရားစဲြခံရေသာ လူမ်ားမွာ အလုပ္လုပ္ခြင့္ Pass ရရန္အတြက္ MOM ကို လစာ လိမ္ညာတင္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း
2. ၂၂ ေယာက္ေသာ Foreign Employees တို႔ဟာ 2010 ႏို၀င္ဘာမွ 2013 စက္တင္ဘာလအတြင္း လစာလိမ္ညာကာ Pass ေလ်ာက္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ EP 19 ေယာက္နဲ႔ SPass 3 ေယာက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Company ေလးခုမွ ေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့ၾကၿပီး 7-Eleven စတိုးဆိုင္ေတြ အတြက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
3. EP နဲ႔ SPass ေလ်ာက္ဖို႔အတြက္ အနဲဆံုးလစာ သတ္မွတ္ထားၿပီးသားပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ တရားစြဲခံရေသာ လူမ်ားမွာ သူတို႔ကို အလုပ္ရွင္မွ သတ္မွတ္လစာထက္ေလ်ွာ့ေပးမွာကို သိရက္နဲ႔ MOM ကိုတင္ရမဲ့ စာရြက္စာတမ္းမွာ လစာ 2400 မွ 4550 အတြင္း ၾကရမယ္ဆိုၿပီး ၀န္ခံကတိေတြေရးထိုးခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ အားလံုးထဲမွာ 15ေယာက္က စကၤာပူမွာ အလုပ္လုပ္တာ တစ္ႏွစ္မရွိေသးပါဘူး
အျပစ္ဒဏ္မ်ား
4. ၁၀ေယာက္ကေတာ့ အျပစ္ရွိေၾကာင္း၀န္ခံၿပီးေတာ့ မေန႔က အျပစ္ခ်လိုက္ပါၿပီ။ သူတို႔ေတြရဲ႕ လစာေတြဟာ Giro နဲ႔ သူတို႔ဘဏ္ထဲကို၀င္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေနာက္ရက္ေတြမွာပဲ ပိုက္ဆံ 600 ကေန 3350 ကို ဘဏ္ကထုတ္ၿပီး သူတို႔အလုပ္ရွင္ေတြကို ျပန္ေပးၾကတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
5. အျပစ္၀န္ခံၿပီးေနာက္ သူတို႔ေတြဟာ ဒဏ္ေငြ 5000 မွ 7000 (ဒါမွမဟုတ္) 5ပတ္မွ 7ပတ္ ေထာင္က်ခံရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ သူတို႔ေတြဟာ ဒဏ္ေငြမေပးၾကတဲ့အတြက္ ေထာင္က်ခံၾကမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
6. က်န္တဲ့ 12 ေယာက္အနက္ 11 ေယာက္ကေတာ့ တရားရံုးခ်ိန္းကို 25 February 2014 နဲ႔ 18 March 2014 သတ္မွတ္ထားပါတယ္။ က်န္တစ္ေယာက္ကေတာ့ 28 February 2014 ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
7. MOM ဟာ အလုပ္ရွင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေအဂ်င္စီေတြကို သတ္သတ္ အျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်ဖို႔ရွိတယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
Foreign Workers ေတြဟာ မွန္ကန္တဲ့ ၀န္ခံကတိလက္မွတ္ထိုးဖို႔လိုပါတယ္
8. အခုလို လစာေတြလိမ္ညာၿပီးPass ေလွ်ာက္တဲ့ကိစၥကို MOM ဟာ ဆက္လက္ စစ္ေဆးသြားမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုေနာက္ထပ္ ဆင္တူျပသနာ Company 75 ခုမွ ငွားရမ္းထားေသာ အလုပ္သမား 230 ကိုလဲ စစ္ေဆးေနပါတယ္။ MOM ဟာ ႏို၀င္ဘာ 2012က ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ စည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ားအရ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး အျပစ္ရွိပါက အဆိုးဆံုးအျဖစ္ ဒဏ္ေငြ 20000 အျပင္၊ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ ေထာင္က်ခံရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
9. အဲ့ဒါေၾကာင့္ အလုပ္ေလ်ာက္သူေတြအေနနဲ႔ မွန္ကန္ၿပီး ျပည့္စံုတဲ့ ၀န္ခံကတိမ်ဳိးနဲ႔ Pass ေတြကို ေလ်ာက္ၾကဖုိ႔လိုပါတယ္။
10. အဲ့လိုအျဖစ္မ်ဳိးေတြ သိရင္၊ ရွိရင္ တိုင္ၾကားဖို႔ ေျပာထားပါတယ္။
MOM has charged 25 foreigners for submitting forged academic certificates to obtain work passes – the largest number charged this year. They were sentenced to between four and 12 weeks’ jail, which are the most severe penalties meted out for the offence. They will also be barred from working in Singapore.
22 Foreign Employees From Four Companies Prosecuted For Falsely Declaring Their Salaries To MOM
Another 75 employers and 230 foreign employees investigated for similar offences
19 February 2014- On 18 February 2014, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged 22 foreign employees from India for providing false salary information to obtain work passes. This is the first tranche of foreign employees MOM is taking action against1.
Accused persons made false declarations to MOM to obtain work passes - The 22 foreign employees2 made false statements to the Controller of Work Passes between November 2010 and September 2013 in connection with the applications for 19 Employment Passes (EPs) and three S Passes (SPs). They were employed by four separate companies – Vina Trading, Manthra Enterprises, Magnaton Ventures and Nalla Traders, which are franchisees of local convenience chain store 7-Eleven. (Please refer to the
Annex for a breakdown of the 22 foreign employees prosecuted under each respective company.)
- Applicants for EPs or SPs must meet the minimum salary requirement. However, the accused persons knew that their employers would pay them less than the amounts declared. The accused persons thus made false declarations to MOM, when they signed declaration forms which indicated their salaries to be ranging from $2,400 to $4,5503. Among the accused, 15 of them had worked less than a year in Singapore.
Penalties - The 10 accused persons from Vina Trading pleaded guilty to the charges yesterday. Investigations revealed that these accused persons received their declared salaries from their employer, most of which were paid through GIRO. Subsequently, these accused persons had to withdraw cash ranging from $600 to $3,350, and return the monies to their employer.
- Following their guilty pleas, they were fined between $5,000 and $7,000 or in default five weeks’ and seven weeks’ imprisonment respectively. All accused persons did not pay the fines and will serve the in-default sentences. They will also be permanently banned from working in Singapore.
- For the remaining 12 accused persons, 11 of them sought an adjournment for their cases to be heard in Court on 25 February 2014 and 18 March 2014. The remaining accused person is claiming trial, and the matter has been fixed for a pre-trial conference on 28 February 2014. (Please refer to the
- MOM will separately take action against the employers and the employment agents involved.
Foreign Workers Must Make Truthful Declarations - The prosecutions are part of MOM’s continual enforcement efforts. There are stringent checks by MOM to detect and enforce against such false applications. MOM is currently investigating other similar false declaration cases involving 230 foreigners hired by 75 employers. MOM has stepped up on enforcement in this area following the raising of maximum penalties for false declaration under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (EFMA) in November 2012. Offenders will be severely dealt with – if convicted, they can be fined up to $20,000, and / or imprisoned up to two years.
- It is the responsibility of all applicants to make accurate, complete and truthful declarations to the Controller of Work Passes. Making a false declaration to the Controller through the fraudulent submission of salary information to circumvent work pass eligibility criteria is a deliberate attempt to deceive MOM.
- Members of the public who know of persons or employers who contravene the EFMA should report the matter to MOM at Tel: (65) 6438 5122 or email mom_fmmd@mom.gov.sg. All information will be kept strictly confidential.
1Another 18 foreign employees, who have made similar false salary declarations, will be charged in Court on 27 February 2014.
2The 22 accused included 21 males and one female aged between 24 and 39 years old.
3The accused persons’ declared occupations included store managers, customer service managers and account managers.
Annex - Breakdown of the 22 foreign employees prosecuted under each respective company.ဒါဘယ္ကုုမၺဏီေတြမွာ ဘယ္လိုုေနရာေတြမွာ ဘယ္လိုု အလုုပ္ေတြခိုုင္းထားသလဲၾကည့္လိုုက္ပါအံုုး....
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အားလံုးသိတဲ့အတိုင္းပဲ ဒီလို လစာလိမ္ညာၿပီးတင္တာဟာ သူတို႔ အနဲဆံုးလစာသတ္မွတ္ၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္း ထံုးစံလိုကိုျဖစ္ေနတာ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားသိၾကမွာပါ။
တျခားႏုိင္ငံသားေတြလဲ အဲ့ဒီလိုလုပ္ေနၾကတာပါပဲ။ တခါတေလ အလုပ္ေလ်ာက္တဲ့သူေတြဟာ အလုပ္ရွင္ေတြ(or) ေအးဂ်င့္က ကိုယ့္အတြက္ လစာဘယ္ေလာက္နဲ႔ တင္ေလ်ာက္လိုက္မွန္းေတာင္ သိခ်င္မွသိၾကတာပါ။
ဒီေနရာမွာလက္မွတ္ထိုးဆိုလို႔ ထိုးလိုက္ၾကတယ္ဆိုတာေတြ အမ်ားၾကီးပါပဲ။ ကိုယ့္ကိုေျပာထားတဲ့ လစာရရင္ၿပီးေရာဆိုၿပီးေနေနၾကတာေတြ ရွိပါတယ္။
လက္မွတ္ထိုးလိုက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ အေပၚက အေၾကာင္းအရာေတြအားလံုးဟာ မွန္ကန္ပါတယ္ဆိုၿပီး ကိုယ္ကလက္မွတ္ထိုးလိုက္ရတာပါ။ ကိုယ္သိလိုက္တာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္မသိလိုက္တာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ကိုယ္ကလက္မွတ္ထိုးၿပီးၿပီဆိုတာနဲ႔ ၿပီးသြားပါၿပီ။ မသိဘူးလို႔ ေျပာလို႔မရေတာ့ပါဘူး။
အလုပ္ရွင္ေတြအျပစ္လဲ အမ်ားၾကီးရွိတာ သိၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အခုထိေတာ့ သူတို႔ကို အေရးမယူရေသးဘူး အလုပ္သမားေတြကအရင္ အေရးယူခံရပါၿပီ။ သူတို႔ကိုဘယ္လိုေတြအေရးယူမယ္ဆိုတာေတာ့ ဆက္လက္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရမွာပါ။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ အလုပ္ရခ်င္ေဇာနဲ႔ ဘယ္ေလာက္ရရဆိုၿပီး အလုပ္ေလ်ာက္တာေတြ၊ အဲ့လို လစာပိုတင္ၿပီး သူေဌးကို ပိုက္ဆံျပန္ေပးဆိုတာေတြကို အလုပ္ရွင္ေတြ ေအးဂ်င့္ေတြဘက္က လုပ္ဖို႔ေျပာလာရင္ေတာင္ မလုပ္ၾကဖို႔ တိုက္တြန္းခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ကိုယ့္ႏုိင္ငံသားေတြ ဒုကၡေရာက္တာ မျမင္ခ်င္ပါဘူး။ အားလံုးအဆင္ေျပၾကပါေစ။
Wailuwady ေ၀ဠဳ၀တီ
MOM Prosecutes 25 Foreign Employees for Submitting Forged Academic Certificates
21 February 2014
- On 20 February 2014, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged 25 foreign employees under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (EFMA), for submitting forged academic certificates to the Controller of Work Passes to obtain work passes to work in Singapore.
- All the 25 foreign employees pleaded guilty to the charges, and were sentenced to imprisonment by the Court – 22 of them to 10 weeks', two to 12 weeks', and one to four weeks' imprisonment. This is the largest number of foreign employees prosecuted for this offence in this year, and the penalties are the most severe the Court has meted out so far for the offence.
Accused persons fraudulently obtained 20 S Passes and five Employment Passes - The 25 foreign employees1 obtained forged academic certificates in their home countries, and used them to apply for work passes between 2 November 2012 and 7 June 2013. Based on the false information submitted, they were issued 20 S Passes and five Employment Passes (EPs)2. They did not possess the requisite university degree qualifications, but knowingly used the forged academic certificates to mislead MOM to believe that they met the required educational criteria to obtain work passes.
- MOM launched investigations between November and December 2013, and discovered that the certificates were forged through checks with the relevant certificate issuing institutions and respective foreign government departments. MOM’s investigations revealed that all the employers were unaware that the foreign employees had submitted forged academic certificates for their work pass applications. As the employers were not complicit, no further actions were taken against them.
- MOM successfully prosecuted 78 foreign employees for similar offences in 2013, and in 2012, 43 foreign employees were convicted. The majority of these foreign employees were jailed for up to four weeks by the Court. They were also barred from working in Singapore.
Robust measures in place to deter foreigners with fake academic certificates - MOM amended the EFMA in November 2012, and made the offence of making false statements or submitting any false document relating to academic qualifications to the Controller a standalone offence with stiffer penalties. Offenders may be fined up to $20,000, and /or imprisoned up to two years.
- Apart from legislative measures, MOM has strengthened processes and fraud detection capabilities. This include enhancing our internal database checks, supplementing these checks with third-party screening agencies, verifying the certificate’s authenticity directly with the issuing educational institution, and requiring employers/employment agents to upload verification proof of diplomas and higher qualifications for applications for EP, S Pass or Training Employment Pass. MOM also performs retrospective audits.
Foreign employees and employers must make truthful declarations - All applicants for passes must make accurate, complete and truthful declarations to the Controller. Making a false declaration by submitting forged academic certificates is a deliberate attempt to mislead the Controller. MOM will not condone such acts of deceit, and will take severe actions against offenders, as well as errant employers and employment agencies if they abet foreign applicants who submit forged academic certificates.
- Members of the public who know of such offences should report the matter to MOM at Tel: (65) 6438 5122 or email mom_fmmd@mom.gov.sg. All information will be kept strictly confidential.
1 Sixteen from Myanmar, seven from India and two from the Philippines, comprising 21 males and four females.
2 The accused persons were issued work passes to work in operations, sales, and food and beverage sectors. Among them were also a hair restoration technologist, a quality control executive and a chef. They all worked for less than a year in Singapore.
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