Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Prescribed Infringements
25A. Compliance with prescribed duties
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Where an in-principle approval of an application for a work pass has been issued by the Controller, the employer, foreign employee or self-employed foreigner concerned must comply with such duties for or in relation to the employment of such foreign employee or the engagement of such self-employed foreigner as may be prescribed.
in-principle approval
“in-principle approval” means the in-principle approval of an application for a work pass issued by the Controller under section 7(3);
Where any employer, foreign employee or self‑employed foreigner fails to comply with any duty prescribed under subsection (1) that the employer, foreign employee or self‑employed person is required to comply with, the Controller may impose on the employer, foreign employee or self‑employed person a financial penalty of an amount, not exceeding $10,000, as the Controller may determine.
employer
“employer” means any person employing a foreign employee, and includes —(a)for the purposes of an application for a work pass — any person who has the intention or purports to have the intention to employ a foreign employee; or(b)in a case where a foreign employee has or had a valid work pass — any person specified in the work pass as the employer of the foreign employee;
For the purposes of this section —
duties may be prescribed for or in relation to any foreign employee or self‑employed foreigner, or any class thereof, to be complied with following the cancellation, revocation or expiry of the work pass of the foreign employee or self‑employed foreigner, as the case may be; and
different duties may be prescribed in relation to different classes of employers, foreign employees or self‑employed foreigners, or different categories of work passes.