Singapore PR fined $50k for unlicensed agency

In July 2010, De Luna Noriza Dancel, 30, a Singapore Permanent Resident (PR), was issued a license by the Ministry of Manpower(MOM) to operate RSD Consultancy & Services employment agency.

While she was the director of RSD, she had set-up another agency with her husband without a permit and hired him to run the agency by posting up advertisements, meeting with potential clients and collecting agency fees.

Her license for the RSD expired in July last year and was not renewed by MOM as she was being investigated for her unlicensed agency.

The couple then operated another unlicensed agency before being arrested in Dec 2011.

Dancel was fined $50,000 for operating an unlicensed employment agency and another $2,500 under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (EFMA), for employing her Filipino husband, Caladiao William Tolentino, who did not have a valid work pass.

She was the first agent to be convicted under the revised Employment Agencies Act that came into effect in April 2011, reported a local media agency.

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