India, Aug. 27 -- A Filipino domestic worker who secretly took on cleaning jobs outside her official employment has been fined S$13,000 by a Singapore court. One of the Singaporeans who hired her illegally was also fined S$7,000.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) began looking into the matter in December 2024 after receiving a tip-off about a possible breach of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, according to a Channel News Asia report.

Court documents revealed that the helper, 53-year-old Pido Erlinda Ocampo, had been employed legally in Singapore for over three decades, working with four official employers since 1994. Despite this, she took on part-time housecleaning jobs for 64-year-old Soh Oi Bek over a period of about four years....