New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- A Singapore-based Filipino domestic worker has been fined S$13,000 (around Rs.8.8 lakh) for secretly taking on cleaning jobs outside her official employment. One of her illegal employers was also penalised, paying S$7,000.

According to Channel News Asia, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) noticed the maid's extra work in December 2024 after receiving a tip-off about a possible breach of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.

Court documents show that 53-year-old Pido Erlinda Ocampo had been legally employed in Singapore since 1994, working for four official employers. However, she also took part-time cleaning jobs for 64-year-old Soh Oi Bek from April 2018 to February 2020, and again from March 2022 to September 2024,...