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Employer fined $300 for late renewal application
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Posted on Dec 07 2004
The Department of Labor Hearing Office has ordered a $300-fine against an employer who missed the deadline for filing a renewal application for a nonresident worker by four months.
In a Dec. 6 administrative order, hearing officer Linn H. Asper gave the employer, Mirage Saipan Co. Ltd., 30 days to pay the fine. Asper said the Labor Department will resume processing the company’s labor permit application after Mirage pays the fine.
Records showed that that Mirage had wanted to renew the employment contract of one of its workers, Wu Cai Ying. However, the Labor director denied the renewal application because it was filed many months after the employee’s labor permit expired.
Mirage and Wu appealed the denial.
At the hearing of the appeal, Mirage’s representative, Marian Tudela, explained that Wu was on vacation in China until shortly before her labor permit expired. When she returned, the employer had changed personnel staff and the employer overlooked the deadline for renewing Wu’s labor permit.
Tudela also said Wu has worked for Mirage for four years and the company wants to retain her services as a valued employee.
“In order to avoid penalizing the employee, who is not at fault in this matter, the employer should be fined $300 for the extremely late filing. If the fine is paid within 30 days after the date of this order, application processing should resume,” Asper said.
