Read the full judgment text of CACV 218/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 July 2006.
1. This case is brought by a number of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) who contend that a monthly levy imposed as from October 2003 on their employers was and remains in truth exacted from them, the employees, by means of a device, namely, a reduction in the minimum monthly wage contractually payable to them. The minimum wage reduction exercise was, they say, a sham and that the intent and effect of the two measures – the levy and the reduction – was to constitute a levy or tax payable, not by
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