SINGAPORE- A Kopitiam employee who washed her uniform in a food
stall sink, after the food court had closed for the day, has been
sacked.
A spokesman for the food court chain, which operates more than
50 food courts in Singapore, told The Straits Times that the staff
worked at the Changi General Hospital outlet.
She had previously been issued a verbal warning for soaking her
clothes in a container, then leaving it in a food stall sink, after
business hours.
But she was caught repeating the mistake in a five-minute video
that was submitted to evening daily Shin Min.
The spokesman said that the employee had already been
comprehensively briefed on the "do's and dont's" that include "no
washing of personal items inside stalls".
The employee flouted the rules as she found it convenient to
wash her uniform in the sink, the spokesman told The Straits Times
on Thursday.
"We do not condone repeated lapses, especially pertaining to
hygiene," he added.
The incident is the latest in a series involving Kopitiam
staff.
Late last month, a food court employee caught on camera using a
fruit knife to scrape dead skin off her hand was sacked.
In June , a video of one of its employees washing her shoes in a
sink at its National University Hospital outlet went viral, and she
too was later fired.
-- ST