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60% of employers penalised for discriminatory hiring showed nationality bias
Office workers are seen in the financial business district in Singapore on Nov 23, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)
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SINGAPORE: Over the past three years, about 50 employers a year in Singapore have had their work pass privileges suspended for discriminatory hiring practices.
About 60 per cent of these cases each year involved nationality-based discrimination, Minister of State for Manpower Gan Siow Huang told Parliament on Thursday (Mar 4).
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Another one-third involved gender and age discrimination, split about equally between the two, while the remaining cases involved other types of discrimination, like race, marital status or family responsibilities, she said.
Published: 24 February 2021
While employers invest in various tools and resources to improve employee effectiveness and performance, it is important to recognise that one of the best enablers to cultivating a ‘dream team’ are managers themselves, share experts from Tripartite Alliance for Fair & Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP).
Every manager wants a team that is passionate about their work and self-motivated to achieve collective goals for the organisation. While employers invest in various tools and resources to improve employee effectiveness and performance, it is important to recognise that one of the best enablers to cultivating a ‘dream team’ are managers themselves. They are the ones who have direct regular access to the senior management and are in touch with those on the ground.
SINGAPORE - Tougher measures are needed to strengthen the Singaporean core of the workforce, such as anti-discrimination legislation, said labour MP Patrick Tay (Pioneer).
Mr Tay, who is also assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), added on Wednesday (Feb 24) that there remains a ground concern that reliance on foreign talent has led to an unnecessary increase in competition in the job market. To safeguard the Singaporean core and curb discriminatory hiring, we must ensure that Singaporean professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) have access to a level-playing field for jobs while balancing companies manpower needs in the immediate and longer term, he said during the Budget debate.
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Published: 02 February 2021
Getting employees to report to the workplace even though they can perform their work from home? Or are your safe distancing markers a bit vague in areas where employees might gather? If so, you could be guilty of breaching safe management measures (SMM).
Responding to a query from
Human Resources Online, a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) spokesperson shared that the two most common violations of SMM since they were implemented were:
Companies having employees reporting to the workplace despite them being able to perform their work from home.
Failing to put clear safe distancing markers at areas in the workplace where employees might gather.