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[Cottonmouth]

60% of employers penalised for discriminatory hiring showed nationality bias

04 Mar 2021 11:48AM(Updated: 04 Mar 2021 01:45PM)
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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).

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.

READ: 'Significant increase' in firms with work pass privileges suspended for discriminatory hiring practices

Ms Gan was responding to a question from MP Leon Perera (WP-Aljunied) on the percentage breakdown of cases by discrimination type.

She said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) takes a serious view of discrimination at the workplace, highlighting that over the past three years, no repeat offenders have been caught.

Ms Gan also said that the Tripartite Alliance for Fair & Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP) handled an average of 400 discrimination cases annually over the same period, including those arising from proactive checks by MOM.

READ: 47 employers added to watchlist for suspected discriminatory hiring practices: MOM

Ms Gan said the ministry will consider publishing these statistics regularly if it would help in shaping public opinion of the situation on the ground, and push employers towards fair employment practices.

The percentage of local job seekers who perceived discrimination during their job search process has increased between 2014 and 2018, she said.

"MOM will continue to conduct regular surveys so that we have a good pulse of public opinion on this matter," she added.

LESS SEVERE BREACHES
The ministry also issued an average of 40 warnings a year to employers for less severe breaches, such as lapses in HR practices that resulted in miscommunication and discrimination in the recruitment process.

"In these cases, TAFEP will step in and advise the employers on the required rectifications," Ms Gan said.

READ: Naming firms placed on watch list for possible discriminatory hiring practices is counter-productive: Josephine Teo

For companies that are not amenable to warnings by MOM as they do not hire foreigners, Ms Gan said an employer who has conducted discriminatory dismissals can be ordered by the Employment Claims Tribunal to compensate employees.

Employment agencies that accumulate demerit points for breaches can also have their licence suspended or revoked.

"We also take companies to task for false declarations of fair hiring practices, and in the past we have sought legal action against such companies," Ms Gan said.

When asked if the penalty framework will be reviewed given that the suspension of work pass privileges does not tally with offences that involve gender discrimination for instance, Ms Gan said MOM reviewed the penalty framework in 2020 and will continue to review it further.

"In fact after we have reviewed the penalties, we did not see any repeat cases of discriminatory practices from companies that were found in breach," she added.

 

[glockman]

So, the popular adage "NS for sinkies, jobs for foreigners" is right on the money. Fuck the pap for causing this problem, they ought to have known those fucking foreign leeches would hire their own nationality.

 

[Leongsam]

In most countries discrimination involves the victimisation of minorities and foreigners.

In Singapore discrimination is against the supposedly dominant race. This has to be uniquely Singapore and I would like to congratulate all sinkies for being such pussies and allowing foreigners with fake qualifications to trample all over you.

 

[batman1]

EMPLOY more foreigners again after PAP won the GE July 2020. Back to square one.

 

[Loofydralb]

No worries PAP. We will still take a few more GRCs from you next GE. You are too dense to understand to act in the interests of citizens.

Wayang, propaganda, piece meal acts and toothless legislation doesnt work anymore.

 

[laksaboy]

Over the past three years, about 50 employers a year in Singapore have had their work pass privileges suspended for discriminatory hiring practices.

Suspension is nothing without deportation.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Pap reply

Josephine Teo: "In what way has the local workforce been disadvantaged?" - The Online Citizen Asia
In response to questions asked by Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Leong Mun Wai in relation to whether or not local workers have been disadvantaged while urging the Government to make “another one small step” to implement a blanket living wage for our workers,” Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo said that the Government “took that big step in 2007” with the implementation of Workfare which came at “no cost to the employer” and was therefore “no disemployment risk to the worker”.
Mrs Teo emphasised that the “step” was already taken in 2007, as she urged everyone to “recognise that” as the “broadest base approach” the Government can provide to low-income workers.
The Minister went on to say that Workfare payments were done monthly and allowed low wage workers to not only provide for their families but to also build up their CPF so – like all Singaporeans – they have the prospect to “not just provide for their families” but “to provide for themselves in retirement”.
In answering Mr Leong’s notion on the “small step” measure, she expressed that the Workfare was already a “big step” in 2007.
In relation to Mr Leong’s other question on whether or not local workers had been disadvantaged, Mrs Teo cited the “tremendous trauma” that Singapore’s employment market went through in 2020, noting that the “employment contraction was 170 plus thousand” with the segment hit most being foreign workforce at18 thousand.
The Minister said that the “resident workforce actually grew” modestly, before asking “which country can actually produce this report card?”
“In what way has the local workforce been disadvantaged?” she concluded.

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[Hypocrite-The]

Josephine Teo chasing after potentially non-existent foreign threats instead of focusing on concrete issues under her watch - The Online Citizen Asia
by Ghui
04/03/2021
Reading Time: 4min read
Second Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo (Mrs Teo) has courted controversy in Parliament by saying that the Government needed more power to investigate “hostile information campaigns” from foreign sources.
Her rather cryptic fears for the “foreign” threat without any concrete examples have led to criticism that the Peoples’ Action Party (PAP) led Government may be using the foreign bogeyman as an excuse for tighter control over information flows in Singapore.
It has also led to questions as to the utility of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). After all, POFMA was mooted as a means to counteract foreign interference – so, why then do we need anything else?
Mrs Teo is certainly not one that shies away from controversy. Back in 2016, Mrs Teo who was Senior Minister of State at the time made a comment in a Straits Times interview where she spoke about how Singaporeans could have children before getting a flat. Specifically, she said: “You need a very small space to have sex”.
At that time, Mrs Teo was criticised for being tone-deaf and woefully unaware of the bread and butter issues faced by Singaporeans. Instead of understanding that Singaporeans felt financially stretched, she dismissed their genuine concerns by totally missing the point.
While Mrs Teo has said that she has learnt her lesson from that incident, it would appear that she may not have because she has continued in her “missing the point” ways. When the coronavirus ravaged through the migrant worker dormitories under her watch as Minister for Manpower, Mrs Teo infamously said that she did not need to apologise to migrant workers because she had “not come across one single migrant worker himself that has demanded an apology.”
And now, Mrs Teo has apparently done it again in Parliament! Even as revelations of the abuse and eventual death of a foreign domestic worker (FDW), Ms Piang Ngaih Don (Ms Piang) continue to shock Singaporeans to the core, Mrs Teo appears to be more concerned about perceived foreign threats than a concrete death of an FDW that comes under the purview of the Ministry of Manpower (MOM)!
While the MOM has said that it is currently reviewing its policies in relation to how FDWs can be safeguarded against abuse, the question still remains as to why it took so long for the MOM to review its policies? Ms Piang was abused to death in 2016. We are now in 2021.
Minister of State for Education and Manpower Gan Siow Han also skirted the issue of Ms Piang in Parliament on Wed (3 March) calling Ms Piang’s death as “tragic” and her abuse as an “act of extreme evil”, stating “unequivocally” to the house that “our society has no place for cruelty to anyone”.
However, if this is indeed the case, we go back to the question of why the MOM took almost 4 and a half years to investigate Ms Piang’s death?
Isn’t it a case of too little too late?
Why is Mrs Teo focusing on seemingly phantom foreign threats when there is an actual death within her purview that she should be strenuously investigating?
Not to mention that while she admits that there had not been any signs of interference during the recent General Election, a police report was filed on suspicion of foreign intervention against Polish blogger, Critical Spectator went unanswered.
How can Mrs Teo say that there was no foreign intervention in GE2020? Or does she think what the blogger wrote during the GE was not considered foreign intervention? This stance taken by the Government in light of Critical Spectator’s acts, would probably indicate that the powers that it is seeking, is meant to target at dissenting views instead of foreign intervention.
It also bears remembering that it was under Mrs Teo’s watch that the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the migrant worker dormitories seemingly unchecked. So much so that photographs of our migrant workers’ squalid conditions were plastered across the international media.
In any other country, Mrs Teo should have gotten the sack for losing her grip on the situation. However, not only did she not lose her job, she got reappointed to the same post after the General Election.
Let’s also not forget that the MOM had failed to take further action in relation to Parti Liyani’s complaints about being deployed to work for two separate households by her former employer Liew Mun Leong.
And now, instead of facing up to her failures as Minister for Manpower over the migrant worker COVID-19 situation, or answering questions as to why Ms Piang’s death was not investigated by the MOM earlier, she is rabbiting on about airy-fairy external threats to Singapore without providing any concrete examples whatsoever.
Why is Mrs Teo chasing after potentially non-existent threats instead of focusing on the concrete issues of the day?
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[syed putra]

What about mandarin speakers only need to apply? Anyone from china can work but not natives of the island.

 

[CPTMiller]

So, the popular adage "NS for sinkies, jobs for foreigners" is right on the money. Fuck the pap for causing this problem, they ought to have known those fucking foreign leeches would hire their own nationality.

Majority of us believe in government.
Majoriy of us care nothing of happening around them.
Majority are just sheepie walking round and round default choose PAP

 

[CPTMiller]

In most countries discrimination involves the victimisation of minorities and foreigners.

In Singapore discrimination is against the supposedly dominant race. This has to be uniquely Singapore and I would like to congratulate all sinkies for being such pussies and allowing foreigners with fake qualifications to trample all over you.

That's why Singaporean is Sheepie

 

[Cottonmouth]

Pap reply

Josephine Teo: "In what way has the local workforce been disadvantaged?" - The Online Citizen Asia
In response to questions asked by Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Leong Mun Wai in relation to whether or not local workers have been disadvantaged while urging the Government to make “another one small step” to implement a blanket living wage for our workers,” Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo said that the Government “took that big step in 2007” with the implementation of Workfare which came at “no cost to the employer” and was therefore “no disemployment risk to the worker”.
Mrs Teo emphasised that the “step” was already taken in 2007, as she urged everyone to “recognise that” as the “broadest base approach” the Government can provide to low-income workers.
The Minister went on to say that Workfare payments were done monthly and allowed low wage workers to not only provide for their families but to also build up their CPF so – like all Singaporeans – they have the prospect to “not just provide for their families” but “to provide for themselves in retirement”.
In answering Mr Leong’s notion on the “small step” measure, she expressed that the Workfare was already a “big step” in 2007.
In relation to Mr Leong’s other question on whether or not local workers had been disadvantaged, Mrs Teo cited the “tremendous trauma” that Singapore’s employment market went through in 2020, noting that the “employment contraction was 170 plus thousand” with the segment hit most being foreign workforce at18 thousand.
The Minister said that the “resident workforce actually grew” modestly, before asking “which country can actually produce this report card?”
“In what way has the local workforce been disadvantaged?” she concluded.

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This whore wants to act blur. Hope someone finds her, rape her, film her and slit her throat.

 

[mahjongking]

Oscar award for the most touching scene

 

[myfoot123]

This has to be uniquely Singapore and I would like to congratulate all sinkies for being such pussies and allowing foreigners with fake qualifications to trample all over you.

Because Singapore kangaroo law protect foreigners more than it protects sinkies. PAP and FAKE Labour Untion in Singapore simply rubber stamped such a practise. What is your defense strategy under such circumstances?

 

[millim6868]

Many sinkies are dumb,these are all wayang ,all companies are told to hire foreigners n PRs.61% still blur blur, also foreigners graduates are also hired for jobs where sinkies are left on the shelve doing grab or idling n living on parents,these are the hard truth.

 

[tanwahtiu]

It was written on the walls in 2002 Indian syndicated groups are targeting IT, System Engineers jobs with fake MSCSE, MS Certificate System Enginner qualifications.

Learn as u go and get paid to ahnehs to be under training by the company real System Engineer for 6 month.

The real system engineer get retrench under redundancy package and his job is replaced by ahneh.... local real experience system engineer that was retrenched cannot find the same job in another company becos the ahneh syndicate groups cornered the whole market.

Rent seeking economy is more important than jobs stolen by ahnehs...

In most countries discrimination involves the victimisation of minorities and foreigners.

In Singapore discrimination is against the supposedly dominant race. This has to be uniquely Singapore and I would like to congratulate all sinkies for being such pussies and allowing foreigners with fake qualifications to trample all over you.

 

[laksaboy]

 

[Hypocrite-The]

MOM bars intra-corporate transferees from bringing in family members; those under CECA exempted - The Online Citizen Asia
by Correspondent
11/01/2021
Reading Time: 2min read

It was reported in the media today that since 2 months ago (Nov 2020), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has started drawing a clear line between foreigners working in Singapore as intra-corporate transferees (ICT) and those working here on employment pass (EP) (‘MOM clarifies differences between ICT, other EP holders‘, 11 Jan).

Foreign employees of multinational corporations who are posted to the company’s Singapore branch as an ICT can no longer bring their family members with them via dependant’s passes or long-term visit passes. That is to say, their family members can no longer apply for dependant’s or long-term visit passes.

However, ICTs do enjoy an advantage. According to MOM’s website, the advertising requirement on the national Jobs Bank under the Fair-Consideration Framework (FCF) does not apply to jobs to be filled by ICTs.

“However, to be exempted, the Employment Pass candidate would have to meet the stringent definition of ICTs under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), or any applicable free trade agreements to which Singapore is party,” MOM said.

Under WTO GATS, an ICT must be in one of these roles: Manager, Executive or Specialist. Additionally, under WTO GATS, an ICT must have worked for the company outside Singapore for at least 1 year before being posted to Singapore. ICTs can also work in Singapore for up to 5 years.

In response to media enquiries with regard to its latest restriction, a MOM spokesperson added, “An ICT is also generally not eligible for future employment in Singapore upon the expiry/termination of his/her work pass, or for permanent residency.”

The number of ICTs in Singapore has consistently been below 5 per cent of all EP holders in Singapore, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said last year.

ICTs via CECA not restricted in bringing in family members

The new restriction on ICTs bringing in their family members under dependant’s or long-term visit passes, however, would not apply to a country that has a free trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore that allows them to bring their families along.

Indeed, under the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) signed between Singapore and India, ICTs can apply for dependant’s or long-term visit passes for their family members to come to Singapore, subject to prevailing criteria.

Not only they can live in Singapore, they can work here too. Under the section on “MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS” of CECA, the agreement states:


Also, the ICT rules for CECA are more relaxed than those under WTO GATS. Under CECA, ICTs can work in the foreign country for up to 8 years instead of 5.

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[mahjongking]

kan puah disgusting.....

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

What about mandarin speakers only need to apply? Anyone from china can work but not natives of the island.

majority rules mozzie shut the fuck up