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Discriminatory job ad looking for Filipinos only[/h]
July 28th, 2012 |
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Dear Sir,
I would like to bring to your attention this online job ad I came across today, 25 July 2012 on Gumtree Classified Ads.
Is This Fair Play?
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From the screenshot shown, the ad clearly requested for
FILIPINOS ONLY.
In our current society, our delicate social climate is juxtaposed against a delicate backdrop of nationalist sentiments within a unique multinational, multiracial city state. Anti-foreigner sentiments are already running high due to the government’s pro-foreigner policies, and exacerbated by a number of high-profile incidents (I will not dwell into this). Albeit the humble nature of the candidate sought in this particular ad,
in any other country, any occurrences of these type of job advertising practices would be considered rare, even remote at best. But not for Singapore, evidently.
Discriminatory job ads are certainly not new in Singapore. This issue has been previously highlighted in various other cases where MOM, and in particular, our Minister of State for Manpower, Mr. Tan Chuan-Jin has clearly stated that the nation, as well as its relevant bodies governing this particular aspect of manpower practices, frowns upon any form of racial or gender bias in its entirety rearing its ugly head within any recruitment ads.
Despite our generosity (specifically in allowing it to go the first time with just a warning), the perpetrators have simply taken our goodwill for granted and certainly no heed of prior examples. This is a most blatant form of disrespect for locals residing in the host country; the malaise has to be stemmed, and the plague amputated right at the beginning before it further festers the already fractured local-foreigner relations.
This clearly has to stop.
Singaporeans do not deserve to be discriminated in their own country.Obviously, what has been done before to try to ameliorate this – is clearly not enough.
Yours Sincerely,
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Concerned Singaporean
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Editor’s note:
Take note that in the ad, it seems to be saying that the basic $1000 is for a 10 hours per day, 6 days a week work. That works out to be 60 hours a week which is a violation of the 44 hours a week work limit unless overtime is paid. Even if overtime is paid, a worker is not allowed to work more than 72 hours a month, generally speaking.
From the website of the advertising company, it says:
http://www.shengyeinternational.com/aboutus.html
Established in 2005, Sheng Ye International is a one-stop portal for expert immigration advice and visa related services for foreigners entering Singapore. In the field of foreign worker placement, we cater to multinationals and many of Singapore’s large institutions over a wide range of industrial and commercial fields. Getting the appropriate visa in an efficient way is critical to a company’s plans to recruit or relocate manpower from overseas. We manage your company’s visa/permit processing. Included in our fees are all preparations of documentations, liaisons with local government agencies and visa offices overseas, and personal contact, advice and assistance to the applicant to complete the visa application, and medical and character formalities, as necessary.
90 Middle Road
Fortune Centre # 12-06
Singapore 188979 Tel : (65) 6339 9049
Fax : (65) 6339 9005
[email protected]
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