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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.
Who is protected from Wrongful Dismissal
Following amendments to the Employment Act in 1 April 2019, all employees, regardless of salary, now receive protection against wrongful dismissal by the employer. Previously, this protection was limited to employees earning less than S$4,500. Today, even C-level employees may seek protection against wrongful dismissal.
Most employers will agree that if an employee is dismissed on the whim and fancy of the employer, this should be considered wrongful dismissal.
However, it may come as a surprise that even if the employee was:
dismissed with notice (the employee serves out the notice period and is paid during the notice period);
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