Govt's official reply on discriminatory ad on local

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FW: MOM an NTUC stand on companies employment foreigner on social visit passTuesday, 23 March, 2010 2:27 PMFrom: "Terri/TAFEP" <[email protected]>Add sender to ContactsTo: [email protected]

Dear Mr Tan


We refer to your email below which has been brought up to TAFEP’s attention.



We thank you for your feedback. We have since been in touch with the job portal and the foreign recruitment agency to stress the importance of using objective, relevant and non-discriminatory criteria when advertising to fill a position. Both have acknowledged the value of the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices, removed the offending advertisement, agreed to sign the fair employment pledge and will also help advise their clients of the fair employment guidelines.



The Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (TAFEP) promotes fair, responsible and merit-based employment practices so that employees can realise their full potential and employers can achieve organisational excellence. Leveraging its unique tripartite identity, TAFEP works in partnership with employer organisations, unions and the government to create awareness and facilitate the adoption of fair employment practices based on merit of skills or ability, and not on discriminatory criteria such as age, race, gender, religion, family status or disability. We welcome any other feedback you may have on advancing fair employment in Singapore.



Yours sincerely


Terri Lei (Ms)
Manager



Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices

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Tan Keng Hong <[email protected]>

19/03/2010 12:01 PM


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PMO Hsien Loong LEE/PMO/SINGOV@SINGOV, MOM Kim Yong GAN/MOM/SINGOV@SINGOV, Farah RAHIM/MOM/SINGOV@SINGOV, Swee Say LIM/PMO/SINGOV, PMO Chee How HENG/PMO/SINGOV@SINGOV, [email protected]

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Re: MOM an NTUC stand on companies employment foreigner on social visit pass



Dear Sir/Madam,

Now we have companies (or recruitment companies) advertising online openly for foreigners to work here on social visit pass only.

http://singapore.job-q.com/GRAPHIC-DESIGNER(SOCIAL-VISIT-PASS-ONLY)-11207.htm

Will the authority conduct check on EC Recruitment and the so many companies that put up such avertisement online?

Thank you for your attention.

Yours Faithfully,
Tan Keng Hong

 

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I'm still awaiting the reply for the GLC Keppel Corp mass-recruiting Malaysians for jobs in Singapore from MOM Press Secretary, Ms Farah.

 

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I bet they took less than 2 mins to send the reply.

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Please also quote the email to ALL Govt bodies to separate PR out from the Resident population in their released public data. PMO acknowledged that PR are not Singapore Citizen. ==>>>

From: NPS Contact <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Singapore PR openly spoke about her desire to go home and
proud to serve NS for her motherland
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, 5 October, 2009, 6:41 PM

Dear Mr Tan

I refer to your email dated 4 October 2009.

Singapore Permanent Residents (PRs) are not Singapore citizens. They hold
citizenships of their countries of origin and we can expect them to retain
ties with these countries. For example, we have Singapore citizens holding
PRs of other countries who come back to participate in Singapore's National
Day celebrations, not unlike the example you have cited in your email.

Yours sincerely,

Ng Xiuling
Population Policy Officer, Corporate Communications
National Population Secretariat