Serious [ Singapore News ] Ministry of Manpower : Reveal All The Racist Indian Companies in Your Watchlist !

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http://www.straitstimes.com/politic...tchlist-for-unfairly-favouring-foreigners-lim

Parliament: 500 companies placed on MOM's watchlist for unfairly favouring foreigners

Since February 2016, 1,900 EP applications have been either rejected or withheld by the Ministry of Manpower, or withdrawn by the companies. PHOTO: ST FILE

Published
Mar 5, 2018, 12:16 pm SGT
Joanna Seow
Manpower Correspondent

SINGAPORE - A total of 500 companies have been put on the Fair Consideration Framework watchlist over the past two years for unfairly favouring foreigners in their hiring, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said on Monday (March 5).

Such "triple weak" companies - who are not up to scratch in having and nurturing a strong Singaporean core, and do not have strong relevance to Singapore's economy and society - have their Employment Pass (EP) applications subject to closer scrutiny.

Since February 2016, 1,900 EP applications have been either rejected or withheld by the ministry, or withdrawn by the companies, said Mr Lim during the debate on his ministry's budget.

The companies on the watchlist come from various sectors and include placement agencies, he said.

"They have the pre-conceived idea that local PMETs (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) are either unable or unwilling to do the job, so they write them off without even considering them fairly," he said.

Mr Lim was responding to MPs such as Mr Patrick Tay (West Coast GRC), Ms Jessica Tan (East Coast GRC) and Mr Lim Biow Chuan (Mountbatten) who asked for an update on the watchlist.

He said more than 2,200 Singaporean PMETs were hired after agencies like the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (Tafep) and the institutes of higher learning worked with the companies to help them to recruit fresh graduates and mid-career local PMETs.

So far, 150 companies have improved and left the watchlist.

For example, an information technology services firm with more than a thousand PMET employees was placed on the watchlist in February 2016. But after working with Tafep and the Infocomm Media Development Authority, it hired about 200 more Singaporeans and has since been removed from the list.

The company continues to adopt progressive human resource practices, which is a win-win outcome for both the business and its workers, said Mr Lim.




https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...tch-list-not-doing-enough-hire-groom-sporeans

Published 05 March, 2018

SINGAPORE — Some 500 companies have been placed on a government watch list for not doing enough to hire Singaporeans, double the 250 on the list this time last year, said Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say on Monday (March 5) as he warned that such firms will be taken to task.

Speaking in Parliament during the Committee of Supply debate on his ministry's budget, Mr Lim said these companies have the "pre-conceived ideas" that local professionals, managers and executives (PMETs) are "either unable or unwilling to do the job".

"So they write them off without even considering them fairly ... Their Employment Pass applications are subjected to additional scrutiny," the minister added.

Addressing the same issue in March last year, Mr Lim said then that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) had placed 250 companies on the Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) watch list. The firms were from the information and communication technology, professional services, and financial and insurance activities industries, among others.

 

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[sweetiepie]

my uncle say KNN have to catch the buyer to stop the supplier mah like custom also catch ciggy buyer to stop the supplier so he say mom have to catch ownself .

 

[Cottonmouth]

Lanjiao Loong that treacherous traitor allowed this to happen and now come and pretend to wayang and do clean up.

Fuck his mother and his cheebye.

 

[mojito]

I dun understand. Just join the army and civil service lor. Leave our Indian talents alone!

 

[Ambulance]

halo boh bian lah lang kow dua lee ai yee nang jiak sai meh

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

will disGRACEful DEMAND THAT THEY APOLOGISE FOR THE HARM & UNJUST DONE TO LTs???????????????

 

[syed putra]

Indians coming to work in singapura. Not hainan island or taiwan. Understand. Singapura, the name originate from india.dontch like, get out!

 

[EunoiaJAYCEE]

They can name and shame scholarship holders who break bonds so easily, why can't they do the same for these errant companies?

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4094894.stm

Outsourcing exposes firms to fraud

By Zubair Ahmed
BBC News, Mumbai

Thousands of call centre jobs have sprouted up in India in recent years
The arrest last week of a man in western India in an alleged call-centre fraud case went unreported. This was despite the high-profile reporting on the case in April when 16 others were arrested.

This suited India's business process outsourcing (BPO) companies, especially Mphasis, whose four employees have been implicated in the case. They are yet to recover from the shock of the alleged fraud of nearly $400,000.

Amid calls for tightening BPO regulations and more effective cyber laws the country's call centres are busy taking adequate security measures. Another one or two such cases and the industry is doomed, they admit.

Police, who are still investigating the case, believe it was well thought through and very organised.

Investigating officer Sanjay Yadav says the latest arrest just highlights how well-planned and widespread the fraud was.

Backlash fears

Police say some of the 17 people currently languishing in jail opened fake accounts, and allegedly transferred large sums from the bank accounts of four American customers of Citibank whose back office work was being done by Mphasis in Pune near Mumbai.

Fake degrees and documents are a major concern of our clients

Yogesh Bhura, Quest Research


Mr Yadav says they went on a luxurious holiday to Bangkok and kept transferring more money into their fake accounts from the Thai capital.

The industry, fearing a backlash from clients in the West, has started to get its act together.

One of the security steps the BPO centres are taking is the stringent background screening of new employees.

Yogesh Bhura, whose company, Quest Research, undertakes this task, has more than 250 BPO customers.

He has clients all over Asia, but many of his new customers are Indian.

But Mr Bhura's main challenge remains "educating people of the need to make this critical activity an integral part of their recruitment policy."

He reveals that 10-25% of applicants to call centres provide false and incorrect information.

"Fake degrees and documents are a major concern of our clients," he says.

Screening

But verifying an applicant's criminal background remains the most challenging task for companies such as Mr Bhura's and he admits it: "It's a grey area: there's no central data of criminals, there's no standardised process of data storage in police stations. It's a continuous challenge."

Many believe background screening is not enough. Mr Bhura is quick to add a rider: "It's a risk mitigation and not a risk elimination activity."

Mr Singh says IT infrastructure management is inadequate


But one of his clients, Intellinet Global Services, a joint venture between HDFC and Barclays, says background verification is not the only security tool it's applying.

"We take a lot of precautions," says Manuel D'Souza, the company's HR head.

"We don't allow mobile phones in the office, no e-mail access is provided; pen and papers are not allowed in and all employees are screened when they leave the office."

But experts say call centres are a young industry in India. It still doesn't have a comprehensive security management system in place.

Vinod Singh, boss of Bangalore-based security management company Ilantus, is alarmed by the state of affairs the BPO companies are in.

"Our understanding of most of the BPOs that we have been surveying is that they have put the basic IT systems in place, they have put in a lot of money, but the management of IT infrastructure is not up to the mark," he says.

This is one of the major problems with the $4bn BPO industry, which began to flourish in India just five years ago.

Security hole

According to industry estimates, 80% of BPO companies don't use integrated security management tools. That probably explains why some current and former employees of Mphasis, which has a security certification from an international trade body, allegedly stole huge sums belonging to its clients in the U.S.

Ilantus surveyed seven call centres in Bangalore and to its horror found that the digital IDs of the former employees still existed, which potentially can be misused.

But Mr D'Souza says most companies would immediately delete the IDs of the employees who are leaving them.

Growth brings in its own pressures. Back office business is one of India's sunshine industries, growing at 30% annually. The workforce is young, loyalty is low as the young boys and girls move to greener pastures at the first opportunity.

For most of them it's not a career option, but a good first job out of college. The workforce turnover is as high as 40%. Work from the US and Europe is pouring in thick and fast.

Cyber squad

Industry players admit they know security is the top priority, but they say there is no time to implement all the security measures.

Pune police are providing a safe environment for BPO customers from the West

Sanjay Yadav, Cyber Crime Cell
Mr Bhura says background screening is just one of the security measures: "Internal security control has to be the most important component of the overall security system".

Mr Singh of Ilantus too cannot guarantee a foolproof internal security system.

"Our system is not 100%, but it dramatically reduces the risks."

But one can take a lot of satisfaction from the fact that a relatively small city like Pune has a Cyber Crime Cell.

The alleged fraud was committed in Pune-based Mphasis and it was busted by the city's Cyber Crime Cell.

As Mr Yadav of the Cell says: "We have acted swiftly to bust the fraud and recovered most of the money siphoned off. Pune police are providing a safe environment for BPO customers from the West."

Till the time the authorities come up with tighter legislations, the Cyber Crime Cells in Indian cities are the best bet.