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"Marine company's work pass privileges curbed for discriminating S'porean workers - AsiaOne Dec 29, 2014
"Marine company's work pass privileges curbed for discriminating S'porean workers - AsiaOne Dec 29, 2014
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has curbed the work pass privileges of marine company Prime Gold International Pte Ltd (Prime Gold) for two years for engaging in discriminatory employment practices in breach of the Fair Consideration Framework (FCF).
Under the FCF, all firms must consider Singaporeans fairly for job vacancies. They should also put in place fair hiring, employment, and staff development practices that are open, merit-based and non-discriminatory.
This is the first time a company has been given such a ban, although MOM has previously taken action against 100 odd companies for posting discriminatory job advertisements.
An online check by The Business Times showed the company's business includes barge operations.
13 of Prime Gold's former Singaporean employees, comprising Captains, Chief Officers, Chief Engineers, Greasers and Able-bodied Seamen, approached MOM for assistance in June this year.
These employees felt aggrieved when new foreign workers took over their positions after they were retrenched in phases.
Although Prime Gold claimed that the Singaporean employees were unqualified, had poor work performances and were sacked due to job redundancy and company losses, these reasons were not substantiated."
Interesting case to be brought up at this time.
Lessons for me are:
1. there WILL be all sort of reasons why employers cannot get Singaporeans like: they are choosy, they cannot take hardship, they have poor attitudes, etc. One cannot and must not deny it IF the particular Singaporean worker have such flaws. However, it will be wrong to use it as an excuse to take out Singaporean workers!;
2. it is great that MOM and its officers and taking a deep dive looking into such grievances reported. While I appreciate the amount of manpower and work that it will require to do the detailed digging, it is absolutely essential to do so as employers must be put on notice that able and willing Singaporeans should not be replaced with a whim!;
3. will this set off alarm by employers worrying about 'being forced to hire unqualified, lazy and UNCOMPETITIVE local talent'? Hopefully not UNLESS our Singaporean workforce has degenerated to such an uncompetitive level as to: unskilled, inexperienced, lazy, too picking, too pampered, unproductive, too much entitlement mentality, etc vs. the foreign workers and foreign talents. SURELY, our 1st world educational system can and DO produce very competitive local talent. Fret NOT! Yes?
As for is the punishment meted out adequate for this particular case? I think NOT. It will be interesting to learn if it is a local or a foreign employer and what is the financial status of this particular company. Is it profitable with the local talent vs. with the foreign labours.
Under the FCF, all firms must consider Singaporeans fairly for job vacancies. They should also put in place fair hiring, employment, and staff development practices that are open, merit-based and non-discriminatory.
This is the first time a company has been given such a ban, although MOM has previously taken action against 100 odd companies for posting discriminatory job advertisements.
An online check by The Business Times showed the company's business includes barge operations.
13 of Prime Gold's former Singaporean employees, comprising Captains, Chief Officers, Chief Engineers, Greasers and Able-bodied Seamen, approached MOM for assistance in June this year.
These employees felt aggrieved when new foreign workers took over their positions after they were retrenched in phases.
Although Prime Gold claimed that the Singaporean employees were unqualified, had poor work performances and were sacked due to job redundancy and company losses, these reasons were not substantiated."
Interesting case to be brought up at this time.
Lessons for me are:
1. there WILL be all sort of reasons why employers cannot get Singaporeans like: they are choosy, they cannot take hardship, they have poor attitudes, etc. One cannot and must not deny it IF the particular Singaporean worker have such flaws. However, it will be wrong to use it as an excuse to take out Singaporean workers!;
2. it is great that MOM and its officers and taking a deep dive looking into such grievances reported. While I appreciate the amount of manpower and work that it will require to do the detailed digging, it is absolutely essential to do so as employers must be put on notice that able and willing Singaporeans should not be replaced with a whim!;
3. will this set off alarm by employers worrying about 'being forced to hire unqualified, lazy and UNCOMPETITIVE local talent'? Hopefully not UNLESS our Singaporean workforce has degenerated to such an uncompetitive level as to: unskilled, inexperienced, lazy, too picking, too pampered, unproductive, too much entitlement mentality, etc vs. the foreign workers and foreign talents. SURELY, our 1st world educational system can and DO produce very competitive local talent. Fret NOT! Yes?
As for is the punishment meted out adequate for this particular case? I think NOT. It will be interesting to learn if it is a local or a foreign employer and what is the financial status of this particular company. Is it profitable with the local talent vs. with the foreign labours.
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