SINGAPORE (CNA) – The Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices should be enshrined in law, the government proposed in the White Paper on Singapore Women’s Development yesterday.
“This gives a strong signal that we do not tolerate discrimination of any form, including against women,” said Minister of State for Manpower Gan Siow Huang.
“For example, a company that’s looking at hiring a new employee should be looking at qualities such as the person’s experience, the person’s ability to perform the job and not look at whether the person is a man or woman before hiring a candidate.”
Besides bad employment practices, the Tripartite Committee on Fair Workplace Practices will also be looking at new proposals to allow people to report workplace discrimination that they observe or experience, she added.
Employers will have to put in place procedures to deal with complaints or reports of discrimination, according to the White Paper. They will also have to protect the confidentiality of complainants and prohibit retaliation.
A set of tripartite guidelines on flexible work arrangements will be ready by 2024. Under the guidelines, employers will have to consider such requests from employees “fairly and properly”, Gan said.
“Flexible work arrangements will become a norm in our future workplaces, and this enables more women, especially those with caregiving responsibilities, to remain or to return to work.”
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