70 firms penalised for unfair hiring in H1; double the whole of 2019

Singapore

THE number of employers who were penalised for discriminatory hiring practices in the first half of 2020 was double the number for the whole of 2019, as Singapore authorities stepped up their investigations through the use of data analytics.

For the first six months of the year, the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (Tafep) looked into 260 cases of possibly discriminatory hiring practices, up from about 160 for the same period in 2019, according to the Employment Standards Report 2019/2020 released on Thursday.