What’s needed in new laws to ensure fair play at the workplace in S’pore?

SINGAPORE – After he spoke in Parliament in July about giving more teeth to Singapore’s fair employment guidelines, labour MP Patrick Tay received many e-mails from workers who had experienced or witnessed discrimination at work.

There was the PME – professional, manager and executive – who saw a foreign human resources director recruit people from his home country for positions that Singaporeans could have easily filled, such as head of customer service.