Tag Archives: discrimination

I was discriminated because I was wearing a hijab, I like to share my unfortunate experience with you. I went for an interview today at one of the modern montessori preschool in Kovan and my interview went well until my interviewer Mdm Sheela, Director of MMI told me.. "Since you are wearing the hijab if you start working here you have to wear a bandanna to cover your just your hair...Because we have many incidents where chinese parents are afraid to handover their kids to a staff who is wearing hijab. kids get scared too."

To clarify, 6 employees out of 9 are Muslim and 3 wearing the hijab. Our food is cooked by a Muslim wearing a hijab, our food is halal. We have Muslims, Indians and Chinese working here with different religions as well. The person who came for the interview and complained on this matter left a job after 1 month and another with a child care centre after 3 months and reason being ,she cant take the children’s noise.

Sometimes I wonder if it is good for Malays to take job hiring issues into the public because while they might get that company into the negative spotlight but the end consequences are it might cause a lot more bosses/companies out there to view the Malay Muslim community who use religious issues as a threat to force them to hire them and over time this might cause people to view Muslim people as too troublesome to hire. I write because I am worried for you and I don't know whether taking this course of action will end up helping the Malay community or harming themselves instead.

”Oh, your mom wears the hijab right? I don’t want this place to have muslim people , later they will think this is a Muslim student care and that won’t look good for our centre.” And she mentioned after that, that they’re finding for a Chinese teacher. Racist. Racist. Racist. The centre name is OUT OF THE BOX KID’S CLUB.

Our reader has sent us his request for help after enduring countless rejections from employers who do not wish to hire him because he did not complete his National Service (NS). Is anyone out there willing to help him?

According to netizens, Pinoy food chain LechonSG has received a censure from the authorities over discriminatory advertisements for job vacancies targeting Pinoys only. The Pinoy director of the chain, Mr Michael Riff Vesil, was forced to apologize publicly for posting discriminatory hiring ads online on Facebook and popular Singapore-based Pinoy forum PinoySG.

To the girl in ethics class that felt that we the LGBT community should "move else where" as biases will always exist and we will always be discriminated. I would just like to tell you, we are not trying to make Singapore to like us or agree with our love preference, sexual preference or our gender identity. We just hope that Singapore will at least give us the due protection we need to make sure we will not be given up on a career opportunity or to be bullied by other people for that matter.

We need an explanation why Mcdonalds indicated a criteria for "Chinese and Malay only" for a concept and product taste test without any explanation whatsoever. Are they being racist? Is the food product only for Malay or Chinese consumption?

Saw a (Daiso) ad for Weekend part time cashier job. Happily went down for interview, fill in the Application form, and waited. Minutes later, was called into the interview room and were told that for sales and cashiering job, TUDUNG IS NOT ALLOWED…

I cannot understand why these foreign spouses of Singaporeans are not granted the same long term visit passes as the spouses of foreigners who are granted e-pass to work in Singapore. This practice seems to discriminate against Singaporeans who have served National Service! Why are they treated worse than the foreigners on e-pass?