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Taking employers to task for discrimination: How easy is the legal process?
Workplace fairness laws can be cumbersome and legal recourse for employees difficult.
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Singapore has passed new laws aimed at strengthening workplace fairness, but how they are implemented also matters.
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Sugidha Nithiananthan and Caitlin C Fernandez
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A TikTok video showing a young man’s experience navigating the Employment Claims Tribunal (ECT) has been viewed more than 120,000 times, prompting comments about how daunting the process can be for employees. The man talks about the lack of information on the ECT process, how tedious preparing for it was, and the length of time the process took.
The video has struck a chord at a time when Singapore has passed new laws aimed at strengthening workplace fairness – laws that now provide avenues for employment discrimination disputes to be resolved through the ECT.
