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Am helping my dad to look for a job. He is 60 and looking for a driver job. Low qualification and quite hard to find a job at his age. Heard govt encourage elderly to be in the workforce but dunno why so hard to find job. Almost impossible

our current maid is from phillippines. but my mum wants to change to a burmese one as their salary is lower.($375 vs $450 for indo+filipino) is it a good choice? anyone here hired one before? also, my grandma is not keen on indonesian as they have dietary restrictions. why we are sending this current maid home after 3 years is coz she cant cook a proper meal at home. so now how?

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I guess the title is already self explainatory. This is being brought up in light of the news that the Ministry of manpower particularly when the Minister of State Tan Chuan-Jin evoke a law and took to task a company for their discriminatory nature of the company's advertisement in recuritment. Let's face it. If any company wants to employ certain type of ppl which they so seek, they could still do it at ANY point of the recuritment. The Bosses could seive thru those they want based on any discriminatory standards they so apply and only employ those they want. Evoking laws of such is totally a moot point. It does not even scrap the surface of the problem and neithier will it address the real issue as to why some or should I say, many companies tend to hire certain type of ppl. This could be race, employment status etc or even how pretty a candidate is! Maybe Mr Tan need to take a self reflection as to why companies in Sinkland became such. Could it becos of the cheap abundance of FTs particularly even those they liberally gave scholarships to , the strong currency, the liberal employment laws where the Boss is KING or locals cost more to employ and job hop or the very working atitude associated with Sinkie etc etc! Let me make an analogy. Know the famous Chinese saying of ..'hanging Goat's head but selling dog meat Well, the companies could jolly well be asking for goats from now in their recuritment ads but actually want dogs as they could be cheaper and more obedient ( they could even catch those that are strays )or dogs work harder and are cheaper to feed, less petty or even more productive and for every Boss , the whole idea about any business is to make more money particularly for himself! Even by evoking such laws, the companies who still perfer certain employees will jolly well execute their selection critieria at the point where they can still pick and choose whoever they want. Sinkland has got a habit that if they don't use methods such as punishing some scrapgoats as example or put up education campaigns again and again, the MIWs don't feel that have gotten the point thru. Maybe the answer has always rest within their own doing and their failure to even recognise this let alone own up to it. So our Ministar Tan is really doing things that are self defeating. Maybe he should first examine the very policies that could make companies want to hire more based on the very merit of the candidates they seek and to undo some policies that seem to hinder or encourage companies NOT to do so. Since I'm not paid a million bucks or more a year I'll leave the thinking and better solutions for Mr Tan to come up with...that is if he is worth his salt and pay check!