Employment agency fined S$78,000 after uploading insensitive maid ads on Carousell

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SINGAPORE: Employment agency SRC Recruitment was fined S$78,000 on Tuesday (Apr 30) after uploading insensitive advertisements of foreign domestic ...

became the first to be prosecuted and convicted in November 2018 for putting up the posts on the online selling site.

MOM had sent three alerts to employment firms in July 2014, November 2016 and February 2018 about the licence condition on responsible advertising. Despite the reminders, SRC failed to "exercise sensitivity" when marketing its services and breached the licence condition, the ministry said. "MOM does not condone any offensive and insensitive advertising methods that portray foreign domestic workers in a negative light," the Commissioner for Employment Agencies Kevin Teoh said.

"We remind all employment agencies of the need to uphold professional standards when discharging their duties. MOM will not hesitate to take stern enforcement actions, including licence revocation, against errant EAs."

 

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