Know Your Rights
In the Workplace
Your culture, values and beliefs matter,
and you are protected from workplace discrimination.
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For Discrimination at the Workplace
For Employees
Does your workplace respect your culture, values and beliefs?
Do you know how TAFEP’s guidelines protect you?
Do you know how to report viewpoint discrimination?
Are You Facing Discrimination?
Discrimination Checklist
Here are 8 unacceptable workplace practices to look out for.
Discrimination Case Studies
Here are documented client stories and our insights.
Government Assurances
“Workplaces should be part of the secular space shared by all Singaporeans. They should not be places where people are compelled or pressured to participate in, or support, non-business related causes. Employees should not be discriminated against at work just because they hold traditional family values, or pro LGBT values.” ~ Minister Shanmugam
DEI is Going Sideways
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has taken a wrong turn, with far reaching consequences.
Global Activist Pressure to Favour Certain Affinity Groups
Powerful activist groups and international organisations show partiality to certain identities and political viewpoints and demand companies to enforce political views in the workplace.
Foreign Governments Intervening in Local Affairs
Foreign governments may pressure their companies to adopt controversial DEI policies that undermine the host country’s cultural values.
Pressure to Conform to Homogenous Values
DEI efforts may create an expectation of uniformity in values, potentially marginalising individuals with differing beliefs. Instead of promoting viewpoint diversity, DEI might impose homogenous values upon employees.
Discrimination against Companies with Different Values by Harming Investability
Rating agencies conflate sustainability with other political causes when evaluating company ESG scores. Companies that do not adopt politically controversial ideologies might suffer in their sustainability ratings.
Contradictory Policies Marginalise the People DEI Originally Intended to Support
When DEI becomes conflated with controversial politics, the result backfires and erases years of progress. True inclusion must recognise definitions of identity groups to protect justice and fairness.
Misplaced Diversity Policies Harms Service Quality, Safety & Justice
When DEI policies supersede the competencies needed in the hiring process, not only does this look patronising, it compromises the work quality of critical services.
In The News
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Singapore Company Pushes Non-Binary Gender Disclosures
The inclusion of a “non-binary” category in SingPost’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Policy for the fiscal year 2022–23 aims to “promote greater inclusiveness.” However, SingPost has not disclosed the rationale behind this decision, leaving us to speculate.
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MIT Rolls Back DEI Hiring Policies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has dropped DEI policies for enforcing ideological litmus tests as hiring requirements. Applicants have previously been screened according to their personal statement of support for including various identity groups, including ideological identities.
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Bloomberg Reports Companies’ DEI Policies Backfire
Bloomberg reports that companies are increasingly undoing their DEI policies after facing backlash for reverse discrimination and indoctrination. Affirmative action has increasingly seen as inherently discriminatory against identity groups that are left out of the equation.
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