Bosses pressured pregnant employee to resign
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Bosses pressured pregnant employee to resign
Bosses told her to take a break - which she did not need
When customer service officer Joanne Ho, 33, discovered she was pregnant shortly after joining a well-known tourism-services firm last year, she told her bosses right away.
'I saw no reason to hide the news. I had a new job that I liked and was doing well,' she said, declining to reveal her salary.
But four months into her job, she was not confirmed.
When she asked about it, her bosses suggested she take a break - which she did not need.
But they persisted, putting pressure on her to resign, she said.
'I told them I would not resign because I had done my job well, but they could fire me if they were insistent.'
Her bosses took their time giving her a letter of termination, saying it could affect her career.
When she called the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) to check if she could complain, she was told that a termination letter was necessary.
After hounding the company for nearly a month after leaving work, the letter finally arrived, barely a day before the deadline to complain to MOM expired.
Pregnant women who feel they have been unfairly dismissed should file their complaints with the ministry within one month of their notification of dismissal for the ministry to take up their case.
During investigations by MOM, the company said that Ms Ho was not good at her job and did not improve despite being told verbally that her probation was being extended.
They repeated that when contacted by The Sunday Times.
But MOM found that the company failed to substantiate its claim that Ms Ho's performance was unsatisfactory and ordered it to pay her four months' salary as compensation.
The case dragged for nearly a year, partly because the company postponed appointments.
Now the mother of a one-year-old son, she insisted that there were no performance issues whatsoever.
She had e-mail from former clients praising her work, which she submitted to MOM.
She added that her immediate supervisor was also happy with her work.
'What I faced was bullying and sheer injustice,' said the housewife, who hopes to re-enter the workforce next year.
'And I fought not because I could get some money, but because I had done nothing wrong.'
Source: http://www.asiaone.com/Business/Offi...09-178803.html -
isnt it within the rights of employers not to confirm a worker, for whatever reason?
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that the way to go Joanne, keep it up,you sure supported by alot of people.
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Originally posted by dragg:
isnt it within the rights of employers not to confirm a worker, for whatever reason?
Yes. If the worker is not meeting the requirement or standards, For this case, we can clearly see that the employer is being irresponsible and taking the easy way out.
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actually if it's a probation, it means that they can just don't confirm her? Need to terminate meh?
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Welcome to Singapore.
There are no workers' union in Singapore.
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First post! Anyway, the link to your post is not working.
This is a very good case study for my assignment on discrimination of pregant ladies for my diversity module.Is there any way for me to contact the woman involved in the issue?
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Originally posted by Komenos:
First post! Anyway, the link to your post is not working.
This is a very good case study for my assignment on discrimination of pregant ladies for my diversity module.Is there any way for me to contact the woman involved in the issue?
Try contacting ST.
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what shitty company is this? care to reveal? shame on this company
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sexpose them! post the company name!
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company will use any reason to terminate the employee as long as they don't need to pay you. I have also been to a company which i work less than a mth than the boss tell me to leave because he think that i am not the right person for the job. The boss did not talk to me at all than tell my manager to ask me go because of this reason. if a company really want to terminate you they have a lot of reason to use. most of the local company do that. so why not post out the company name or address.
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Wah, so unfair, curse the employers' children born with no ass
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take out the baby and tell the baby to point middle finger at the employer before putting the baby back to the womb