THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has revoked the licences of 15 employment agencies (EAs) so far this year for various infringements, and forfeited their security deposits.
Last year, 11 agencies lost their licences.The licensees and directors of the revoked agencies have also been barred from holding EA licences and key appointment in other agencies, said a statement from MOM on Tuesday morning.
The infringements ranged from illegal employment of foreigners, making false declarations in work permit applications and abetting operations of unlicensed employment agencies and agents.
MOM also did not renew the licences of 17 EAs, compared to 14 non-renewals from 2006 to 2009, because of the agencies had made false declarations in work pass applications and acted as proxies for agents barred from holding a licence.
MOM added that the new EA regulatory framework that will kick in next year would give the ministry greater legislative authority to take rogue agents to task and raise the standards of the EA industry.
A list of licensed employment agencies as well as other important regulatory information can be found on the Ministry's website at www.mom.gov.sg.
They acted like 10 years late? lol.....wtf better late than never.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1093760/1/.html
The link above.
I think the authorities should continue to monitor such trend lately i think the services of some recruitment agencies really is getting from bad to worse. in fact due to soime of the recuiters unprofessional ways they are in fact a barrier between employers and job applicants. this also results in continued umemployment of sgreans in spore. companies should look into expanding their HR department in hiring proper HR people when they emphasize on recruiting the right candidate instead of like some recruitment agency hire just for one asking for higher pay only. after all they don;t care how cock up their candidate can be if the candidate stays in a job their copany client pay them if they don;t the candidate pays the recruiter heads they win tails you lose.
worse i think some recruitment agencies hire floor traps. they speak mainland chinese and india englisch pinoy englisch OMG my god i wonder how safe our resume and personal details gonna be!