Last year during his National Day Rally (NDR) 2021 speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that Singapore will be codifying workplace anti-discrimination legislation through enshrining the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices…
The following is the first in our Explainer series where we provide an explainer on disability discrimination and reasonable accommodations in employment in the Singapore context.
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DPA submitted an updated Parallel Report to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)Committee in July 2022. This was done so that the Commitee could hear from the disability…
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