Who should advertise on the Jobs Bank?

Employment Pass – advertising requirements under the Fair Consideration Framework

Employers are expected to provide fair consideration for all job positions. Employer must advertise on the Jobs Bank for at least 14 calendar days unless MOM has explicitly exempted the company or job from this requirement. 

Jobs that are exempted from the advertising requirement:

For practical reasons, you are exempted from the Jobs Bank advertising requirement in any of these cases:

• Your company has fewer than 10 employees.
• Currently (With effect from 01-May-2020), the job position is paying a fixed monthly salary of $20,000 and above
• The job is to be filled by an intra-corporate transferee (ICTs) as defined under the World Trade Organisation’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (WTO GAS), ICTs refer to those holding senior positions in the organisation or have an advanced level of expertise.
• The job is necessary for short-term contingencies (i.e., period of employment in Singapore for not more than one month).

All companies are strongly encouraged to advertise their job vacancies on the Jobs Bank for access to a larger pool of candidates, even if those jobs are eligible for advertising exemption. All companies are expected to have fair employment practices that are open, merit-based and non-discriminatory, even if the job vacancies are exempted from advertising.

Any company found to have nationality-based or other discriminatory HR practices will face scrutiny from MOM and have their work pass privileges curtailed.

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