If you are a Singaporean non-Chinese who cannot speak Chinese
dialects, then this is one job that you cannot apply through no
fault of yours. So, in that sense, it is discriminatory..
I will said, there is an indepth purpose within the job scope
rather than racial discrimination,
Cdg have already got sufficient malay and indians staff to
handle Malay and Indian drivers, what they are facing is those old
uncles who are in a way, whereby report are concerned,
are more fluent in their dialects, and therefore the scope
required that type of personnel that fit it, and it does not imply
that if a malay or indian who can speak hokkien is ineligible? Some
malay and indian friend of mine can speak cantonese and hokkien
better than me, knn.
Simply put it, it is more of the job scope requirement.
We take another example, if a boss need a fluent
bahasa malayu speaking salesman to market his product in
malaysia, indonesia and singapore, careless if chinese, malay or
indian or others, as long as you can speak malayu, you are a
potiential candidates, and by stating it on the requirement, at
least it can filter off those who are unable to speak malay.
