Over the past three years, about 50 employers a year in Singapore have had their work pass privileges suspended for discriminatory hiring practices. About 60% of these cases each year involved nationality-based discrimination, reports Channel News Asia, citing data from Minister of State for Manpower Gan Siow Huang.  Another one-third involved gender and age discrimination, split about equally between the two, while the remaining cases involved other types of discrimination, like race, marital status or family responsibilities. Huang said the ministry will consider publishing these statistics regularly if it would help in shaping public opinion of the situation on the ground, and push employers towards fair employment practices. Meanwhile, the percentage of local job seekers who perceived discrimination during their job search process has increased between 2014 and 2018. The ministry also issued an average of 40 warnings a year to employers for less severe breaches, such as lapses in HR practices that resulted in miscommunication and discrimination in the recruitment process. Huang added that employment agencies that accumulate demerit points for breaches can have their licence suspended or revoked.