TR EMERITUS

Reading much online comment recently on the trouble of SME’s finding workers. I can sympathise with their plight because they labour under heavy bureaucracy and an extractive regime that loads them with unnecessary and high costs while suppressing what they can earn leaving them trapped in to offering the same pathetic wages... 

F&B operator GD Group, which operates the Penang Culture chain of restaurants, was fined $94,500 for successfully getting the Manpower Ministry (MOM) to issue 20 Employment Passes (EPs) for its foreign staff when they were actually paid between $1,500 and $2,200 only. The tricks that GD Group employed was a very simple and... 

Click to enlarge (1) It tells this elderly Singaporean that he can receive his CPF retirement payout from 65. (2) But it then says: "No action is required if you wish to start your payouts at age 70." (3) Which means that he cannot receive his payout at 65 unless he applies to do so, which they then say he has to do. (4) If...