Time to review sick leave benefit in employment act
There is controversy about the company policy on giving sick leave with a medical certificate. Under the current employment act, the employer has to give 12 days of sick leave with pay, but with a medical certificate. This is a practice that existed for several decades. It is subject to abuse. Some workers know where they can...
A stupid points system devised by a not-so-talented Manpower Minister?
I refer to the article 'New points system for Employment Pass applicants from September 2023' (CNA, 4 Mar) Comment: Don't you find it rather strange that the new system would only take effect in another 1.5 years' time when the computation is, arguably, quite straightforward? Would this mean that a company wishing to hire a...
PAP’s catch-up in policy formulation
Even before I had entered politics when I was still teaching at NUS, I had been calling out the harm that streaming does to children and education system. Since then, SDP has repeatedly called for the practice to be scrapped: “Under the SDP’s education plan…students entering secondary school will not be streamed. 30 years...
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