TR EMERITUS

Why doesn’t MOM release the names of companies guilty of discriminatory hiring practices? After all, like NTUC Assistant Secretary General, Patrick Tay says, doing so “may be a good deterrent to employers who want to flout the rules.” Perhaps Singapore wants to maintain its business-friendly policy and doesn’t want... 

I welcome the news that the government will raise the salary criterias for Employment Passes and S Passes. Such a decision will make employing "locals" more attractive at least on paper, however, I feel that the government could have done better to also further differentiate "locals" too, ie, between Singaporeans and permanent... 

This is why I advocate for the Nordic model in Singapore. "There are good reasons to back such universal programs. All social policy, as the noted welfare-state scholar Gøsta Esping-Andersen argues, either reinforces or removes class stratifications. A welfare regime based on means-testing and income targeting does the former;...