S’pore one of ten most pessimistic countries
According to a poll published by Gallup on 18 July 2013 [Link], Singapore is among the ten most pessimistic countries in the world. Nearly 1 in 4 Singaporeans expect their lives in 5 years time to be worse than presently. Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults per country, aged...
Ex-director misappropriated workers’ salary causing a labour strike
A former director and shareholder of Vigour Technologies (www.vigourtech.com), Tan Kim Wah, 53, misappropriated more than $233,000 of his workers' salary and caused a strike in August 2011. Tan was convicted and sentenced to 18 months' jail by a district court on 12 July 2013. He could have been jailed up to 7 years and fined. He...
More PMETs now hired on contract
More PMETs (i.e. professionals, managers, executives and technicians) are now being hired on contract instead of being employed on a full-time basis, according to figures from the Ministry of Manpower showing that some 70,000 PMETs were hired on contracts last year, up from 67,000 the year before in 2011. The contract period...
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