Tag Archives: Work

An AMDL dared all foreign workers in Singapore to go on strike to see if our country can function without them. She was angry at some people for having anti-foreigner sentiments and commented on FB for all FT to stop work for a week. “I vote all foreign workers to …

However, this does not apply to University students, as they will still be charged with adult fares which costs up to $1.48 for an average journey of 10 km. This does sound a tad bit unfair, as University students are still students, just like the polytechnic students. They don't hold full time jobs, and thus, have no steady income to pay for the increase. In light of this, three undergraduates started a petition to appeal for university students to receive the same rights.

PM Lee did not surprise anyone when he said he does not know what 377A's exact wording was, but emphasised that everyone, no matter their sexual orientation, are welcome to work in Singapore. Although he did say that the 377A will not be removed, he did say that everyone knows the rules in Singapore, and it should not stop them from coming over to work.

According to a survey by health service company Cigna had indicated what many Singaporeans have known, that they are the most stressed workers in the whole world, and are very sleep deprived. In the survey, nearly 92% of the Singaporeans surveyed said that they were stressed from work, and 13% of this group of workers said their stress was unimaginable.

Mount Elizabeth Hospital clarified that the water leak from its roof was not due to a collapse but a burst sprinkler head, which caused ceiling boards to come off. It assured people that the ceiling has been restored.

Our reader claimed she saw Singapore Power staff using a supermarket trolley for items for their maintenance works. Is this even allowed?

It states that “It found that employee engagement here has declined consistently over the past three years, in stark contrast to the upward trend observed across the globe.

I've been working in this company for 2 years & in my mid forties with 20+ years working experiences. Just last week, I found myself having to "justify my worth" to my company after they hired a young Indian (exact same designation as myself with 3 years working experience in India & never work in SG)

Not one of us thinks the elderly aunties or uncles, who work selling tissues at hawker centers, or collecting cardboard and pushing their trolleys full of cardboard on the roads are actually working because they want to alleviate their boredom, or, in the words of a famous person here, for exercise. Only our Ministers think the elderly work and carried on working way past their retirement age, because they want to. This is just their way of telling Singaporeans that the problems they all talked about, are actually not problems. We just make it an issue. Nonsense! Why would these elderly folks continue to work when they could not even walk that fast anymore? They would rather be somewhere relaxing, enjoying the fruits of their youthful labour, enjoying the retirement money they had worked so hard for all those years ago. Except, there are no retirement money, and there is no relaxing to be had. To be able to eke out a living in Singapore, one has to work until one cannot walk anymore.

The Straits Times weather report is all the rage among Singaporean netizens these days, all thanks to a newly hired weather intern whose epigrammatic tweets have lightened many a stormy weather. According to a netizen, who provided a number of screenshots showcasing the new weatherman's tweets, ST tweets began taking on a quirky, punny character that seemed at odds with the usual "boring" style of the national newspaper.