Tag Archives: Workplace

A Myanmese worker was denied compensation by his employer despite having a serious workplace injury. He was deceived into thinking that his treatment would be paid for and HOME is currently helping him to file complaints.

A man was arrested by the police at his workplace. He allegedly stole a Samsung S8 and still returned to his office after committing the crime. Innocent much?

Responding to the recent highway collapse near PIE which left 1 dead and 10 injured, Minister for Manpower Lim Swee Say said it was a man-made incident that could be avoided if everyone paid enough attention to workplace safety. DUH.

Fresh from banning internet access from the workplace computers, the government is now telling all civil servants that they can only use USB devices that have been authorised. This new ruling will take into effect on 25 July. Public agencies will tap on a bulk tender which has a list of portable storage devices that meet the Government’s security requirements, and will distribute them to its officers on a “working need basis”

A local bakery was fined $90,000 for having unsafe working conditions that led to the death of one of its employees in 2015. Shella Lee Shin Shin, was working on the production floor on 21 August 2015 when she slipped on the oily and wet floor. Lee was wearing a pair of her own shoes instead of the usual safety shoes.

I was discriminated because I was wearing a hijab, I like to share my unfortunate experience with you. I went for an interview today at one of the modern montessori preschool in Kovan and my interview went well until my interviewer Mdm Sheela, Director of MMI told me.. "Since you are wearing the hijab if you start working here you have to wear a bandanna to cover your just your hair...Because we have many incidents where chinese parents are afraid to handover their kids to a staff who is wearing hijab. kids get scared too."

When I entered the meeting room, my boss had a very black face. I knew I was in trouble. I sat down in the meeting room chair and then she started to scold me already. She said IT department knows that I have been surfing porn at work and that the records are all with her now. She screamed that my behaviour is disgusting and that if she had the decision she would fire me on the spot!