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- The Bilingual Policy & Its Victims
- Potong Pasir Town Council rebuts ST report
- On medical leave and the employee
Well, contrary to what Cowboy Caleb wrote, it doesn’t make me want to pack up and join the army (eww) but I do empathise with what he went through.
“NUH has been lauded in local papers for practising what is known as responsible outsourcing aka don’t take advantage of low-wage workers. Although the government is sticky on implementing a minimum wage law, it didn’t stop NUH from stipulating a minimum wage when it tendered out its cleaning contract; and awarding it to a company that bothers to upgrade their low-wage workers.”
“But the biggest problem with the bilingual policy was not the way the Chinese language (or for that matter, the English language) was taught in schools.
The biggest problem was the government’s rigid insistence (that lasted for many years) that a student who wished to progress to the next higher stage of education would have to pass both English and Chinese – entirely regardless of what he wanted to study, at the next stage.”
“After the last election, the Potong Pasir Town Council has work (sic) hard to implement various upgrading programs to enhance the whole of Potong Pasir, bringing residents many benefits and more convenience.”
“The attitude adopted by the majority of companies in Singapore is markedly different. The employee is required to go to a doctor to obtain a medical certificate as proof of his or her sickness, even for just 1 day of rest. Otherwise, medical leave will not be granted, and the employee’s absence will be considered as unauthorised, with the consequences that the absence will be deducted from his or her annual leave or salary, and possibly, disciplinary action taken.
Why do employers in Singapore treat their employees in this way?”