PHV Driver by Day, Supermum by Night

PHV driver

We spoke with Angeline, a private hire vehicle (PHV) driver with Grab for over 3 years, to find out more about the demands of the freelancer industry and how she balances her time. Angeline started out driving for the JustGrab service where she worked 2 years before moving on to drive for GrabPremium.  Her day […]

Singapore’s Food Delivery Riders: Who’s Fighting for Them, Really?

grab riders

When Circuit Breaker kicked in on 7 April 2020, the rules were fairly straightforward with regard to dining in: we couldn’t dine in. Everything from fine-dining restaurants and hawker centres to cafes and bubble tea stores were strictly limited to deliveries and takeaways only. While this posed at least some inconvenience for everyday Singaporeans like […]

Demystifying Help Schemes for Lower-wage Workers

cleaner at hawker centre

Every year, large sums from the Singapore annual Budget are set aside to support social spending in order to increase social mobility and help uplift those from low-income households. Lower wage workers have always been a vulnerable group that the Government has paid attention to. In case you missed this year’s National Day Rally speech, […]

Doing right by our lower-wage workers: It’s a whole-of-nation effort!

Zaqy Mohamad with cleaners

Can you imagine if all essential work such as waste management and cleaning services stopped for a day? I can’t. The Covid-19 pandemic has cast the spotlight on our essential workers. Our essential workers provide services that are indispensable to most of us but often they do not get the respect and recognition they deserve! […]

Thank you, AUPDRW: No more daily-rated workers in public sector!

Brother G. Muthukumarasamy

The Amalgamated Union of Public Daily Rated Workers (AUPDRW) has faithfully served daily-rated workers in the public sector for almost three decades through various programmes and initiatives. It began its process of dissolution in June 2021. Previously, these workers were paid based on the number of days they worked in a month. Now they have […]

Good news – Singapore’s GDP grew 14.7% in Q2 2021!

Marina Bay

Good news from the Ministry of Trade & Industry! The performance of the Singapore economy for the first half of 2021 was “stronger than expected”. The full-year gross domestic product (GDP) forecast is also upgraded to between 6.0 and 7.0 per cent. With our vaccination programme on track, Singapore’s economy is expected to continue to […]

Women in the workplace – Do employers see them as assets?

NTUC

While women have traditionally taken on caregiving roles, steps towards making the workforce more inclusive have allowed more women to balance both their families responsibilities. The Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP) has urged organisations to adopt a fair and merit-based approach to employment –  disallowing job advertisements to state gender as […]

Through The Eyes of SIEU Union Leader, Luke Hee

Luke Hee

Despite Luke’s relatively youthful looks, this Union Leader has been with Singapore Insurance Employees’ Union (SIEU) since Jan 2000. Having served about 13 years as Deputy General Secretary and later took over as General Secretary of the SIEU in January 2013 to present, Luke is now a member of the NTUC Central Committee — the […]

MP Yeo Wan Ling: “Women Have Once Again Risen to The Occasion”

yeo wan ling with women workers

Labour MP, Yeo Wan Ling shared in a Ministerial Statement earlier this year that she once met with a rather distraught constituent who was very stressed out about managing her caregiving responsibilities at home. This lady’s husband suffers from OCD and she has three young ones with the youngest one being a child with special […]