Women in the workplace – Do employers see them as assets?
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
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 […]
Raeesah says Police ‘part of the solution’ after alleging police’s mishandling of rape survivor
Parliament sat on 3rd August and passed a motion to commemorate 200 years of the SPF in Singapore. 69 visitors were present. They included Singapore’s Commissioner of Police Hoong Wee Teck, in-service officers, full-time national servicemen, Volunteer Special Constabulary (VSC) officers, civilian officers, retired police officers and two family members of an officer who was […]
MP Yeo Wan Ling: “Women Have Once Again Risen to The Occasion”
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 […]
River Valley High School tragedy spotlights the importance of mental wellness in youths and workplaces
I remember what it felt like when news first broke of the River Valley High School incident on Monday afternoon. Chat groups were going afire, and I was furiously refreshing the news article for updates. One thing rang loudly in all our minds, “How can such a thing be true? How could it have happened […]
60 years since Chan Choy Siong, PAP Women’s Wing continues its fight for women’s development
In the 1950s, women were second-class citizens. While they had full voting rights by 1955, in many other areas they lagged far behind men. Many were denied education. Husbands could have multiple wives. Jobs were harder to get and, when employed, women were paid less than men. This was unacceptable to Chan Choy Siong and […]
129 students, 17 school staff tested positive for COVID-19 over the last 3 months
Over the last 3 months, 129 students and 17 school staff have tested positive for COVID-19, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said in a Facebook post. This represents 0.03% of our total student population, from Primary to Pre-University levels. Mr Chan said he had received feedback from parents keen on transiting to Full Home-based Learning. […]
The GRC system keeps political parties multiracial. Keep it, not abolish it.
Briefly speaking, the GRC system does two things: Ensure minority representation in Parliament; Ensure political parties are multiracial in composition. Of the two points, the second is lesser known. Most of us understand that the GRC system exists for the purpose of ensuring minority representation in Parliament. But not all agree that the system is […]
Jamus Lim in review on year on: tracing his journey from GE2020
GE2020 saw the Workers’ Party pull another upset on the PAP by winning another GRC, a newly created GRC at that. Jamus Lim with his impressive credentials and accented English, is believed to be the main reason for WP’s win in Sengkang GRC. More than one year on, we look at the impressions Jamus Lim […]
Racial intolerance goes against our founding values as a nation: Chan Chun Sing
Racial intolerance goes against our founding values as a nation, and has no place in our society, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said. The recent spate of racist incidents go against what we stand for in Singapore, he said. In recent days, a man allegedly kicked a 55-year-old Indian Singaporean woman in her chest and […]