‘Highlights’ Archives
5 Reasons Why Workers’ Party May Not Win Punggol East By-Election
Some Singaporeans must be pinching themselves to find out if they are really voting again - not twice but three times. Many friends have told me that they could not believe having to vote twice within a six-month period - in the recent General [...]
Workers’ Party Yaw and PAP’s Palmer – Who is the Better Culprit?
The year 2012 opened with a bang when Workers' Party Yaw Shin Leong fled from the country and his constituents at Hougang as news of his marital infidelity appeared on TRE - a online socio-political blog. Michael Palmer now ended the year the [...]
The Michael Palmer scandal – politics and sex don’t mix well
Just when everyone is trying to enjoy some festive peace during the year-end season, PAP drops a bombshell and announced that Mr Michael Palmer, MP for Punggol East SMC has resigned due to a sex scandal. Michael Palmer must have been the first [...]
Boycott our ineffective NTUC union – cancel your membership fees now!
Transitioning is starting a campaign to boycott our ineffective NTUC union and asking our readers who are NTUC members to cancel their membership with immediate effect. The monthly membership fee is $9 a month from Jan-Nov and the December [...]
Jobless lady PMET approached MOM for unfair dismissal without avail
Transitioning continues to receive emails from the local workforce complaining about unfair dismissal. To date, over the past years, we have received close to a hundred emails on such work place injustice which no government agency can really [...]
Aggrieved employee on medical leave asks to return to work and getting bullied
Hello Gilbert, I am in need of advice urgently and hope to hear your view. I am currently working as operation manager in a small local company and pretty much under paid. I have been on hospitalization leave because of an injury [...]
Jobless young fine arts honours graduate feeling the blues
Dear Gilbert, I held a Fine Arts degree with Honours from an art school in Singapore, with one year of work experience doing various tasks ranging from assisting graphic designers, being a photographer to administrative stuff in the media [...]
Aftermath of PRC Chinese SMRT Strike – Who is to be Blamed?
Latest: 5th PRC Chinese driver charged sentenced to 6 weeks' jail. As the dust settled for the first illegal industrial strike here in 26 years - ironically conducted by foreign workers - Singaporeans are left wondering if there will be [...]
Will you put your ailing mum in a nursing home?
orange grove changi I walked past the old building of Orange Grove Nursing Home off Loyang Avenue amidst a darkening sky that threatened to rain. I went there with a heavy heart as I knew that mum does not like us to place her in a nursing [...]
5 Lessons to Learn from the PRC Chinese SMRT Strike
Latest: Police has arrested four PRC Chinese drivers for illegal strike. In the midst of a unusually rainy wet festive November month, Singapore was hit with a bombshell when 170 PRC Chinese bus captains conducted an illegal strike two days [...]
PRC Chinese SMRT Strike: Tweak tripartite movement to be more representative of workers
IT IS disturbing to know that foreign workers on work permits here took the law into their own hands ("102 SMRT bus drivers protest against pay"; yesterday). One also wonders whether they have a proper channel to seek redress when they [...]
Jobless PMET feeling depressed and suicidal after leaving corporate job for career switch
Hi Gilbert, Just needed to talk to someone about it online - I'm in a very depressed state and overcoming suicide tendencies due to an unemployment situation. You know, the suicidal thought has been in my mind for months and sometimes my HDB [...]
Evaluation on entrepreneurship forum on 26 Nov 2012
Transitioning readers were treated with a fine feast of valuable information and motivational stuff when four of our speakers for the entrepreneurship event - Mr Patrick Cheo, Mr Mark Tan, Mr Leong Sze Hian and Mr Tan Chin Kar came out to share from [...]
Heart-attack victim gave up cab driving and advocated for better work conditions for cabbie
Transitioning: Thanks Mark for agreeing to complete this questionaire on the rising healthcare cost in Singapore, can you first let us know abit about yourself, e.g. your age, marital status and occupation? Age : 46 years old, married with 2 [...]
General manager unfairly dismissed and seeking legal advice
We have recently received alot of emails from readers who were unfairly dismissed from their jobs. Some of the letters are posted on this blog site. Singapore is one unique first world economy which practises third world labour legislation [...]
