Posts Tagged ‘compensation’
Put yourself in employer’s shoes (Today 17 Nov)
Put yourself in employer's shoes 05:55 AM Nov 17, 2009 Letter from Chin Kee Thou RECENTLY, media reports and letters to the press on the contentious issue of pregnant workers being laid off without equitable compensation or non-confirmation [...]
Working less now to work longer later (Sunday Times 15 Nov)
Shefali Rekhi Working five days a week and retiring in your 60s is the norm in many societies. But leading researchers of life expectancy at the Ageing Research Centre of the University of Southern Denmark are calling for a change. A study [...]
Pregnant? You’re fired (Sunday Times 8 Nov)
Some women said they were sacked under the pretence of poor performance or other work-related issues. -- ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW The tough economic times - and more generous maternity benefits - appear to be prompting increasing numbers of firms [...]
Executive compensation: Busting those myths (ST 20 Oct)
Oct 20, 2009 ECONOMIC WATCH Executive compensation: Busting those myths By Richard D. Arvey, For The Straits Times EXECUTIVE pay has hit the headlines again, especially the huge salaries and bonuses being given in the financial [...]
Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners To Turn To Shelters (New York Times 18 Oct)
Sheri West operated a shelter for homeless people, but last year she lost her home in Cleveland and had to sleep in her car. By PETER S. GOODMAN Published: October 18, 2009 CLEVELAND — The first night after she surrendered her house to [...]
More than 100,000 employers to receive $890 million (Asiaone 22 Sep)
More than 100,000 employers to receive $890 million Tue, Sep 22, 2009 AsiaOne More than 100,000 employers, with whom about 1.4 million local workers are employed, will receive $890 million from the third payment of Jobs Credit on September [...]
She quit job as secretary to be a cabby (Asiaone 18 Sep)
She quit job as secretary to be a cabby For the sake of her three children, she switched jobs from being a secretary to a taxi driver. Her husband complimented her career move by becoming a taxi driver himself and they even became partners at [...]
Job interview cues that say “hire me” (New York Times 21 Sep)
Sep 21, 2009 WORKING LIFE Job interview cues that say 'hire me' No set rules but courtesy and common sense give applicants the edge NEW YORK: It is always fun to hear hiring managers recall the most boneheaded mistakes they have seen job [...]
How working parents can find jobs in a Recession (Business Week 16 Sep)
How Working Parents Can Find Jobs In a Recession Posted by: Lauren Young on September 16 Even if the recession is over, the outlook for job seekers remains bleak. I asked Tory Johnson (pictured here), who is chief executive officer of Women [...]
What it takes for foreigners to integrate in Singapore (Sunday Times 20 Sep)
What it takes for foreigners to integrate in S'pore By Radha Basu, Senior Correspondent At an in-house course a couple of months ago, a colleague voiced her deep apprehension about being crowded out of her 'own backyard'. At MRT stations and [...]
Email from a Singaporean PR (15 Sep)
I want to discuss the matter relating to foreign professional in Singapore. It seemed that local university students tend to face tougher competition once they graduate especially during this present recession. Some of the foreign [...]
The jobs that ate a family (The Daily Telegraph 19 Sep)
Gradma Di, left, daughter India, 11, mum Melissa Blackley, daughter Holly, 8, and dad John Anderson at home / John Fotiadis SYDNEY mother-of-two Melissa Blackley is so obsessed with work that she doesn't know what her children eat for lunch and [...]
A Romance Writer Jabs at Singapore’s Patriarchs (New York Times 19 Sep)
Catherine Lim at her home in Singapore. By SETH MYDANS Published: September 18, 2009 Singapore IT is the dress, she said, that catches the eye, the long silk sheath with the slits in the sides that offers what she calls “a startling [...]
Cut dependence on foreign labour (My paper 18 Sep)
IT MUST be tough for the authorities to figure out a suitable manpower-deployment system, especially with regard to the complex issue of local businesses hiring foreign workers to increase their profits. Singapore citizens find it difficult to [...]
Tips for Parents (Touching Lives)
Tips for Parents Did you read the report of the 9-year-old who was killed in an accident on her way to school (The Straits Times,16 Sept 2009)? What added to the sadness was the father’s statement that “There are so many things I haven’t [...]
