15 percent of companies do not offer re-employment for older
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15 percent of companies do not offer re-employment for older workers
TEMASEK REVIEW
Despite repeated attempts by the PAP to get companies to re-employ Singapore workers when they reached the mandatory retirement age of 62, some 15 percent of companies interviewed in a survey conducted by the Manpower Ministry still refuse to do so.
The most common reason given is the lack of “suitable” jobs followed by poor work attitude and inability to keep up with changes.
Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong was quick to jump to the defence of these companies:
“Some of these companies have not put in place these re-employment practices partly because they still have a very young work force. Some of them are small companies that just started up so their workforce is still very young and they have not thought about it. Some of them have not put in place these re-employment (practices) because they were restructuring. They do not have opportunities for these older workers,” he was quoted as saying in Channel News Asia.
With the inevitable aging of the Singapore labor force, the PAP is trying desperately hard to retain as many elderly Singaporeans in the workforce as possible to lessen the burden for the state.
Singaporeans are constantly being exhorted by PAP leaders to work for as long as they can while remaining “cheaper, better and faster” at the same time.
There are no labor laws put in place requiring companies to re-hire Singaporeans. As such, employees are at the complete mercy of their employers.
Neither are there independent trade unions to fight for the interests of these workers. The only legal trade union in Singapore NTUC is a pseudo-PAP organization which is always led by a PAP minister.
Though Singapore is the second richest country in Asia after Japan, its citizens enjoy few social welfare benefits from the government.
A growing number of Singaporeans will need to work well beyond their retirement ages to support themselves because they simply do not have sufficient savings in the bank or CPF to depend on.
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To be frank and with all due respect to the old peoples, given a choice, which employers would want to employ old peoples???
Old peoples are
1. medicate prone
2. arguemental
3. slow and forgetful
4. three days wind, 2 days rain attitude
5. talkative and prone to talk more on their young times heroics movement
6. lack of motivation due to twilight years career
7. old.
As a upfront service organisation, faces do bring business, peoples like us running pub, nightclub, disco, frontdesk, etc etc..how to employ old ones...people see already also dun want to patronise me
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Originally posted by angel7030:
To be frank and with all due respect to the old peoples, given a choice, which employers would want to employ old peoples???
Old peoples are
1. medicate prone
2. arguemental
3. slow and forgetful
4. three days wind, 2 days rain attitude
5. talkative and prone to talk more on their young times heroics movement
6. lack of motivation due to twilight years career
7. old.
As a upfront service organisation, faces do bring business, peoples like us running pub, nightclub, disco, frontdesk, etc etc..how to employ old ones...people see already also dun want to patronise me
To be frank you are heng to be born with a silver spoon stone nun
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Yah old ppl are in an disadvantage when it comes to workforce employment.
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I want to see how the government cross train the eldery engineers to become medical doctors.
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i just want ask all of you to put yourself into a boss shoes, ask yourself frankly, you prefer young or old workers?
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Originally posted by angel7030:
i just want ask all of you to put yourself into a boss shoes, ask yourself frankly, you prefer young or old workers?
for your pub, super hard to find young local galsso you had to hire young, foreign gals
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Originally posted by CheckmateA1:
for your pub, super hard to find young local galsso you had to hire young, foreign gals
who said, if you paid the right amount, you get local girls too, but local girls wants to act foreign, because they dun want to expose themselve too much here, so they use chinese names or talk like chinese who knows english..you must understand locals working here also got lots of relatives and friends in Singapore, if one saw her, she will be reprimanded back home or by friends.There are singapore and foreigner guys looking for good english speaking gals, and local gals is the best...at a premium price.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
who said, if you paid the right amount, you get local girls too, but local girls wants to act foreign, because they dun want to expose themselve too much here, so they use chinese names or talk like chinese who knows english..you must understand locals working here also got lots of relatives and friends in Singapore, if one saw her, she will be reprimanded back home or by friends.There are singapore and foreigner guys looking for good english speaking gals, and local gals is the best...at a premium price.
i said cannot is it
so the local gals became high class social escorts understand or not nun
like that they are able to command more money
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do u see alot of old workers in civil service ??
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And ever wondered why these old people has to work even after 62?Because there is no social security system.
Solve it by employing them.Very chinese way to solve it.Kudos!
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its time to get rid of the ceos and ministers.
they are all very old already.
haha...
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Originally posted by angel7030:
To be frank and with all due respect to the old peoples, given a choice, which employers would want to employ old peoples???
Old peoples are
1. medicate prone
2. arguemental
3. slow and forgetful
4. three days wind, 2 days rain attitude
5. talkative and prone to talk more on their young times heroics movement
6. lack of motivation due to twilight years career
7. old.
As a upfront service organisation, faces do bring business, peoples like us running pub, nightclub, disco, frontdesk, etc etc..how to employ old ones...people see already also dun want to patronise me
You have better pray hard you will not grow old. If you old no man wants to patronize you, no man wants old prostitute.