Category: Laws of our land

  • Labour Crunch? Park Hotel Group Shows How To Deal With It

    I was introduced to the Park Hotel Group’s HR team last month because they wanted to showcase how they’ve gotten around the labour crunch that many organizations are experiencing, due to new restrictions on foreign labour and other factors. It was the usual litany of woes: not enough Singaporeans want to work as housekeepers, cleaners,…

  • Hardware, Heartware and Headwear

    The Facebook group “Love My Country Love My Hijab” is a discussion we’ve avoided for too long. It’s time we brought it out into the open and be bold but careful in declaring what our principles are as a nation. It seems to me that we parade terms like “multiculturalism” and “racial harmony” while actually…

  • Fixing Low Wages: Buck Also Stops At Employers’

    Out of curiosity, I attended the Ordinary Delegates’ Conference of the National Trades Union Congress at Far Far Away Country Club (Orchid Country Club) on Tuesday. As with many things to do with Singapore, there’s little pomp and ceremony to do with these things if you were to compare with our neighbouring countries: it is…

  • Are We Outsourcing Our Social Responsibility?

    A couple of weeks back I was invited to speak on a panel discussing a Clean & Green Singapore. I said agreed because I had always wanted to meet Sivasothi, one of Singapore’s leading environmentalists. We’ve known of each other since the term “blog” was invented, but for reasons uninvestigated, we had never actually met.…

  • The Future Looks Straight And Narrow

    Good job on tweaking Medisave/Medishield; PSLE; Changi Airport. But we cannot keep treating GLBT, singles, unwed and divorced parents as second class citizens. Being GLBT single, unwed or divorced does not diminish their potential to fulfil their so-called roles in society. But pegging housing affordability to officially heterosexually married status states the opposite. Just as…