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https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/for...d-for-pmes

The National Trades Union Congress is calling for unemployment support and benefits for professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) who have lost their jobs (NTUC seeks support for PMEs who lost their jobs, Aug 27).

NTUC assistant secretary-general Patrick Tay acknowledged that there are already support schemes for workers who lost income during the pandemic. But the labour movement wants PMEs to be given help beyond the existing grants.

NTUC also found that mature PMEs were also concerned about workplace discrimination arising from age and nationality.


Mr Tay said the task force comprising NTUC and the Singapore National Employers Federation will present a full set of recommendations later this year.

In April, NTUC secretary-general Ng Chee Meng announced that NTUC was exploring reserving certain jobs for local PMEs "where we have the skills" (NTUC exploring reserving certain jobs for S'porean PMEs, April 30).

As there has been no update on this matter, it is probably reasonable to assume that this is still a work in progress.


While local PMEs welcome and appreciate NTUC's multi-pronged initiatives, they need urgent help and relief, not more studies and reviews by task forces or committees.

Because they cannot be expected to put their lives on hold, many have already taken on lower-level jobs such as delivery service providers, drivers and hawkers.

Accordingly, I hope NTUC can expedite the processes so that help can benefit the PMEs in a timely fashion. After all, like justice, help delayed is help denied.

Ang Ah Lay

[Ola]

It is not just workplace discrimination. it is JOB DISCRIMINATION.

Like my neighbor upstairs, she is a Peranakan, speaks well, holds a Diploma from Singapore Poly but jobless for past 8 years.

My god! She has gone through it longer than I did.

It is time PAP give her back the same job that she can do.

Please do not make her a cleaner when she is 80 years old.

[Ola]

Ladies and gentlemen

Who you voted for last election?

knn, vote oppie don't come here to beg PAP for help

That is why your IQ ZERO.

PAP holds the POWER, controls MOM and 8 SISTER Companies, have the Authority to amend Employment Law.

If they do not do it, then who can?

You, arh?

[Ola]

If you a sdp stooge like ts

go ask tudung chee for a job

That is why you kowtow to PAP like a Beggar without a spine?

No wonder your soul is eaten by the Devil.

[Ola]

If you get a cleaner job 20 years later

beggar chee will boast he got you a job

You mean your silly PAP Ministers? No wonder your vote for silly people like them.

It is his Job and Duty to get people Better job, but this Siah- Suay Fahmi who behaves like you, praise himself for down- grading a cleaner.

So hopeless like you. 

[Hfourhappy]

look around us, so many c people working...out jobs given to them!

[Symmetry]

look around us, so many c people working...out jobs given to them!

2,000 jobs in Punggol. But who will work there out of 500,000 CECA we accumulated over the past decade due to lapses in MOE IT Quota. 

I have a strange feeling that it will be like Changi Business Park 10 years later. 


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