FCF is Ineffective, Singaporeans Still Discriminated in Job Market
When the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) introduced its Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) in 2013, the SDP had predicted that the policy would not be effective. Five years hence, Minister for Manpower Lim Swee Say revealed in Parliament this week that 500 companies in Singapore have been placed on an FCF watchlist for having “pre-conceived...
Dr Chee: Create problem, exacerbate problem, then make people pay for problem
“TICKING TIME BOMB”, “tsunami”, “unprecedented”. Scary words but words, nevertheless, used to describe the not-so-small problem of Singapore's ageing population. Indeed, this year marks the sobering point where, for the first time in our history, the proportion of folks 65 years and older matches that of younger...
SDP: A Budget of Wayang and Cheap Gimmicks
If ever there was a budget laden with cheap gimmicks and full of wayang, this one is it. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced an 'ang pow' of up to $300 for every individual. The giveaway amounts to $700 million. This is against a collection of a surplus of $9.6 billion the previous year. In other words, the government...
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