TR EMERITUS

I refer to “CEO of IE Singapore to step down from Dec 31”. PAP-appointed CEO Teo Eng Cheong, husband of it’s-not-the-govt’s-job-to-love-Singaporeans SMOS Josephine Teo, is reported to be leaving to join the “private sector”. As usual, Teo is praised to the skies but what is not mentioned – Teo is being recycled... 

I do not know how many Singaporeans out there are still trying to send out their resume looking for a job and after 6 months or a year or more and still could not land a job. I do not know how many are so stressed up, depressed and lost all confidence in themselves and how many are feeling so worthless and ashamed of themselves... 

The fact that the couple is merely charged under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, shows the kind of rights that domestic workers have. The proceedings also show how much rights the domestic workers know of their rights or where to seek help. What the domestic worker has gone through, should amount no less than torture...