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22 Aug 2012, 1.32PM

8 comments & replies |by Guest | Singapore Population and Demography

i dont agree govt suggested 6 mths maturity leave.

i will like to shared my sad story to u.

in year 2009,i give birth my elder son,after my maternity leaves 4 mths come back to work.

my contract no been renewal.

i understand that contract basic will any time ask u to go.

but why is after i given birth immediated contract no been renewal.(jobless)

i almost every year renewal my contract only that year after my maternity leaves.

i'm contract basic worker 2009.

,hope Governor can help to secure those contract or part time women worker .

for the job secure after they give birth.

unless other wise no body will dare to give birth.

cos after give birth job no secure.

so if 4mths matervity leave will lost job,

6 mths will more worst.

I'm mother 2 kids (3.5 old & 2.5old)

my problem is if i give birth third bb,

nobody take care.

age below 5 yrs need more attention to take care them.

i alone unable to cop 3 young kids.

infant care very expenses,hired also expense.

expenses will high my hubby earn less than $2k.

i par time working mother pay less than $500.

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Guest

22 Aug 2012, 2.01PM

This is the problem which Singapore government did not resolve and yet wnat to propose 6 months maternity leave.

It is good to have 6 months maternity leave but will the MOM protects the labour when such problem arises?

Guest

22 Aug 2012, 3.28PM

my aunts always like to read things like this and laugh...
they each had 3 children or more... and never had maids or outside help, too poor to employ amah
they also had to take care of the main extended family given that they were married into the husband's family...

all their children turn out to be doctors, lawyers, accountants, owners of businesses, etc. and generally good civil people...

and before you say it, let me say it for you... yes, times are different... now need to have piano lessons, ballet lessons, tuition, etc...my cousins and i are musically capable, can swim, play sports, academically inclined (the only tuition teacher we had was called mr. Cane), etc.... and on top of that, we actually had a childhood!

Guest

22 Aug 2012, 3.36PM

oh, sorry, forgot to add. they all had full time employment too... we were poor and had no maids, so all of us were latchkey children by 5 years old

Guest

22 Aug 2012, 3.39PM

haha... that resonates...
me too, i had mr cane, mrs cane, uncle cane, grandpa cane as tuition teachers too!

tall thin one, short fat one, big fat one, short flat one... all kinds of tuition teachers. they taught quite well too. everytime i came back with a B or C on my report card, all of them started teaching me until i got an A!

Guest

22 Aug 2012, 3.06PM

Make termination of employee after maternity leave an offence for employers. Fine the employers heavily to make them cooperate with the govt otherwise govt here tries to solve procreation problem employers sabotage.

Guest

22 Aug 2012, 3.24PM

I got suggestion to punish such employers:
1. Fine them minimum 6mth paying sum of last drawn pay
2. Mandatory make such employer compensate 1month pay for every 3 months worked. If the worker had worked for 4 years, it would be 12x4÷3=16months compensation. To capped at 24months compensation.
3. If cannot not pay fine or unable to pay compensation, send to jail. Every 1 month cannot pay go jail for one month and do cheap labour.
4. If cannot pay more than 12 months, every month will get two stokes of cane capped at 24 strokes.

Let's see whether the situation gets better?

Guest

22 Aug 2012, 3.47PM

Very good ideas. Then all women will be unemployed, stay at home make babies and take care of babies. Cook dinner and wait for hubby to come back to eat. No need to employ foreign maids. Solve our foreigners problems. No to build more childcare centres. The husband can save alot of money. Don have to moonlight for extra money. Hubby can have warm satisfying dinners, save more energy and retire to bed early and perhaps plan to make more babies. Our population problem solve and have 100% born singappreans.

Guest

23 Aug 2012, 10.22AM

Missed that good old days! We are what we are today as an evolution of a normal developed society.

See, that's the problem today, don't the government get it?
I think they do know where the problem lies, just want us to talk/discuss about it and come to a final conclusion that "we need more foreigners...!"

They cannot do anything effective about it. Let's face it!
Can we stop talking about Singaporean making more babies? It's getting nowhere.

Let's talk about how much foreigners, who are those, and what type we need and want to welcome into our society.

Whether 1.39million non-residents in 2011 make proper sense for trading off our quality of life (non-resident excludes tourists & short-term visitors) or should we reduce that amount to 140k non-residents by 2020?

I think our main problem today is the large number of non-residents population.

From 2005 to 2011,
Citizen increased by 5.7% to 3.25million
PR increased by 37.5% to 0.53million
Non-residents increased by 74.7% to 1.39million

Very simple, this is also the main reason to why our wage were suppressed, infrastructure overloaded, Singtel data speed extremely poor and ended up data plan cut from 12GB to 2GB.

So far, the number of PR is reasonably manageable and a healthy one since those are more likely to become citizen than the non-residents and presumably to be better qualified and skilled in general. We need to target the non-residents population first to a manageable size.

What say you?