Last night, Amy Cheong left Singapore for Perth, Australia, where she had studied. This was after the former NTUC assistant director made a racially-insensitive facebook post on Sunday that drew flak from netizens, responses from five political leaders and got her sacked.
The 37-year-old University of Western Australia graduate was called up by the human resource division of NTUC Membership for questioning at about 9am yesterday. At 12.30pm, NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say announced Ms Cheong's termination.
Ms Cheong had worked full-time for slightly more than a year at NTUC headquarters as assistant director in NTUC's partnership alliance section before she was sacked. Her former job scope included planning membership programmes, but she was not involved in union work.
Co-workers said Ms Cheong is an outspoken, brash person. MP Zainal Sapari, who is also a NTUC director, said he was upset when he found out about the posting as he knows Ms Cheong. "I couldn't believe that a very senior person from NTUC could actually make such a remark," he said, adding that he would have expected her to exercise better judgment.
Read the full report in The Straits Times.
The 37-year-old University of Western Australia graduate was called up by the human resource division of NTUC Membership for questioning at about 9am yesterday. At 12.30pm, NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say announced Ms Cheong's termination.
Ms Cheong had worked full-time for slightly more than a year at NTUC headquarters as assistant director in NTUC's partnership alliance section before she was sacked. Her former job scope included planning membership programmes, but she was not involved in union work.
Co-workers said Ms Cheong is an outspoken, brash person. MP Zainal Sapari, who is also a NTUC director, said he was upset when he found out about the posting as he knows Ms Cheong. "I couldn't believe that a very senior person from NTUC could actually make such a remark," he said, adding that he would have expected her to exercise better judgment.
Read the full report in The Straits Times.