73-Year-Old Cleaner Only Given 1 Day Off for Every 2 Weeks. 60%, Song Bo?

[makapaaa]

http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-letters/story/my-point-20141223

Day off each fortnight OK?

MY 73-YEAR-OLD mother is employed as a part-time cleaner at a coffee shop. She works five hours a day for seven days a week, and is given only a day off every fortnight.

According to the Employment Act, any worker earning a basic monthly salary of not more than $2,500 is entitled to a weekly day off.

However, I know of many cleaners and foodcourt workers who are given only a day off each fortnight. Is this practice legal? Can the authorities comment?

Lim Suyin (Ms)

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[eatshitndie]

they don't know what to do with their day off, so they end up working past 5 hours a day and 7 days a week. some are asked to go home after their shift, but they prefer to hang around and clean. cleaning has become 2nd nature to them, and it's extremely addictive. :p

 

[halsey02]

All we are asking for is dignity, respect & not to exploit the elderly performing any menial work for a pittance salary...I know nothing is fair in this world....as I read about the cleaners, I have noticed many elderly cleaners at coffee shops, food courts etc...it is sometimes quite pitiful to see them tottering around doing menial work. There two sides to the coin...they don't work, they rot, they do work....they rot faster..life is not fair!.

 

[eatshitndie]

All we are asking for is dignity, respect & not to exploit the elderly performing any menial work for a pittance salary...I know nothing is fair in this world....as I read about the cleaners, I have noticed many elderly cleaners at coffee shops, food courts etc...it is sometimes quite pitiful to see them tottering around doing menial work. There two sides to the coin...they don't work, they rot, they do work....they rot faster..life is not fair!.

it's more than that. it's obsessive compulsive disorder. we don't have maids at home, and my mom would do the cleaning. she mops the floor and tables day and night, night and day. while she's enjoying her korean drama on tv, she would mop too. she mops while having a snack. no sit down lunch and dinner for her as she snacks regularly with a mop in hand and a pail of water always on standby. every time i visit her, there's high risk of me slipping on the wet floor and getting my hips busted. :*:

 

[Froggy]

Our dear leader Lee Kuan Yew at 91 still toil relentlessly for Singapore and Singaporeans seven days a week without any days off. Sinkies should look up to him as an example.

 

[looneytan]

"Fucking lazy Sinkies, 5-hour-day still want day off ... Ptuii ... No wonder, tonychat stays away from Sinkies"

 

[JohnTan]

All we are asking for is dignity, respect & not to exploit the elderly performing any menial work for a pittance salary...I know nothing is fair in this world....as I read about the cleaners, I have noticed many elderly cleaners at coffee shops, food courts etc...it is sometimes quite pitiful to see them tottering around doing menial work. There two sides to the coin...they don't work, they rot, they do work....they rot faster..life is not fair!.

We are Asians. There is no dignity in performing menial work. Practically everyone I know disrespects menial workers and do not wish such a fate on themselves or their children. A minister once said something along the line that dignity is directly proportional to income earned.

 

[LEGEND]

"Fucking lazy Sinkies, 5-hour-day still want day off ... Ptuii ... No wonder, tonychat stays away from Sinkies"

73yrs old leh. Not 21yrs old.....

 

[TracyTan866]

All we are asking for is dignity, respect & not to exploit the elderly performing any menial work for a pittance salary...I know nothing is fair in this world....as I read about the cleaners, I have noticed many elderly cleaners at coffee shops, food courts etc...it is sometimes quite pitiful to see them tottering around doing menial work. There two sides to the coin...they don't work, they rot, they do work....they rot faster..life is not fair!.

Excellent point. Singapore must not allow businesses to exploit the workers. What are LSS, TCJ, LHL and PAP doing for Singaporean workers' dignity and rights?

 

[frenchbriefs]

We are Asians. There is no dignity in performing menial work. Practically everyone I know disrespects menial workers and do not wish such a fate on themselves or their children. A minister once said something along the line that dignity is directly proportional to income earned.

That's cause Asians are conformists,they have no respect for themselves,they follow a buerecratic hierarchy system.in any moh land,everyone regardless of what job they do are a individual,a personality,they respect the individual not the job.