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Govt. passed the RRA which comes into effect 1st January 2012.
While govt. recognises that the aged has a right to work beyond 62 yrs due to longer life and increasing cost of living, its relevant State Organ is putting obstacles preventing those who want to work beyond 62.........
There is a tripartite agreement on re-employment terms and I cannot understand the glaring disparity.
Private sector re-hires upon satisfactory work performance while Public
Service Division (PSD) guidelines demand a "C" for past 3 consecutive years. A "C" rating is better or igher than a satisfactory or "D" rating.Few weeks back, Elgin Toh in his Straits Times article reported on MOU reached with chemical/petroleum industry wherein a performance of satisfactory or "D" (based on PSD scale) suffice.
PSD's performance criterion is not derived mathematically from individual performance goals/scores but based on whether an employee gets performance bonus largely shared by a group of staff with mixture of C & D rating or better.Thus an employee with mixture of C & D may end up as a D-performer which is mathematically impossible. Sharing of the bonus pot is mostly done behind the scene and subject to favouritism and croynism. It is also used to discriminate against employees the bosses do not like & as tool for cropping leaving behind "yes" men like in SMRT. Witchcraft method and yet it is
it is accepted and used as a yardstick to determine the faith of poor souls who are performing but do
not shoe-polish the bosses.
Also why is the criterion mooted by PSD tighter than private sector? Is it because in public sector you get better opportunities to enrich yourselves by stealing & cheating?
Isn't this matter a result of government recognising that we live longer and we too
have hefty bills to pay. Isn't PSD a leg in the 3-legged tripartite agreement? If so why the left does not know what the right hand is doing? Or is it really the case?
So it appears to me that the intent is noble but the implementation is full of abuses. Three cheers to the private sector for doing the right thing.
This cuntry has gone to the wolves with the elites making rules to ensure you suffer: NO rehire but have to fend for yourselves with hefty medical bills.
The consequence of PSD's guidelines is more local talents get replaced by FT's - one Polytechnic has many soft jobs given to Indonesians, Hongkie, Indian FT, Burmese, etc.........!!!
While govt. recognises that the aged has a right to work beyond 62 yrs due to longer life and increasing cost of living, its relevant State Organ is putting obstacles preventing those who want to work beyond 62.........
There is a tripartite agreement on re-employment terms and I cannot understand the glaring disparity.
Private sector re-hires upon satisfactory work performance while Public
Service Division (PSD) guidelines demand a "C" for past 3 consecutive years. A "C" rating is better or igher than a satisfactory or "D" rating.Few weeks back, Elgin Toh in his Straits Times article reported on MOU reached with chemical/petroleum industry wherein a performance of satisfactory or "D" (based on PSD scale) suffice.
PSD's performance criterion is not derived mathematically from individual performance goals/scores but based on whether an employee gets performance bonus largely shared by a group of staff with mixture of C & D rating or better.Thus an employee with mixture of C & D may end up as a D-performer which is mathematically impossible. Sharing of the bonus pot is mostly done behind the scene and subject to favouritism and croynism. It is also used to discriminate against employees the bosses do not like & as tool for cropping leaving behind "yes" men like in SMRT. Witchcraft method and yet it is
it is accepted and used as a yardstick to determine the faith of poor souls who are performing but do
not shoe-polish the bosses.
Also why is the criterion mooted by PSD tighter than private sector? Is it because in public sector you get better opportunities to enrich yourselves by stealing & cheating?
Isn't this matter a result of government recognising that we live longer and we too
have hefty bills to pay. Isn't PSD a leg in the 3-legged tripartite agreement? If so why the left does not know what the right hand is doing? Or is it really the case?
So it appears to me that the intent is noble but the implementation is full of abuses. Three cheers to the private sector for doing the right thing.
This cuntry has gone to the wolves with the elites making rules to ensure you suffer: NO rehire but have to fend for yourselves with hefty medical bills.
The consequence of PSD's guidelines is more local talents get replaced by FT's - one Polytechnic has many soft jobs given to Indonesians, Hongkie, Indian FT, Burmese, etc.........!!!
