Will serving the nation get us served a pink slip?
Wednesday December 7, 2005
Letter from Michael Chua Kheng Hwee
IT APPEARS it's not just women who risk getting the boot from their
work place when they go on maternity leave. There are men who defer
their reservist in-camp training (ICT) for fear of being
replaced.
I have a friend who is working in an IT position based on a
one-year renewable contract.
The Ministry of Defence notified him that he was scheduled to go
for his ICT this month. But he deferred his training for fear of
losing his job to some foreign talent.
It certainly is not fair for any company to terminate the
employment contract of a contract worker just because he has to
serve his country.
Can the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) address the concerns of NSMen,
like my friend, who defer their ICT because they don't want to lose
their jobs?
Can MOM take to task employers who unfairly terminate the
employment of staff just because they go for reservist ICT?
Its no secret why singaporean males are not preferred for jobs thx
to National Slavery.
Thats why nowadays you see so many female working environment. The
rest of the jobs go to the foreign talent. I have been on different
jobs so many times and never once, especially in an office
environment, saw more males than females. In fact one company I
have been to has only one male in the office.
