In a move to let more older Singaporeans work longer, the
Government is reducing the list of workers who do not get to stay
on the job till the retirement age of 62 and be offered
re-employment.
The list of 26 categories will be reduced to 13, and among those
removed are polytechnic and university lecturers, doctors and
dentists working in hospitals on fixed-term contracts as well as
pilots.
But the cabin crew of commercial airlines and public officers in
the uniformed services, such as the police, civil defence and the
armed forces, continue to be exempted from the Retirement and
Re-employment Act.
The new and shorter list, published yesterday in the electronic
version of the Government Gazette, will be effective on Jan 1 next
year, the same day the Act takes effect.
-- ST