Instead of questioning why the Papayas are the BEST PAID in the world!
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Nov 15, 2008
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Retrenched...what to do next? <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>'In a financial crisis, any paying job is a good one, even if you have to stand in the sun and rain,' an axed storekeeper tells Mavis Toh and Shuli Sudderuddin </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Mavis Toh & Shuli Sudderuddin
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WHEN Mr Chai Choo Sah was retrenched from his job as a yacht storekeeper a month ago, he was not surprised.
For months, business at the company he worked for had been poor, as rich overseas clients - perhaps victims of the current financial turmoil - dropped off. Some 50 colleagues had already been laid off earlier.
With help from the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the 57-year-old father of three children in their 20s, whose wife is a homemaker, got a job as a landscaping technician in about two weeks. Read Mavis Toh and Shuli Sudderuddin's full story in tomorrow's edition of The Sunday Times.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Nov 15, 2008
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Retrenched...what to do next? <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>'In a financial crisis, any paying job is a good one, even if you have to stand in the sun and rain,' an axed storekeeper tells Mavis Toh and Shuli Sudderuddin </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Mavis Toh & Shuli Sudderuddin
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WHEN Mr Chai Choo Sah was retrenched from his job as a yacht storekeeper a month ago, he was not surprised.
For months, business at the company he worked for had been poor, as rich overseas clients - perhaps victims of the current financial turmoil - dropped off. Some 50 colleagues had already been laid off earlier.
With help from the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the 57-year-old father of three children in their 20s, whose wife is a homemaker, got a job as a landscaping technician in about two weeks. Read Mavis Toh and Shuli Sudderuddin's full story in tomorrow's edition of The Sunday Times.
