Sporns Are Treated Like Slaves in Own Cuntry

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>S'pore workers on the lower rungs of the holiday ladder

By JOYCE HOOI
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PROMPTING one of the rare occasions Singaporeans will wish they were in Russia, the latest Mercer survey has found that employees in countries such as Finland, Brazil and Russia have among the highest number of statutory holidays.

Employees in Finland, Brazil and France are entitled to 30 days a year, while those in Russia, Lithuania and the UK have 28 days, according to Mercer's 2009 Worldwide Benefit and Employment Guidelines, which surveyed more than 40 countries.
Workers in Singapore get just 14 days - on par with Hong Kong and among the lowest globally and in the region. The actual situation, however, is not as bleak - for multinational companies at least.
Godelieve Kroonenberg, regional benefits product manager with Mercer in Asia, said 99 per cent of MNCs in Singapore offer 20-21 days in holiday allowances. The only other countries with lower statutory holiday entitlements are India with 12 days and Canada and China with 10 days. The US has no statutory minimum but employees typically receive 15 days a year.
The figures in the survey are based on statutory entitlements for an employee working five days a week, with 10 years' service. When public holidays are taken into account, Brazil shares pole position with Lithuania. The two countries' employees top the list for potential to access the most time off work, with 40 days in total from a combination of statutory entitlements and public holidays.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Singapore, with 11 public holidays, gets a boost to 25 days in total. But India, lower-ranked based on statutory holidays alone, pole-vaults over Singapore, with its 16 public holidays bringing the final tally to 28 days.
India and Japan currently have the highest number of public holidays globally.
Within the region, Japanese workers are the most well-off holiday-wise, with 36 days in total.
Even then, company practices count for a good deal where the actual amount of available holidays is concerned.
'Employers are often within their rights to ask employees to work on public holidays or require that they be taken as part of their annual leave entitlements,' said Matthew Hunt, a principal in Mercer's international team who advises multinationals on employment practices.
Numbers aside, the devil - as many workers will attest - is in the details of the contract.
'For example, while it appears that employees in the UK have more total holidays than those in Malta, company contracts can create a different picture,' Mr Hunt said.

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[Leongsam]

Why should employers pay their staff when they aren't doing any work?

In this day and age, there shouldn't be such a thing as paid leave.

 

[SamuelStalin]

Why should employers pay their staff when they aren't doing any work?

In this day and age, there shouldn't be such a thing as paid leave.

You should be a bit more humane. You're employing humans, not robots.

 

[Leongsam]

You should be a bit more humane. You're employing humans, not robots.

Paid leave is simply unfair to employers. Businesses shoulder all the risks involved in running an enterprise and to expect them to pay employees while they aren't at work is ludicrous.

Business owners are human too so how about employees working FREE for 21 days every year. Bosses aren't robots. They need all the help they can get keeping the business afloat.

 

[johnny333]

Why should employers pay their staff when they aren't doing any work?

In this day and age, there shouldn't be such a thing as paid leave.

If you are a boss in Spore you don't have to pay for overtime, you can hire cheaper foreigners, you can hire non-Spore males who have no NS obligations, receive job credit,...

Ehh what are you doing in Australia

 

[takcheksian]

Makapaa

Singaporeans are not treated like Slaves in their own country. They have no country.

This is Lee Kuan Yew and royal famiLEE's private estate.

This bullshit thing called citizenship in Singapore is just a con game to get people to serve NS. In reality no one is a citizen except Old Fart and his FamiLEE.

 

[Ash007]

Paid leave is simply unfair to employers. Businesses shoulder all the risks involved in running an enterprise and to expect them to pay employees while they aren't at work is ludicrous.

Business owners are human too so how about employees working FREE for 21 days every year. Bosses aren't robots. They need all the help they can get keeping the business afloat.

You must loved leave loading then. You get paid more by taking your annual leave.

he 17.5% leave loading is a wonderful historic legacy from the glory days of the Labour movement actually being a potent force in Australia. The theory is this: when you are on holiday, you don't have the opportunity to work overtime, or do other things that might give you a bit extra in your pay packet each week. Ergo, the 17.5% extra represents the extra earnings that you didn't get the chance to earn.

http://ask.metafilter.com/51946/What-is-leave-loading

 

[halsey02]

Paid leave is simply unfair to employers. Businesses shoulder all the risks involved in running an enterprise and to expect them to pay employees while they aren't at work is ludicrous.

Business owners are human too so how about employees working FREE for 21 days every year. Bosses aren't robots. They need all the help they can get keeping the business afloat.

Agree with you..do away with paid leave...when one, goes on leave, one gets PAID to LEAVE...

So each time, one wants leave...one gets PAID..and then LEAVE!!