UNIONISTS and employer group Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) have scoffed at a recent survey that shows wages next year will increase by 4.2 per cent.
LABOUR chief Lim Swee Say wants companies to put Singaporeans at the end of the queue when looking at shrinking the number of their rank and file workers.
Mr Lim believes the way to go in the current downturn is for firms to let the non-Singaporeans go first, by not renewing the contract and work permit of their foreign workers.
INFECTIOUS diseases doctors have sounded the alarm on the overuse of antibiotics in Singapore, which has led to a growing number of patients being hit with potentially lethal superbugs.
Despite more stringent measures by hospitals to control infections, high numbers of patients are still coming down with serious infections like methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has enlisted senior counsel Davinder Singh to advise it on the latest legal issues faced by the ill-fated Minibonds structured notes.
The central bank said on Thursday night that it has called on Mr Singh, the chief executive of Drew & Napier, 'to advise MAS on the implications of the legal issues raised by the lawyers acting in the Chapter 11 proceedings for Lehman Brothers'.
