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Published On: Dec 21, 2006 05:40 PM
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Published On: Dec 21, 2006 05:40 PM
Our Dear Gahmen
A few articles ago, I spoke about the Gahmen's
wanting shops to open later...
How i rant about the stupid idea....
Coz of more tired workers, higher overheads, less home time, less babies (contradicting with their "want" for more babies")
Now they want Childcare to open later......
This is absolutely madness, another group of already very tired workers is to be slapped with longer worker hours.
Note: all those working in these affected industries are of lower income range.
So is the Gahmen trying to overwork the already poorly paid people? Are they trying to benefit the highly paid workers?
Can't the Offices release parents earlier instead if a conducive family environment and relationships? Won't that be more excuses for companies to ask Staff to work longer hours too?
Some issues:
1. Are we taken as Breeders? We are told to "make babies" to support aging populations. Yet longer working hours means less time with Families.
2. Children at Childcare can be there from as early as 7am to 7pm. 12 hours, how much time do they have with their parents? Is that healthy Child Development?
3. You work so hard, long hours, and reach home tired with the child. Is there good bonding time with the child? DO YOU WATCH THE CHILD GROW HORIZONTALLY or VERTICALLY? and I mean both the childcare giver and the parents.
4. Increasing hours at Childcare means increasing cost of operations, means higher fees, means longer working hours for parents trying to cope. Also add in the dangers of fatigue affecting the carecare givers and parents, leading to the child being neglected for even the brief moment where accidents might occur.
5. If shift work at childcare is said to be able to help the situation, then calculated this. If a child's placement would cost around $700(estimated) at the centre and there are 2 teachers there...with about 30 students. minus overheads and all, each teacher is paid only approximately $1200-$1500 (this is based on current estimate salary rates of Childcare teachers). If Shifts is introduced, then we need to employ more teachers to watch the children. If fees if not increased, the margin of salary per teacher would have fallen. If fees increased, it means more cost for parents, that means more expensive to have children. Why would the society want children then?
6. Wouldn't the Childcare givers be parents themselves who needs to pick up their own children too?
For now, I leave it as that.
If anyone would tell Mr Vivian Balakrishnan about this posting, I would certainly love to hear what he and the rest of the cabinet ministers have to say about their "open longer hours" at various service industry means. You can tomorrow this or whatsoever, I do not care, but would love to engage in a discussion on this.
....everyone has only 24 hours per day, to eat, sleep, rest, travel, work......increasing either one of the portions will throw the balance off.
How i rant about the stupid idea....
Coz of more tired workers, higher overheads, less home time, less babies (contradicting with their "want" for more babies")
Now they want Childcare to open later......
This is absolutely madness, another group of already very tired workers is to be slapped with longer worker hours.
Note: all those working in these affected industries are of lower income range.
So is the Gahmen trying to overwork the already poorly paid people? Are they trying to benefit the highly paid workers?
Can't the Offices release parents earlier instead if a conducive family environment and relationships? Won't that be more excuses for companies to ask Staff to work longer hours too?
Some issues:
1. Are we taken as Breeders? We are told to "make babies" to support aging populations. Yet longer working hours means less time with Families.
2. Children at Childcare can be there from as early as 7am to 7pm. 12 hours, how much time do they have with their parents? Is that healthy Child Development?
3. You work so hard, long hours, and reach home tired with the child. Is there good bonding time with the child? DO YOU WATCH THE CHILD GROW HORIZONTALLY or VERTICALLY? and I mean both the childcare giver and the parents.
4. Increasing hours at Childcare means increasing cost of operations, means higher fees, means longer working hours for parents trying to cope. Also add in the dangers of fatigue affecting the carecare givers and parents, leading to the child being neglected for even the brief moment where accidents might occur.
5. If shift work at childcare is said to be able to help the situation, then calculated this. If a child's placement would cost around $700(estimated) at the centre and there are 2 teachers there...with about 30 students. minus overheads and all, each teacher is paid only approximately $1200-$1500 (this is based on current estimate salary rates of Childcare teachers). If Shifts is introduced, then we need to employ more teachers to watch the children. If fees if not increased, the margin of salary per teacher would have fallen. If fees increased, it means more cost for parents, that means more expensive to have children. Why would the society want children then?
6. Wouldn't the Childcare givers be parents themselves who needs to pick up their own children too?
For now, I leave it as that.
If anyone would tell Mr Vivian Balakrishnan about this posting, I would certainly love to hear what he and the rest of the cabinet ministers have to say about their "open longer hours" at various service industry means. You can tomorrow this or whatsoever, I do not care, but would love to engage in a discussion on this.
....everyone has only 24 hours per day, to eat, sleep, rest, travel, work......increasing either one of the portions will throw the balance off.
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