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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Shorter working hours - solve unemployment problem
Hi Mr. Tan,
An interesting article on how shorter working hours could be beneficial. Food for thought.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/are-you-working-harder-or-working-smarter-looking-at-the-40-hour-work-week.html
Quote:
“A much shorter working week could help to tackle a range of urgent and closely related problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life. It would enable many more people to join the workforce and allow for measures to reduce damaging levels of inequality….We’d have more time to be better parents, better citizens, better carers and better neighbours. And we could even become better employees: less stressed, more in control, happier in our jobs and more productive.”
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KHL
REPLY
I was advocating this approach for a long time as an effective way to solve the global unemployment problem. Each country should set aside a cap on the working hours, so that all its citizens will have access to work. But it requires the country to protect some of its domestic industries from global competition.
An interesting article on how shorter working hours could be beneficial. Food for thought.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/are-you-working-harder-or-working-smarter-looking-at-the-40-hour-work-week.html
Quote:
“A much shorter working week could help to tackle a range of urgent and closely related problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life. It would enable many more people to join the workforce and allow for measures to reduce damaging levels of inequality….We’d have more time to be better parents, better citizens, better carers and better neighbours. And we could even become better employees: less stressed, more in control, happier in our jobs and more productive.”
unquote
KHL
REPLY
I was advocating this approach for a long time as an effective way to solve the global unemployment problem. Each country should set aside a cap on the working hours, so that all its citizens will have access to work. But it requires the country to protect some of its domestic industries from global competition.
Giving back budget surplus to citizens
Promise of a better future
We need to bring this government back to focus on the people, their quality of life and the promise of a better future .... Chiam See Tong
High medical cost
Here is a story about how the medical bill to remove a simple kidney stone can amount to USD 12,000 in a private hospital in the USA. We may be facing a similar situation of over-charging in the private medical practice in Singapore. For elderly people who are not wealthy, it is better to go for a subsidized ward.
Rejected insurance claims
This article shows some of the ways that insurance companies can adopt to reject claims. In America, the consumer can find a lawyer to take the case to court. But in Singapore, most consumers are not able to afford the lawyers.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-01/accidental-death-becomes-suicide-when-insurers-dodge-paying-life-benefits.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-01/accidental-death-becomes-suicide-when-insurers-dodge-paying-life-benefits.html
This election, your life, your future
Chiam See Tong talks about the election in his Facebook ... http://easyapps.sg/sgep/admin/file.aspx?id=61
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