Singapore calls for greater protection for platform workers at ILO meeting

Singapore is calling for greater protection for platform workers in the Asia-Pacific region. It hopes regional countries can create more inclusive employment. This was among the aims laid out in the Singapore Statement which was adopted at the close of the Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting, organised by the International Labour Organization. It was hosted by Singapore for the first time and attended by more than 350 delegates. They include ministers and union leaders from 35 countries.

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[ks--]

Good luck singaporeans became delivery boys

[lamjianyuan]

What did the pap done for singapore and singaporeans?

[lamjianyuan]

Besides making grand and empty speeches, what did PM Lee, Mr. Lawrence wong and the pap done for singaporeans?

[leexianlong]

Platform workers and gig workers must come together and rally against PAP's encroachment into the market. They will call for more CPF contribution, mandatory insurance, impose stricter regulations, etc. All these are mere taxes and they weight down on the development of the industry altogether. The free market can negotiate better among themselves without government intervention and control, thus generating more value for stakeholders in the industry.
Business and labor must lobby against any form of new regulations by the PAP government.

[lamjianyuan]

what has the pap done for singaporeans for the past 9 or 10 years? only tiny cash handouts and things per year.

[cholesterol]

They need to wear proper gear and atleast decent clothing.

[anziar]

That's a very caring and responsible s'pore govt. 👍👍

[martinlee]

Singaporeans do not really want a two or multi-party government. They do not trust the opposition or any non-PAP entity to run the country. What they want is a less elitist, less arrogant, more responsive and more liberal PAP to fix their trains, their lifts, their homes and their jobs.
Yes, Singaporeans do want more opposition, but enough only to frighten the PAP to do better.

PAP is not just economically, socially and institutionally entrenched in Singapore, its values are also psychologically entrenched in the minds of the vast majority of Singaporeans.
On this point, Chee Soon Juan is right after all, “Our biggest struggle is not against the PAP. It is against what the PAP has done to our minds.”
If the central tenet of democracy is the empowering of its citizens to decide their future, then is it still democracy when citizens decide time and time again to relinquish their rights to the dictates of one ruling party?