Wages increase decision vs Cheaper,Faster, Better
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Below are 3 examples of wage increase over the period of last few months. As you can read private sector wage increase to increase morale and increase services and productivities. While minimum wage increase ease private citizens expenditures. And Last but not least....Labor Union works for labors. ......
Except in Singapore....we are always being told by our NTUC to be competitive...means cut wages.
Wynn Resorts increases payroll despite layoffs
16 June 2010
By Arnold M. Knightly
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Wynn Resorts Ltd. is restoring nearly 3,700 workers to full-time work schedules and pay, but announced that it will lay off 261 workers at its two Strip resorts, casino executive Steve Wynn said.
Wynn said full 40-hour workweeks will be restored at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore and all salaried employees making less than $200,000 will return to full wages. He described the decision as an attempt to boost employee morale at the resorts.
The gaming company, however, is laying off 261 Las Vegas workers, including 240 hourly workers, in areas that it has determined are overstaffed for the current economy.
The move will increase payroll by $7.7 million, Wynn said.
"It's going to be a big morale boost, and it cost the company a fortune when we're losing money," Wynn said. "We did it to give good news to 3,700 people."
The restoration of full-time hours is a reversal of Wynn Resorts' decision 18 months ago to cut back on everyone's hours and cut salaries to keep more employees working during the recession. However, the continued decline in casino business makes that no longer appropriate, Wynn said.
"Instead of the employees thinking we're protecting them, they're struggling with the reduction in their work hours," he said.
Other cutbacks the company took at the time included suspending company 401(k) contributions and bonus payments, reducing salaried employees' pay by 15 percent and going to 32-hour workweeks.
Wynn said the change was inspired by a long-time employee who said the company's policies were creating hardships for employees.
The job cuts, which Wynn said were the first layoffs in his 42 years in the casino industry, represent less than 3 percent of the two properties' work forceAustralia’s Minister for Employment, Julia Gillard welcomed the decision by a special Minimum Wages Panel to ease the cost of living by raising the minimum wage.
The decision by the independent panel lifts the national Minimum Wage by $ 26 per week or $0.69 per hour, a jump of 1.2 percent since it was last raised two years ago.
Workers will see the increase in their first paycheck after July 1.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Honda Motor Co. says striking workers who have frozen production at its car plants in southern China have accepted a 24 percent wage increase, possibly allowing operations to resume this week.
But a labor union official said Tuesday that his group was still trying to convince workers holding out for a bigger increase to return to the assembly line at Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co. in the eastern coastal city of Foshan
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Our govt promote low wages (thru Cheaper, Faster, Better) program that they worked with MNC HR department to hire thru the Cheaper, Faster, Better program to stay competitive and at the same time bring in less skill foreign labours to accept lower wage.
This is a trap for our residents who are stucked with frustrated wage. low morale, more cynical, and less productivities.....
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Raising wages is nonsense.
They should adopt the "cheaper, better, faster" principle like in Sg.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Raising wages is nonsense.
They should adopt the "cheaper, better, faster" principle like in Sg.
unless, you could perform one leg kicks aka multi taskingvery soon, you prepare your own funeral
cos you over exhausted
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last thursday, channel 8, 10.30pm programme, focus.
it is about 13 foxconn china workers that commit suicide.
that lead to 10 mati, 3 being hospitalised!
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Originally posted by SANTA CLAUSE:
unless, you could perform one leg kicks aka multi taskingvery soon, you prepare your own funeral
cos you over exhausted
yap....than they blame singaporean for not getting married and have babies. I pity singaporean they are so confuse as what is important in their life. They are told by Govt....Do this...Do That....think this way, Vote that way...Bend down get F#$% here.
No time for anything..........
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
yap....than they blame singaporean for not getting married and have babies. I pity singaporean they are so confuse as what is important in their life. They are told by Govt....Do this...Do That....think this way, Vote that way...Bend down get F#$% here.
No time for anything..........
Ya, despite of telling people to do this do that, they still can find something to blame us when things go wrong.
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Foxconn deaths hit 11
Protesters from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) burn effigies of Apple products in Hong Kong Wednesday during a demonstration over a string of suicides by Foxconn employees.
By Guo Qiang and Ji Beibei
Folding under the strain of their jobs or perhaps as an extreme show of protest, some Foxconn Technology Group employees are literally jumping to their deaths, and the number of apparent suicides reached double digits Wednesday.
So far this year, it appears 12 employees have attempted to kill themselves, mainly by jumping from their dormitories. Two were unsuccessful. And another employee died of a heart attack in her dorm.
The total number of dead stood at 11 Wednesday, and the toll has led to accusations that the Taiwan-based electronics maker is running sweatshops. Psychological experts have also expressed concern for the general well-being of people's health amid major societal changes.
Li Hai, 19, a vocational-school graduate from central Hunan Province, plunged from a building at Foxconn's Guanlan plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, at 6:20 am Wednesday. He had worked there just 42 days, according to Chen Hongfang, director of Foxconn's labor union office, who spoke to reporters Wednesday.
Pending the outcome of an investigation, police declined Wednesday to rule the death a suicide.
But sources familiar with the incident told the Xinhua News Agency Wednesday that the man left a note, which was addressed to his father, saying, "I have no capabilities. I have gotten what I deserve."
The latest death was the ninth at Foxconn's massive factory complex in Shenzhen, which employs 420,000 people, more than half of its global staff. The two employees who survived their jumps were also from that plant.
The two remaining deaths occurred at a Foxconn plant in Langfang, north Hebei Province, in January and February, respectively. Rong Bo died after jumping off the company's dormitory building January 8. And Wang Lingyan, 16, died from a heart attack suffered in her dor-mitory February 23.
A Foxconn employee in Shenzhen, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Global Times Wednesday that the company had requested that staff members sign contracts stipulating that "families of any employee who resorts to self-injury or suicide will not get compensation from Foxconn."
The statement also said that employees exhibiting abnormal behavior must undergo medical checkups that the company would arrange, according to the source, who said he had worked at the plant for more than four years.
"The prescribed work time is from 8 am to 5:30 pm, but workers must come at least 20 minutes earlier and usually leave at 8 pm or 9 pm. They have only two hours for lunch and dinner, and 10 minutes of rest every two hours," he said.
"Some managers often verbally abuse workers."
Foxconn President Terry Gou Wednesday refuted claims that it operates sweatshops. Speaking in Taipei, he also promised to stabilize the situation at the company.
But the spate of apparent suicides has led to a firestorm of criticism against Foxconn by labor groups. US-based China Labor Watch has criticized Foxconn's "military-style administration and harsh working conditions," calling on the company to "initiate a thoroughgoing analysis of life on its production lines," according to media reports.
Additionally, more than 30 labor activists from the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions gathered Wednesday at a local Foxconn office.
They held up paper cutouts of people and asked the company to improve its management, said Chan Chiuwai, a protester at the site.
"Military-style discipline on the workforce has created unbearable pressure among workers. We are urging the contractor to improve working con-ditions and relations between managers and workers, as well as among workers," he said.
Xinhua reported Wednesday that multiple investigations carried out by local authorities have ruled out a direct connection between the employees' deaths and Foxconn's management techniques.
The company started playing music on its assembly line this month to relieve some of the workers' stress, and it is also recruiting more than 2,000 singers, dancers and gym trainers, and a number of psychiatrists. It also even installed three-meter-tall fences around dormitory buildings to stop employees from jumping.
In addition to the counselors, Foxconn even went as far as to invite monks from Wutai Mountain to dispel misfortune among its employees.
Foxconn is part of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the world's largest maker of consumer electronics for companies that include Apple, Nokia and Sony.
Fan Fumin, a professor of psychology at Tsinghua University, argued in an interview with China Central Television that the suicide rate among Foxconn employees, which has climbed to about two or three per 100,000, is not that high compared with the latest data released by the World Health Organization, that says the average suicide rate in China is 13 per 100,000 men and 14.8 per 100,000 women.
Yu Guoliang, a professor of social psychology at Renmin University of China, told the Global Times that the spate of suicides was triggered by imitation.
"Youngsters are easily affected by others and take extreme actions when they live in an enclosed environment and lack communication with different people," Yu said.
"China is undergoing a huge societal transformation. Some of its people can easily get lost given such a fast pace of development," Yu said. "Once their expectations, and sometimes illusions, can't be satisfied, they are very prone to abnormal mental states."
Kang Juan contributed to this story
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
yap....than they blame singaporean for not getting married and have babies. I pity singaporean they are so confuse as what is important in their life. They are told by Govt....Do this...Do That....think this way, Vote that way...Bend down get F#$% here.
No time for anything..........
Some local are just being mislead!One critical reason for people to remain single is due to the fact that people simply did not want their next/future generation "to suffer" and stress to death!
becos Iron rice bowl no longer existed!
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In the sinking land called singapore, the wages are getting lower and the costs of living are going up and up every month, every year.
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Originally posted by SANTA CLAUSE:
Some local are just being mislead!One critical reason for people to remain single is due to the fact that people simply did not want their next/future generation "to suffer" and stress to death!
becos Iron rice bowl no longer existed!
You are right. What for bring the kids to this Singapore for them to suffer??? -
thats right it is not so much for not marrying but those that married aren't having kids....
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imagine your son/s after jc, poly or pre u had to serve ns - 2 years gone
unless he is a scholar!
international students/foreigner students whom graduate from local poly and university become pr
they signed 3yrs bond and worked despite booming economic or recession
while your son/s whom are also poly or university graduate are jobless
due to the facts that his co downsized, relocated, restrucured, etc - how would you as a parent felt!
this is butter and bread issue
that's why we had low population like japan
yr 1997, is one freaking year for me
don't forget the influx of foreigners
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