NEWS ASIA
SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE TO PROGRESSIVELY RAISE RETIREMENT AND RE-EMPLOYMENT AGES FROM JULY 2022, the retirement age in Singapore will be raised to from 62 to 63 and the re-employment age from 67 to 68. By 2030, the retirement age is set to be raised to 65 and the re-employment age to be increased to 70. Under this framework, employers cannot terminate an employee on grounds of age before the statutory retirement age. “Workers have the assurance of continued employment up till the statutory re-employment age if they are able and wish to do so,” said Tan See Leng, Singapore’s Manpower Minister.
JAPAN
JAPANESE WORKERS HAPPY WITH JOB CHANGE A RECENTLY RELEASED SURVEY conducted by Japan’s
INDONESIA
INDONESIA PRIORITISES WORKPLACE SAFETY AND WORKER’S HEALTH BUDI GUNADI SADIKIN, Indonesia’s Health Minister, has called for more attention to be paid to the safety of workers in the workplace, particularly their health. He said, “The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of the importance of occupational health and safety to protect workers from the potential dangers of occupational diseases and other health problems, including infectious diseases or diseases that are currently endemic.”
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HRM ASIA.COM
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021
Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry found that 53.4% of respondents said they are satisfied with their new jobs, while 11.4% said they are not. About 10,000 people who had changed jobs from around 17,000 offices with five or more employees responded to the survey. They were people who switched jobs between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020. The gap between the satisfied and dissatisfied stood at 42.0 percentage points, which is slightly lower than the 43.0 percentage-point difference in the previous survey conducted in 2015.
