PM just announce that 5 day work for all civil

[andysho]

PM just announce that all civil side will change to 5 day work week

include army side too~~~

guess it is a good news for those in the army side sia

[minsmarine]

Ha no good for ppl not from civil servent. like me. It's mean if need to do something with goverment service, than need to take leave

[Creetin]

Tot civil service should serve public by opening on sats?

[RAV-65]

PM just announce that all civil side will change to 5 day work week

include army side too~~~

guess it is a good news for those in the army side sia

Huh?! izit true?!?!

[kee]

huh.. wat do it mean?? can come out on friday?? then when go back.

[ReDDeviLs]

those under government who need to work on sat will get their off on 1 of the weekends.. thats what i heard from him.. unless i heard wrongly

[flubberina13]

anybody has the webby to read any of PM's briefs?

TIA...

[thc]

Sounds like bad news to me.......i think there is more to it.....Just hope it's not pay cut ....

[flubberina13]

Got the webby...try this...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/ndp2004/rally/highlights.htm

http://www.gov.sg/

[bum]

please,

5 day week....BUT

no reduction in work hours,

and those activities that have to be carried out on saturdays will

still need to be carried out.

so guard duties, saturday CCAs will still

have to be done, right?

i'm still skeptical

[flubberina13]

please,

5 day week....BUT

no reduction in work hours,

and those activities that have to be carried out on saturdays will

still need to be carried out.

so guard duties, saturday CCAs will still

have to be done, right?

i'm still skeptical

yalor...

When can we really have Saturdays off...that why I taking no pay in T4.

[nicky30092002]

Sounds like bad news to me.......i think there is more to it.....Just hope it's not pay cut ....

one more day to go LFSing ...

[thc]

LFSing....hmmmm, that is a good idea......

Btw, i read thru the speech very carefully, he only mentioned 5 days work, but never state the working hours of the 5 days.

If the working hour is extended from '0800H to 1720H' to '0800H to 1820H', it covers the working hours of Saturday from '0800H to 1200H'.....Still think there is something behind all this....

Reduced number of days working + same amount of work to be completed = OT, OT and OT

[aong]

Yea, but I think it's fair to "cover" back the hours if u think linearly.... isn't that so in the pte sector as well?

At any rate, the 5day wking week is surely good news for civil servants! imagine the hassle if u live far from ur working place that u potentially can save ;p

[Siput]

Come on, pple, 5 days is far better than wasting a Sat morning, right???

Operationally, show must go on for those counter services...how many of u want to take half day leave just to go to HDB or CPF for eg? These I prefer to do on saturdays....I think they did mention that those who have to work Sats can take another of the weekdays off (for eg Mon)...hope this and all other points get paased soon....

Flubbie, imaging an add'l 2 days off to take your son out..

[jesperlam]

Only those in the Government service Office Hours is included in this. Uniform man eg. Police & Civil Defence still have to do their shifts. Think this only benefits the office hours ppl.

[Chris]

5 day week means LFS will be very crowded on Saturdays.....yeah!

[flubberina13]

Hmmm...shall we take it with some salt or champagne?

Well...just have to wait and see...

[weileong]

Only those in the Government service Office Hours is included in this. Uniform man eg. Police & Civil Defence still have to do their shifts. Think this only benefits the office hours ppl.

That means they will get off during the weekdays... still good news for them

[jesperlam]

No la...my friends in the police force do shifts even on public holidays. Its all according to their roster divided into 4 teams in a division. 2 Days work 2 days off...but still not bad already...haha

[wolfie]

Details wil b announced tml (or so I heard)...

For the Army side, my worry is Guard Duty... If Sat reali off, den Sat's GD is as good (or bad ) as Sun's GD... That's not very good news...

For the Public Service sector (eg, CPF, HDB blah blah blah), they will still open on Saturday. (As obtained from MINDEF's intranet).

Basically, I'd believe that "he whose presence is not needed on Saturday can stay @ hm and sleep" and "he whose presence is need will have to come back". S/t to tt extend.

[mv3i]

juz have to wait for teh final BAD news again .... it's really amazing how they package it to sound like it's the best thing that can happen to u n me .... n then ... they drop the bomb on u !

side tracking fm the 5 days week ... slightly ....

juz curious ... any civil servants out there ??

As the private sector is moving into variable components of pay is the civil sector doing that too ??? i'm sure many here can vouch for that !

if so , what are the % involve .... ??

thanks

[thc]

Like i've said, everything will be balanced off some how or rather. You can never have best of both world

[wolfie]

i muz agree with thc.

in my sector, we have man-hours to fulfill... and now we're worried that the 5-day work hours will be lengthen to fulfill the necessary man-hours...

[Creetin]

lengthening of hours is justified i guess. cant expect to give them a day off just like that rite?