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09-03-2023 01:06 AM |
The work week as defined by MOM is 44h long. Even though public servants are not protected by the employment act, the 44h serves as a good guideline on the amount of workload anyone in Singapore is expected to do.
OT by a few hours each week, if don't want to be calculative, still can close one eye.
When work way exceeds the limit, then it is not about being calculative. It is about standing up against exploitation. There are many who stay in school for 12h daily, and continue to work when they return home, and even work across the weekend. It is saddening to say that 80-90h week is not uncommon.
Basically 1 person doing 2 persons workload, while collecting 1 person's pay.
And the worst part is, after sacrificing health and personal time, the person get a C grade during appraisal, because the work done 'is not impactful enough'.
There is nothing wrong with doing what one is paid to do.
If someone is really not performing up to the expectations expected of their paygrade, by all means terminate them. However, most people are performing up to expectations. When the job descriptions were written, they were written with the legal 44h norm in mind, not with the perverse 'new normal' that many have grown too used to.
GEO5 is meant to be a normal classroom teacher. It is not a KP level paygrade, nor are GEO5s meant to be STs.
A normal teacher shouldn't be expected to lead or manage other duties outside of classroom teaching. Leading should be the responsibility of the management. They are appointed as the management for a reason.
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