This is in line with the upcoming Tripartite Guidelines in 2024, which will make it mandatory for employers to fairly and properly consider FWA requests.
Even if they are enlisted for healthcare and social services, it may make manpower shortages in other sectors worse, he said.
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Ng added that such proposals are inadequate justifications to mandate that a person must suspend individual liberties as a civilian, give up two years of his or her life and go to jail if they do not do so, as NS defaulters have been sentenced.