Singtel provides a variety of employee benefits in addition
to complying with statutory requirements such as employer
contributions to the Singapore Central Provident Fund (CPF).
Benefits include comprehensive healthcare insurance, generous
annual leave, health and wellness programmes and staff discounts
on Singtel products and services. Part-time employees enjoy similar
benefits on a pro-rated basis.
Temporary workers are hired through reputable recruitment
agencies and are subject to the terms and conditions of the
respective agency contracts. Temporary employment arrangements
are usually for periods of less than three months.
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We have promoted the awareness of workplace occupational
health, for example, by training 332 Health Managers who
completed an Occupational First Aid Course approved by the
Ministry of Manpower through our training vendor. We also
support our people by providing recreation clubs and
gymnasiums located on-site at our company premises.
We provide a flexible medical scheme to our regular employees
which they can select from a choice of plans that best suit the
particular health care needs for themselves and their families.
The scheme was enhanced recently to include Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM). Employees are also given the option to put their
unused flexible dollars into their own CPF Approved Integrated
Shield Plan as subsidised premiums.
As part of our employee Health and Wellness programme, we offer
free basic health screenings on an annual basis. To encourage
employees to ‘Love Life, Live Well’, we gave away mementos to those
who have shown significant improvement in their medical status
compared to last year’s record. We continue to hold lunch talks and
presentations on various health themes, professional counselling
services and disease management programmes and treatments. We
conduct classes such as healthy cooking and encourage our cafeteria
vendors to offer a range of healthier options for our staff.
With a participation rate of over 90% for our talks and activities
over the last five years, we reached 98.2% participation in FY2012.
This year’s health themes included managing stress, hypertension,
understanding serious diseases, managing middle age, women’s
health matters and managing personal change. |
