#229 - Healthcare workers to receive $4K reward & F45 studio posts racially insensitive video

To recognise their “courage and invaluable work”, the Ministry of Health will be awarding 100,000 public healthcare workers $4,000 each. We discuss what this gesture means, and if it’s enough to stem the tide of healthcare workers leaving the industry in 2021. Elsewhere, an F45 fitness studio faced backlash for posting a “Happy Deepavali” greeting video featuring 2 of their members making racially insensitive gestures. How could this have happened, after the racial issues we’ve been facing in the past year?

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Healthcare workers to receive $4K reward

• 100,000 public healthcare workers involved in Covid-19 fight to get $4,000 each - The Straits Times
• MOH | News Highlights
• Adding Covid-19 ICU beds takes time, healthcare manpower constraints 'most important' bottleneck: MOH - TODAY
• Resignation rates among healthcare workers in Singapore up this year; MOH to increase ICU capacity - CNA
• Allowing healthcare workers to go on leave will bring them 'much-needed relief': Ong Ye Kung
• Budget debate: Pay hikes for over 56,000 public healthcare workers from July; nurses get up to 14% more - The Straits Times
• 'I haven't seen the daylight in ages': Pressure on healthcare workers as COVID-19 cases spike - CNA

F45 studio posts racially insensitive video

• F45 fitness studio in Serangoon Garden apologises for ‘racially insensitive’ Deepavali video - TODAY

• Comment by Extreme_Virus

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