GONG XI FAI CAI! It's still the CHINESE NEW YEAR!!
Long time never update the blog liao.. paiseh everyone. Had a great CNY celebrations in Syd with my family who traveled all the way from SG to spend the festival with me and Haz. Of coz, I muz make it a memorable trip for them and us! More on that when I'm more free to download the picts and also the interesting bits about the trip. Currently, busy with preparing for my TAX CA focus sessions this Sat and also my jobs which seems to take quite a bit of my time. Please bear with me ya.. =p
Here's an update on the case that we had held with our SG firm HR when we were back in SG for home leave ard end Dec.... good news...
The long awaited preliminary calculations of what we would be getting from the SG HR for the 'inequalities' that we had to endure for the last 8 months was finally revealed to me yesterday. I was supposed to be the sounding board of the HR to determine whether if the sum to be offered is 'reasonable' or not. Fair. Glad that HR really did consider the reasonableness of the amount instead of just throwing a number at us and say, 'Take it or leave it'.
Overall, the amount is reasonable, by my standards and also relatively our general expectations (majority of us at least). For practical reasons, it is not appropriate to disclose anything more than what I had just mentioned.
Overall, it looks like a sweet success against an 'establishment' as Max had appropriately put it (in the Aussie Seven blog). But, it was never a baseless fight. It was based on valid arguments put forth by us. Kudos to all who stood by it and united we stand. Sweet victory it is!
Glad that we made a difference, both to our seniors (who may be remunerated accordingly), our fellow UK secondees and also our juniors coming on this program!
Also very glad that SG HR is receptive instead of being overly defensive. The fact that they digested our reasons positively and proactively (by reviewing PwC policies AND also the current standard of living differential AND also its ultimate HR policy on EQUITY towards its staff, particularly those of the same grade) shows that this firm is still worth our commitment.
Hopefully, this chapter would close soon with everyone happy. Time to look forward.... TAX CA focus session, Tasmania trip, TAX EP submission, more TAX, more worK... hmm.. sounds interesting? Haha.. it's up to us to make it more interesting... Cheers!
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