{"id":96125,"date":"2025-07-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=96125"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:00:00","slug":"commentary-when-employees-abuse-sick-leave-and-employers-overreact-everyone-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=96125","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: When employees abuse sick leave and employers overreact, everyone loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frontline businesses and SMEs have real concerns about malingering, but overreacting is probably not worth the cost in trust, says Victor Seah of the Singapore University of Social Sciences.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/certis-mc-sick-leave-abuse-flexi-work-fwa-employers-5251431\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontline businesses and SMEs have real concerns about malingering, but overreacting is probably not worth the cost in trust, says Victor Seah of the Singapore University of Social Sciences.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-96125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}