Ms Amy Cheong, 37, a University of Western Australia graduate, had worked full-time for slightly more than a year at NTUC headquarters before her services were terminated yesterday. As assistant director in NTUC's partnership alliance section, Ms Cheong planned membership programmes, but was not involved in union work.
The Straits Times was unable to reach her on her mobile phone, or to verify her marital status through her former employer, NTUC. He was responding to public reaction after a woman's comments lashing out at Malays holding weddings in spaces under public housing flats. The woman has since been fired from her job and issued a public apology. Amy Cheong made the comments on her Facebook account on Sunday.
One of her posts was laden with expletives and included insensitive remarks directed at the minority Malay community. Her posts - which have since been deleted - went viral, with more than 10, comments and shares, and screenshots distributed on other online forums and blogs. Ms Cheong was fired from her job on Monday morning and a local newspaper reported that she had left for Australia. The Straits Times was unable to reach her on her mobile phone, or to verify her marital status through her former employer, NTUC.
From her Twitter account, it was clear she had spent the early hours of Monday morning doing damage control, with 78 tweets apologising to individuals who had contacted her.
One read: "Thank you to all who accept my apology. I have learnt a huge lesson from this. I am really sorry. But Ms Cheong also appeared to have briefly lost her cool in response to a tweet publicising her offending posts. These comments were made on her personal Facebook page. On 7 October , Amy Cheong took to Facebook to lament about the noise caused by Malay weddings held at void decks of housing estates.
She then asserted that the allegedly high divorce rates in Singapore were attributed to the cheap nature of Malay void deck weddings, stating that these weddings were not "real weddings". The disparaging remarks caused many members of the Malay community as well as Singaporeans in general to feel offended. It has garnered 18, likes as of 21 January He stated that the action taken was a hard decision for him to make, knowing that the impact on Amy Cheong would be great.
However, he asserted that one of the core values of NTUC is inclusiveness, and Amy Cheong had failed to uphold this core value.
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