I think the benefits for a staff who is a CONFIRMED permanent staff and a permanent staff UNDER PROBATION can be different. A couple of examples below:

(1) Resignation notice period - A permanent staff under probation can quit the company by giving a month's notice but a confirmed permanent staff is required to give 3-month quit notice. Similarly, the company may not confirm the permanent staff under probation and can ask the staff to leave the company at the end of the probation period. The company can only fire a confirmed permanent staff due to gross misconduct by the staff who has violated company rules and regulations, only after a few rounds of caution notices given to the staff.

(2) Benefits - Only confirmed permanent staff enjoy full benefits as stated in the employment handbook. examples (i) annual bonus - Usually annual bonus performance is given to confirmed permanent staff only. (ii) medical leave is not accorded to unconfirmed permanent staff and medical benefits are for staff only and not extended to staff's spouse and children.

You need to read your employment terms and conditions again and check with the HR whether you are accorded with the same benefits as the confirmed permanent staff. Don't take this for granted.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Oct 29 2013, 01:22 PM

Process Engineers are graduates from chemical engineering.

In my opinion, it takes 1 to 2 years of on-the-job engineering training for a fresh engineering graduate to shift his 'student engineering' thinking to a graduate engineer thinking. And it takes a further 3 to 4 years of more rigourous engineering working experience for a graduate engineer to transform himself to a "real engineer".

This post has been edited by Stamp: Oct 29 2013, 01:37 PM