MORE free time did not result in more babies, so people should go back to work on Saturdays.

Yesterday, Nominated MP Loo Choon Yong threw up the most provocative suggestion so far when he questioned the benefits of the five-day work week.

Speaking on the second day of the debate on the Budget Statement, he said the move by the public and private sectors in 2004 could have eroded Singaporeans' work ethic, while not improving the fertility rate in any meaningful way.

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