Another panel speaker, Jolovan Wham, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Organisation for Migrant Economics (HOME), agreed and said migrant workers are easy to take advantage of.
"The reason local workers are displaced is because migrant workers are easy to exploit so the solution is not to target these foreigners. This is a huge concern for me,” added Wham Leong said among those being exploited are students from neighbouring universities who came to Singapore to serve their internship.
“Many the waiters and waitresses earn S$450 and you know why? I did some checking and to my horror, all these interns are not counted in the foreign worker quota so employers can employ as many of them as they like because they don’t count in the foreign worker quota. so if you’re an employer, you can get this slave for six months for S$450 and the slave will work extremely hard,” he said. Full story
