The Real Singapore
To: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Acting Minister of Manpower.
Mr Tan, you still unable to come down to ground zero & understand the local casualties among Singaporeans, caused by your PAP Government pro-foreigner policies. The consequences of these policies have led many local PMETs to premature unemployment & forcefully early retirement.
As explained during countless number of meetings held between your PAP Government, PAP-linked local unions & of course, not forgetting the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF), local Singaporean workers have no issue with those foreign workers (FW), holding work permits. These workers are indispensable & basically, they hold down to jobs that most Singaporeans not keen to take up. These sectors are mainly in construction, manufacturing, shipyard engineering, F&B customer service & domestic help.
In the mentioned sectors, as Minister in charge of Ministry of Manpower (MOM), you should try not impose unnecessary policies & restrictions, whereby intake quotas for such workers need to be sustained on longer period of time, especially in the booming sector of construction.
Singaporeans' main bone of contention lies mainly in the unrestraint issuance of S-Pass during the last 10 years or so. The continuance of employing these foreigners under S-Pass is the main sole reason why there is a prevailing wage suppression among local junior or middle-level PMETs. These foreigners are employed on a lower renumeration, as compared to local Singaporeans with similar qualifications. Employers are always eager to hire them as staff expenses on these S-pass foreigners are much lower, in terms of salary & non-existent employer's CPF contribution. Simply said, these so-called 'foreign talents' are simply 'stealing' jobs from ITE / Poly / recent Uni graduates. Full Letter
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