Re: Foreign indian vp at deutsche bank criticise singaporeans for being entitled
With regards to "easily employing a foreigner for a job when a local can do the job", I believe this situation will gradually change since there's now the "Consider Singaporeans First" policy mandated by the government (refer to my earlier post #32). However, if eventually the locals still don't want to take up the job, who should be blamed then?
I can confidently tell you that in general, the locals rejected the jobs because of the mismatch of salary expectations. Otherwise, they may also not stay long in their jobs due to the same reason. I learned this from both the bosses and the applicants. Don't forget that in my course of work previously, I also have many local clients with factories in Sinkie Land and I often chat about their workforce conditions with them because we have to provide the training to new staff when requested by our clients although these training are also chargeable.
In Australia, there is indeed some form of protection for the local workforce as after all, it is a country where their unions are very aggressive. On a side-note, I remembered once attending the Mapletree AGM and the CEO was saying that they are staying out of Australia because of their very conservative working regulation/environment. This is what will happen if you are over protective. TOYOTA manufacturing facilities will be leaving Australia after 2017 since they have become commercially inviable to continue with their production. FORD and HOLDEN will also stop manufacturing in 2016 and 2017 respectively. MITSUBISHI had also quit long ago. And their own HOLDEN is barely profitable now. You must also know that in addition to all the 3 above, there are also many local supporting industries which may also have to close down and affect thousands of workers. In Malaysia, there are also many foreign workers overwhelming the locals nowadays. I don't know about the Philippines.
Fair your head. Fair opportunities to local and foreigners means unfair to locals. In every country that I have work dealings before, including Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, there is no such thing as easily employing a foreigner for a job when a local can do the job.
The judgement of fair opportunities was told to me by many Malaysian Chinese. Please go and ask them why? Also, since you are so welcoming them, then I think you should have no problem accommodating to these people.I don't think this is the norm happening in msia. Anyway ask them to convert to Sporeans lor since already in Spore earning SGD. Spore welcome them!
With regards to "easily employing a foreigner for a job when a local can do the job", I believe this situation will gradually change since there's now the "Consider Singaporeans First" policy mandated by the government (refer to my earlier post #32). However, if eventually the locals still don't want to take up the job, who should be blamed then?
I can confidently tell you that in general, the locals rejected the jobs because of the mismatch of salary expectations. Otherwise, they may also not stay long in their jobs due to the same reason. I learned this from both the bosses and the applicants. Don't forget that in my course of work previously, I also have many local clients with factories in Sinkie Land and I often chat about their workforce conditions with them because we have to provide the training to new staff when requested by our clients although these training are also chargeable.
In Australia, there is indeed some form of protection for the local workforce as after all, it is a country where their unions are very aggressive. On a side-note, I remembered once attending the Mapletree AGM and the CEO was saying that they are staying out of Australia because of their very conservative working regulation/environment. This is what will happen if you are over protective. TOYOTA manufacturing facilities will be leaving Australia after 2017 since they have become commercially inviable to continue with their production. FORD and HOLDEN will also stop manufacturing in 2016 and 2017 respectively. MITSUBISHI had also quit long ago. And their own HOLDEN is barely profitable now. You must also know that in addition to all the 3 above, there are also many local supporting industries which may also have to close down and affect thousands of workers. In Malaysia, there are also many foreign workers overwhelming the locals nowadays. I don't know about the Philippines.
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