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YOUR LETTERS
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Don't axe staff based on nationality
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I refer to last Sunday's article, 'Jobs being cut during crisis'.
It does not make any economic sense that foreigners should be the first to go in difficult times if they have contributed, and can continue to contribute, to our economy.
All things being equal, I would prefer a Singaporean worker to a foreign one if the job requires only one person.
However, we must avoid a situation where a capable foreign worker has to make way for a Singaporean who is unproductive.
Companies may consider retrenchment as a last resort, and workers who are persistently inefficient should not be retained, no matter what their nationalities.
Companies which have relied on foreign labour should be circumspect about retrenching them now. Otherwise, they may find it difficult to attract them when the economy rebounds. Jeffrey Law
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YOUR LETTERS
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I refer to last Sunday's article, 'Jobs being cut during crisis'.
It does not make any economic sense that foreigners should be the first to go in difficult times if they have contributed, and can continue to contribute, to our economy.
All things being equal, I would prefer a Singaporean worker to a foreign one if the job requires only one person.
However, we must avoid a situation where a capable foreign worker has to make way for a Singaporean who is unproductive.
Companies may consider retrenchment as a last resort, and workers who are persistently inefficient should not be retained, no matter what their nationalities.
Companies which have relied on foreign labour should be circumspect about retrenching them now. Otherwise, they may find it difficult to attract them when the economy rebounds. Jeffrey Law
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