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SH just hired 10 Filipinos as customer service staff at its outpatient clinics
June 20th, 2011 | Author: Editorial
Despite Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s promise to restrict the inflow of foreigners, they are still entering Singapore by the droves which show no signs of abating.
According to a tip-off we received from a staff working at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), the hospital just hired 10 Filipinos as customer service staff to work at its outpatient clinics which operate from 9am to 6pm daily from Mondays to Fridays.
The Filipinos were paid $1,650 monthly together with a $350 monthly housing allowance as well as medical insurance. They were reportedly brought in by an agent and sent for their work permit health checkup immediately on arrival in Singapore after which they started work a day later.
The TTSH staff who wished to remain anonymous, expressed her disbelief at the large number of Filipinos that TTSH is mass-recruiting.
‘At first I thought there is a severe manpower shortage in the outpatient clinics as Singaporeans do not want be PSAs (Personal Service Assistants) due to the low pay, but I was shocked that the Filipinos are paid so high. Any ITE or diploma graduate will be happy to take the job. Why didn’t they offer to locals first?’
Besides PSAs, TTSH also employed large number of foreigners as doctors, nurses, nursing aides and therapists. The only department without a foreigner is the Medical Social Work department.
Due to the high turnover rate of nurses, new foreign nurses are being recruited yearly and there are rumors that the hospital is now switching to India as it is difficult to attract even the Filipino nurses who are paid higher than local nursing graduates from Nanyang Polytechnic.
A doctor working for a medical group told TRE that she noticed an increased number of foreign workers coming to Singapore after GE2011 based on the number of work permit/SP/EP and social visit pass examinations she is doing daily:
‘The numbers are definitely increasing. I am seeing at least 60 cases a day, up from 50 in the past. The EP holders and PRs are bringing their parents over too and the workload is definitely getting heavier.’
PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew proclaimed on the eve of polling day that Singapore still needs 900,000 foreign workers on work permit. Singaporeans must now ‘repent’ and put up another 5 years of mass influx of foreigners thanks to the PAP.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2011/06/2...omer-service-staff-at-its-outpatient-clinics/
June 20th, 2011 | Author: Editorial
Despite Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s promise to restrict the inflow of foreigners, they are still entering Singapore by the droves which show no signs of abating.
According to a tip-off we received from a staff working at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), the hospital just hired 10 Filipinos as customer service staff to work at its outpatient clinics which operate from 9am to 6pm daily from Mondays to Fridays.
The Filipinos were paid $1,650 monthly together with a $350 monthly housing allowance as well as medical insurance. They were reportedly brought in by an agent and sent for their work permit health checkup immediately on arrival in Singapore after which they started work a day later.
The TTSH staff who wished to remain anonymous, expressed her disbelief at the large number of Filipinos that TTSH is mass-recruiting.
‘At first I thought there is a severe manpower shortage in the outpatient clinics as Singaporeans do not want be PSAs (Personal Service Assistants) due to the low pay, but I was shocked that the Filipinos are paid so high. Any ITE or diploma graduate will be happy to take the job. Why didn’t they offer to locals first?’
Besides PSAs, TTSH also employed large number of foreigners as doctors, nurses, nursing aides and therapists. The only department without a foreigner is the Medical Social Work department.
Due to the high turnover rate of nurses, new foreign nurses are being recruited yearly and there are rumors that the hospital is now switching to India as it is difficult to attract even the Filipino nurses who are paid higher than local nursing graduates from Nanyang Polytechnic.
A doctor working for a medical group told TRE that she noticed an increased number of foreign workers coming to Singapore after GE2011 based on the number of work permit/SP/EP and social visit pass examinations she is doing daily:
‘The numbers are definitely increasing. I am seeing at least 60 cases a day, up from 50 in the past. The EP holders and PRs are bringing their parents over too and the workload is definitely getting heavier.’
PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew proclaimed on the eve of polling day that Singapore still needs 900,000 foreign workers on work permit. Singaporeans must now ‘repent’ and put up another 5 years of mass influx of foreigners thanks to the PAP.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2011/06/2...omer-service-staff-at-its-outpatient-clinics/