They are indeed SPVs as they offload risk from the balance sheet and still draw an income. Good point.
Good but obvious point.
So no need to manipulate annonymous internet monikers ok scroobal, you cunning moron?
They are indeed SPVs as they offload risk from the balance sheet and still draw an income. Good point.
It's a common practice now for FnB joints to work their staff split shifts for 6 days a week. Which in actually fact 12 hours or 72 hours a week. It's even worst for kitchen staff because you end up doing free work during your splits because that's the only time that prep work can be done. Add traveling time and you got another 12 hours out in the shithole.
In ang mo countries, the ang mos tip the waiters not only because its a practice and a show of appreciation, they also know that its hard work and the waiters' pay are low. So tipping is a way of motivation and beefing up their income.
In Singapore, we are forced to pay the 10% service charge and where does the money goes to?
Seems rather unfair to get people to do prep work during shifts. I know that NTUC is hopeless but surely this is quite blatant abuse.
The wages in F&B are NOT artificially depressed.
Assuming a person works 4 hours a day during the weekday evenings and 8 hours on the weekends, that person can earn $1728 to $2160 per month as a waiter. This is a relatively attractive wage. The problem is that few Singaporeans are keen to work these hours which are the peak periods if you run a F&B business. They would all rather work office hours which is why the pay during the office hours is so low. Implementing a minimum wage (e.g. $8 an hour) won't solve the problem since the issue is not low wages during office hours but that no one wants to work the weekday evenings and weekends.
The only way you can get Singaporeans to work weekday evenings and weekends is if they own the business. This was the case when mom and pop operations dominated the F&B industry. The PAP messed the whole industry up by opening up to FT and killing off most of the mom and pop operations. With these gone, we are now stuck with the chains with their lousy overpriced food served by armies of lowly paid "FT".
Employers should just take the business out of Singapore and teach some of your fuckers a lesson.
Not shortage of manpower but shortage of cheap labour for them to maximise their profit.
these F&B owners want workers to work 12hr shift with $1000 pay.
I blame the pap for spoiling these owners, addicting them with cheap labour, slavery and giving them false hope.
the days of cheap labour and slavery in SG is over and the sooner they wake up, the better it is for SG
Not shortage of manpower but shortage of cheap labour for them to maximise their profit.
The wages in F&B are NOT artificially depressed.
Assuming a person works 4 hours a day during the weekday evenings and 8 hours on the weekends, that person can earn $1728 to $2160 per month as a waiter. This is a relatively attractive wage. The problem is that few Singaporeans are keen to work these hours which are the peak periods if you run a F&B business. They would all rather work office hours which is why the pay during the office hours is so low. Implementing a minimum wage (e.g. $8 an hour) won't solve the problem since the issue is not low wages during office hours but that no one wants to work the weekday evenings and weekends.
The only way you can get Singaporeans to work weekday evenings and weekends is if they own the business. This was the case when mom and pop operations dominated the F&B industry. The PAP messed the whole industry up by opening up to FT and killing off most of the mom and pop operations. With these gone, we are now stuck with the chains with their lousy overpriced food served by armies of lowly paid "FT".
The problem with the F&B industry is that most Singaporeans DO NOT want to work evenings, weekends and public holidays. If you look at adverts, the pay for office hours average $6 per hour. Evenings, weekends and public holidays, it shoots up to $12 to $15 an hour with still no takers.
The solution to the problem is NOT more FT but a return to the past. The F&B industry today are cluttered with chains serving lousy overpriced food. If you look back to the 80's and 90s, you will probably remember a time when the F&B industry was filled with small mom and pop outlets. The food was cheaper and tasted much better. As these were family run enterprises, there was never a need to have an army of lowly paid foreign workers. The families ran the outlets and put in whatever hours without complaint as it was their own business.
We are in the mess we are in today thanks mainly to to Ng Eng Hen and later Gan Kim Yong who opened up the sector to FT and decimated the mom and pop eateries.
In ang mo countries, the ang mos tip the waiters not only because its a practice and a show of appreciation, they also know that its hard work and the waiters' pay are low. So tipping is a way of motivation and beefing up their income.
In Singapore, we are forced to pay the 10% service charge and where does the money goes to?
Tend to disagree on the first point but agree on the second point. The wage figures quoted seem rather high for a waiter and reminiscent of the past. Acknowledge the split shift and the weekend stint but this characteristic of the F&B industry the world over. You seldom see a waiter past the age of 30 let alone 40 or 50 which is a local. Not so in the West and they too face the same working regime.
The wages in F&B are NOT artificially depressed.
Assuming a person works 4 hours a day during the weekday evenings and 8 hours on the weekends, that person can earn $1728 to $2160 per month as a waiter. This is a relatively attractive wage.
What restaurants are you referring to that offers these wages? I have more than 20 years experience in peesai FnB line, there is no difference in pay for busy areas like Orchard and non busy areas in peesai. Now current max for wait staff is 8 bucks or less an hour. Even for skilled experience cooks or chef who wants to work part time is about the same hourly rate.
You must have gotten Australia and peesai mixed up. There is no high wages for work at night or weekends. It is the same rate across the board. If you have any links of at least 10 places in peesai that offers more pay for night shift and weekends, please post here for all to see.
Whereas anybody here can go to gumtree and call up all the restaurants that are offering positions and asked for themselves how much the rate is. Even the casinos restaurants are paying less than 8 bucks an hour.
Assume that there is no difference between weekday and weekend pay rates, for simplifying calculations:
(4*5) + (8*2) = 20 + 16 = 36 hours per week.
$1728 / 36 ho: