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The unemployment rate for the other educational levels is actually higher! In fact, for those with a secondary education or lower, they have the highest unemployment rate in Singapore.
If those with lower educational qualifications are the most vulnerable in our workforce, shouldn’t this new framework be catered for them instead? Isn’t it misplaced that this framework is meant to protect (only) the degree holders?
Foreign Worker Levies Are Not Protecting Singaporean Workers
I then looked at the MOM’s press release on the framework and found this: “We have not made this (framework) compulsory for firms submitting applications for S passes or Work Permits, because there are other tools, such as levies and dependency ratio ceilings that spur firms to search for suitable Singaporeans before applying for an S pass or Work Permit.”
What the MOM is saying is that this new framework would not cover Singaporeans competing with S passes and Work Permits because there are already foreign worker levies and dependency ratio ceilings which protect the Singaporean workers. So, what the MOM is saying is that Singapore residents with primary, secondary, post-secondary and diploma educational level qualifications would not have as much trouble getting employment because of these additional “tools”.
But clearly, from Chart (B) above, these “tools” are not working because the unemployment rate is the highest among Singapore residents competing with the S passes and Work Permit holders.
- http://thehearttruths.com/2013/09/2...deration-framework-only-cover-degree-holders/
If those with lower educational qualifications are the most vulnerable in our workforce, shouldn’t this new framework be catered for them instead? Isn’t it misplaced that this framework is meant to protect (only) the degree holders?
Foreign Worker Levies Are Not Protecting Singaporean Workers
I then looked at the MOM’s press release on the framework and found this: “We have not made this (framework) compulsory for firms submitting applications for S passes or Work Permits, because there are other tools, such as levies and dependency ratio ceilings that spur firms to search for suitable Singaporeans before applying for an S pass or Work Permit.”
What the MOM is saying is that this new framework would not cover Singaporeans competing with S passes and Work Permits because there are already foreign worker levies and dependency ratio ceilings which protect the Singaporean workers. So, what the MOM is saying is that Singapore residents with primary, secondary, post-secondary and diploma educational level qualifications would not have as much trouble getting employment because of these additional “tools”.
But clearly, from Chart (B) above, these “tools” are not working because the unemployment rate is the highest among Singapore residents competing with the S passes and Work Permit holders.
- http://thehearttruths.com/2013/09/2...deration-framework-only-cover-degree-holders/
