FAP Secretly Allowing Close to 100% Employment of Foreigners in Companies

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[h=3]Boycott food outlets that hire many foreigners: Transitioning.org founder[/h]

inSing.com, 23 Apr 2012
Transitioning.org, a website that champions the rights of the unemployed, is calling for "a nationwide boycott of F&B outlets that more than 80 per cent foreigners" in its workforce.
The suggested boycott, which will last for a month in May, is to protest against how employers maximise profits by hiring cheaper foreign labour while claiming that Singaporeans shun the jobs, the website's editor Gilbert Goh said in the post that was put up today.
"Employers have always come up with the excuse that local Singaporeans do not want to work in the F&B industry but my question to them is have they try (sic) hard enough? Full story

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[h=1]Skip food joints that hire many foreigners, website say[/h]
by Ansley Ng
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<CITE>Some netizens have shot down Mr Goh’s plan to boycott F&B outlets that hires many foreigners. (Pic / Wikimedia Commons)</CITE>
An audacious call to boycott food outlets in Singapore that hire many foreigners is drawing fire online.
Transitioning.org, a website that champions the rights of the unemployed, is calling for "a nationwide boycott of F&B outlets that more than 80 per cent foreigners" in its workforce.
The suggested boycott, which will last for a month in May, is to protest against how employers maximise profits by hiring cheaper foreign labour while claiming that Singaporeans shun the jobs, the website's editor Gilbert Goh said in the post that was put up today.
"Employers have always come up with the excuse that local Singaporeans do not want to work in the F&B industry but my question to them is have they try (sic) hard enough?
"Are they paying our local workers adequately as they can't compare the needs of the local workers with those who are foreigners." he said.
"We can't survive on $1,000 a month working six days a week for ten hours a day," he said.
Citing several outlets like BreadTalk, Han's, Toast Box and Crystal Jade, Mr Goh, who contested in the 2011 General Election under the National Solidarity Party ticket, said "gone are the older local Singaporeans that used to work in most of these popular F & B outlets".
"Their businesses in no way benefit Singaporeans and they only do it solely for the profits," he added. "We want F&B businesses to hire at least 30 per cent local Singaporeans if not more in their workforce."
He is also calling on people to eat in hawker centres because the stalls there cannot hire foreigners.
Mr Goh did not say how the staff ratio will be verified.
But responding to a netizen Kenneth Lim who called his suggestion "ridiculous", Mr Goh said people planning to boycott should "use their discretion or check with (the outlets)".
Mr Goh set up a survey on the website to ask if people would support the boycott. At 6pm, the survey only attracted 74 participants, out of which 54 said they would carry out the boycott.
The call to skip F&B outlets has attracted more criticism than support, with many saying it was impossible to carry out the boycott as there are many foreigners working in F&B outlets.
A netizen who goes by the online moniker DuracellRabbid said Mr Goh was targeting the wrong type of foreigners.
Rather than focusing on those who take jobs that Singaporeans shun, Mr Goh should target incompetent foreigners and the boycott at those who want to live in Singapore but refuse to adapt to the culture here.
"A lot of dumb Singaporeans think that the war is against all foreigners," the netizen said "But the truth is that not all foreigners are bad. We should be targeting against these black sheeps (sic)."

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[laksaboy]

Then again, for the shit wages they are paying, those 'FTs' can jolly well keep those jobs.

Keep in mind also that Breadtalk also hires managers and executives who work behind the scenes. They don't have to wear a baker's attire uniform or actually bake bread, stock the shelves etc.

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

Just a few days back, i went to United Square for a buffet spree with my buddy at Vienna. From what we saw, more than 80% of the staffs there are PRC. This is the last time i m stepping into that restaurant. :oIo:

 

[Unrepented]

Some companies work around the situation by outsourcing labour which are all the FTs, just to beat the legal ratio requirements. So the company just pay labour sub contractor, and the workers are not under the company's payroll.:(

 

[Cruxx]

Told u guys liao. Sinkieland is not a cuntry. Be glad that the Lees allow you to stay in his fiefdom. Whoever they allow into this island is none of your business.

 

[Kinana]

We Singkies don't want to do those jobs, let the FTs have it.

 

[Bigfuck]

Most businesses are only supposed to have 25% foreigners, excluding Malaysians, and except the Marine industry, maybe up to 50-60. So if you see 80-100%, you know what to do already.

 

[singveld]

we will have to boycott the gov too.

 

[Bigfuck]

we will have to boycott the gov too.

No, I like having 70% of the PAP as FTs, especially, some of the cabinet positions.

 

[HTOLAS]

Sadly, no. This is one area where they jealously guard it for themselves and a handful of converted FTs. Their criteria for accepting FTs is also different - it's not that they are cheap but that they are 'talents'.

we will have to boycott the gov too.

 

[jw5]

Sadly, no. This is one area where they jealously guard it for themselves and a handful of converted FTs. Their criteria for accepting FTs is also different - it's not that they are cheap but that they are 'talents'.

Having a "foreign talent" homestay programme with ministars should resolve this problem quite quickly.