Jobs aplenty, but hard work and low pay turn off locals

[BuiKia]

LCB, pay not high enough those MIW dun even want to be MP but they expect the people to take below market rate pay?

MORE jobs were available in Singapore last year, but locals are still not biting - not when many of the jobs are considered hard work with low pay.

An annual report released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) yesterday revealed that there were 61,900 jobs on the market last September, up nearly 10 per cent from the previous year.

Most of them were in the services sector, confirming that the industry was squeezed badly by the tighter foreign-worker policies introduced last year.

According to MOM, one in four was for service roles such as sales assistants, waiters and security guards. Four in five openings were from the services sector as a whole.

Worse still, four out of 10 jobs which were left unfilled for at least six months were for non-PMET (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) roles.

This includes service and sales workers, as well as cleaners, labourers and related workers.

The MOM report said the proportion of openings considered hard to fill with locals remained unchanged from a year ago, at 66 per cent.

These were mostly in lower-skilled jobs, with employers citing unattractive pay and physically strenuous work as the top reasons why Singaporeans were not interested.

Industry experts were not surprised.

Mr Ronald Lee, managing director of PrimeStaff Management Services, pointed out that these jobs have been "filled by foreigners for too long", and come with a social stigma.

"The work involved is also usually tough and back-breaking, requiring long shift hours," he said.

"Most Singaporeans don't want to work in an environment that may be unpleasant, as may be the case for those in the cleaning sector."

With unemployment at only 1.8 per cent last year, Singaporeans prefer to take on jobs that come with fixed hours, rather than those in the cleaning and security sectors, said Mr Erman Tan, president of Singapore Human Resources Institute.

Higher salaries can help, said Mr Michael Smith, country director of human resource firm Randstad.

Earlier this month, it was announced that the progressive wage model will be legislated in the cleaning and security sectors, starting from September.

Cleaners, for instance, will earn at least $1,000 a month, up from their current median basic wage of $820.

Raising wages need not necessarily mean higher costs for consumers, said Mr Smith, as a "rise in salary can often lead to productivity gains".

But companies also need to go beyond fair wages to offer other incentives, such as job security and career progression, said labour Member of Parliament Zainal Sapari.

"Most of the jobs in the cleaning and security sectors are contract-based. We need to afford these workers more stability in their jobs, and create growth opportunities," he said.

"The most important thing is to change public perception - that these jobs are just like any other jobs. People need to learn how to appreciate and respect these jobs and what the workers do."

 

[chootchiew]

This fucking job market has already been spoilt by the MIW. Employers already got used to offering low wages even if FT quota are not allowed by MOM.

 

[winnipegjets]

Foreigners get the pmet jobs, leaving sinkees with the dirt jobs.

 

[Hans168]

Foreigners get the pmet jobs, leaving sinkees with the dirt jobs.

so blatantly true but PAP refuse to acknowledge it!! Nor doing anything about it..... poor PMETs either under-emplyed or unemployed still have to pay GST (govt claimed it was to help the poor - how so???).

 

[escher]

This fucking job market has already been spoilt by the MIW. Employers already got used to offering low wages even if FT quota are not allowed by MOM.

of cos what!


Stinkies all head down down and arseholes up high high begging, just begging to be fucked and tiewed by PAP and whatever policies they want to ram down the throats and arseholes
stinkies deserved all that and worse for being so no hui to their rights and having no balls and no hui to people trying to speak for their rights and do not even bother to turn up at Hong Lim Park

FUCK THE STINKIES MORE AND EVEN MORE
THEY DESERVED THE SHIT AND FUCKING FROM PAP

 

[ykhuser]

We Sinkie already say many times over and over again. Is NOT we dont want this low pay job. Is after cpf deduction and after transport deduction, the balance pay is is not enough for anything else.
A pri 1 pupil also know how to calculate .

$1000 pay
-$200 cpf
-$150 transport
balance $650
-7% GST on $650
balance $604.50

which bloody hell can survive on $604 kee chiu when 1 meal simply cost $5

I got 1 proposal.
those below $1k pay does not need to contributed cpf
the revenue collected from gst can be used to top up the $200
those below $2000 contribute 10% cpf
those below $3000 contribute 15% cpf
those below $4000 contribute 20% cpf
any earning above $5k contribute 25% cpf

but the gov will not adopt this because the revenue collected from GST will be used for investement

 

[McDonaldsKid]

But companies also need to go beyond fair wages to offer other incentives, such as job security and career progression, said labour Member of Parliament Zainal Sapari.

"Most of the jobs in the cleaning and security sectors are contract-based. We need to afford these workers more stability in their jobs, and create growth opportunities," he said.

"The most important thing is to change public perception - that these jobs are just like any other jobs. People need to learn how to appreciate and respect these jobs and what the workers do."[\quote]

Pay them a decent wage first before offering other incentives.

 

[Equalisation]

Were Samuel, Taylor and Coleridge somehow involved ?

 

[ykhuser]

Member of Parliament Zainal Sapari.

"Most of the jobs in the cleaning and security sectors are contract-based. We need to afford these workers more stability in their jobs, and create growth opportunities," he said.

"The most important thing is to change public perception - that these jobs are just like any other jobs. People need to learn how to appreciate and respect these jobs and what the workers do."[\quote]

Pay them a decent wage first before offering other incentives.

Zainal Sapari is a cock.
which cock uncle will want to have stability and growth opportunities in the cleaning sectors.
I signed 20 contract with Zainal every month $1000.
20 years i promise you sure have this job...you want?

 

[Hades]

Foreigners get the pmet jobs, leaving sinkees with the dirt jobs.

How can they let their " Pets" to do dirty work? Of course that belongs to sinkees'.

 

[Leongsam]

Singaporeans are a spoilt brats that's why they are afraid of hard work.

 

[samanthachen]

Singaporeans are a spoilt brats that's why they are afraid of hard work.

You not Singaporean?

 

[Leongsam]

You not Singaporean?

I'm a s Singaporean of Persian descent and I'm pretty lazy now.

 

[ChenHaoNan]

I'm a s Singaporean of Persian descent and I'm pretty lazy now.

Persian cat or Persian carpet?

 

[xebay11]

I'm a s Singaporean of Persian descent and I'm pretty lazy now.

Last time you said you were Arabic.

 

[Leongsam]

Last time you said you were Arabic.

I said I was Persian and some idiot thought that Persians were Arabs. I pointed out his extreme ignorance.

 

[nangkhammei]

I said I was Persian and some idiot thought that Persians were Arabs. I pointed out his extreme ignorance.

A Singaporean of Persian descent ... Indeed rare..

 

[wMulew]

It is obvious that the dumbfuck opposition supporting losers in here are in no position to hire anyone. Any individual who is high enough in the corporate ladder to hire others will tell you how true the article is.

 

[laksaboy]

Here lies the age-old problem between 'working to live' and 'living to work'.

Work is more than just a paycheck... it is personal fulfillment. Some folks are enthralled with working in a restaurant. Many more are not. Similarly, some people love doing accounting. Others hate numbers and calculations. Some people are wired to be nurses and social workers and teachers for special needs kids. Others are irked by the notion of having to be personally responsible for the well being of other human beings.

Lee Hsien Loong, just because you have put out a shit sandwich (tons of service sector jobs, minus the protection of unions and a minimum wage law), and no one wants to take a nibble of it, does not mean that the people are overly choosy.

More tellingly, it reveals how much you have screwed up the economy.

 

[Leongsam]

Work is more than just a paycheck... it is personal fulfillment. Some folks are enthralled with working in a restaurant. Many more are not. Similarly, some people love doing accounting. Others hate numbers and calculations. Some people are wired to be nurses and social workers and teachers for special needs kids. Others are irked by the notion of having to be personally responsible for the well being of other human beings.

There is absolutely nothing stopping a person who dreams of being an accountant from becoming one and if you make a better accountant than the competition, the rewards will follow. Same goes with any other field. Nurses are in huge demand throughout the world. So to are teachers of special needs kids.

LHL is not preventing anyone from following their dreams.