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MOM to raise salary criteria for EP & S Pass: Josephine Teo
This change is part of MOM's plans to help workers and companies weather the Covid-19 crisis.
Julia Yeo
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) intends to help workers and companies tackle the economic disruptions brought about by the pandemic.

One of the changes will be to adjust foreign workforce policies, including raising the salary criteria for Employment Passes (EP) and S Passes.

EP & S Pass criteria
In the addendum to the President's Address on Aug. 26, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said that this adjustment is in response to the economic disruption caused by Covid-19, resulting in more slack in the labour market.

Currently, the minimum monthly salary for foreign professionals to qualify for an Employment Pass is S$3,900 (with more experienced candidates needing higher salaries).

The raised figure has yet to be stated by MOM, however.

Teo said during the Budget debate earlier this year that the criteria takes reference from salaries of locals with similar experience and seniority, ensuring that EP holders do not undercut local PMET wages.

Nearly six in 10 locals in the workforce today are employed in professional, managerial, executive and technician (PMET) jobs.

For every Employment Pass (EP) holder, there are nearly seven locals employed in PMET roles, MOM said.

Even as we stay open to the world, MOM said that businesses will be required to develop and strengthen their "Singaporean core".

Fairness at work, meaningful employment
The addendum further elaborated on the efforts the ministry intends to undertake in order to ensure fairness and inclusiveness at workplaces, and meaningful employment.

This includes fair hiring and retrenchment practices by ensuring employers uphold the Fair Consideration Framework, and closely examining retrenchment exercises to make sure they are carried out fairly.

Uplifting wages at the lower end also remains a key priority, and the progressive wage model (PWM) will be expanded to more sectors.

There will also be regular reviews of the Workfare and Silver Support, and they will continue to look out for gaps in our social safety nets.

To help persons with disabilities (PwDs), the Enabling Employment Credit (EEC) was introduced as a wage offset scheme to support employers to hire PwDs. Additional wage offsets are also provided for these employers when they hire PwDs who have not been working for at least six months.

The EEC will be available from 2021 to 2025, and will undergo a review by MOM after two years to make any necessary adjustments.

MOM will also aim to entrench more flexible work arrangements and create more "family-friendly" workplace practices, with the current "new normal" brought about by the pandemic.

More jobs and training opportunities for S'poreans
Under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills package introduced earlier this year, the National Jobs Council aims to create 100,000 jobs and skill opportunities for Singaporeans.

Workforce Singapore (WSG) will engage employers to provide heavily subsidised training for employees, and encourage employers to hire by supporting them to host traineeships and attachments, by co-funding the training allowance.

More support will also be provided for employers that favourably consider middle-aged and mature workers.

 

[A Singaporean]

Say the same thing everytime over and over again with no visible results. Just stop issue anymore work passes and set quota.

 

[mojito]

Help FTs get a raise?

 

[dodo life]

Raise and raise but still employed. CB

 

[millim6868]

Giving foreigners s raise, knn , ssy 1 EP create 7 local PMET , CB her think we stupid , it is 7 EP create 1 PMET for kocal or even more, knn talk cock in her CB mouth.But 60% dumb ones will believe, this is whsts happening in many workplace including mine.This raise been hspoening for so long, end up WP, S n EP will get a raise as company will pay them more, in the end local suck thumb.

 

[Chase]

don't pretend lah.

so many "overpaid" waiter waitress cooks, customer-service staff on S-Pass, give kickbacks to boss every month, like a long-term government grant to their bosses, and can increase company's legit expenses too.

You want to protect local PMET jobs, you raise income tax significantly for EP, S-Pass and PR holders. Not increase the qualifying income. CHEE BYE!
GET IT RIGHT!

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Even if the salary criteria is $10,000 also got workaround for it what.

Better make sure that the workers don’t pay back the boss after getting the pay. Haa....

 

[zeddy]

This old whore still don't understand. As long as CECA exists, there will still be loopholes for companies in collaboration with these CECA Nehs to exploit whatever latest action the PAP implements. The damage has already been done. It's already too late to implement any new guidelines thanks to the lopsided CECA deal between the stupid naive Pappies and the Ah Neh Government. The Ah Nehs are happy fucking the PAP backsides with many of their CECA agreement demands. Pappies no choice but to give in to the Ah Nehs demands. And in return, the Pappies are fucking the backsides of the local Sinkie workforce.

 

[knnb40]

for the last 20-years, the man in white think we citizen is stupid.
it is just that most Singaporean has old (parents) and young (wife and kids) to take care, therefore LL have to vote P@P.
as more and more young are not getting marry early or have family early and the old do not need the young to support their basic living, the young voter will be more bold, the P@P will see the end of their good day.

but for now, suck thumb for the next 5-year and listen to their wayang.

 

[Chase]

Even if the salary criteria is $10,000 also got workaround for it what.

Better make sure that the workers don’t pay back the boss after getting the pay. Haa....

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Thanks for sharing, that's how they play the system.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Let’s put it this way....

If u increase $100 as criteria for me to hire a cheap foreigner , how is that a deterrent? Even if higher criteria for foreigner, it’s still cheaper to hire them than locals.

 

[pvtpublic]

this would never have happened but for the brave 40%.

the PAP has set themselves up as a party that only responds to the stick over the carrot. the more carrots we give the government, the more stick we get. and vice versa.

nothing exceptional in this. any political party can deliver the same type of results and policies.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Let’s say an engineer position, can hire a foreigner for $4k higher criteria, will the company spend $6k on local instead?

 

[face the facts]

this bitch is a hakka, enough said

 

[knnb40]

Let’s say an engineer position, can hire a foreigner for $4k higher criteria, will the company spend $6k on local instead?

let's say even if the local can accept 4K, the boss still prefer the foreigner, because the foreigner will not talk back to the boss and will not say no to any of the boss's demands.
the business boss do not appreciate smart people, just like our ministers

 

[no_faith]

Sure got flooded by these FT
Water dam also cant hold the sai zui now

 

[A Singaporean]

Sinkies continue to be fucked.

 

[myfoot123]

Sinkies continue to be fucked.

The easiest way to get fuck is to continue voting for PAP. Otherwise it is not easy to fuck sinkies.

 

[birdie69]

let's say even if the local can accept 4K, the boss still prefer the foreigner, because the foreigner will not talk back to the boss and will not say no to any of the boss's demands.
the business boss do not appreciate smart people, just like our ministers

Our JT forgets that our young PMETs need to serve in camp training for at least 10 years and CPF to be contributed by employers, which are the main factors the CECA PMET is preferred. Our employers have the way to deal with the $4600 minimum salary, there is a Chinese saying, 上有政策， 下有对策， our MOM is very naive

 

[CPTMiller]

Say the same thing everytime over and over again with no visible results. Just stop issue anymore work passes and set quota.

I was having my dinner at Bedok food court and another table there is a group of people all wearing Astar one of the companies tshirt. They will speaking a foreigners accent.
The MOM measures surely will benefit this groups of people increasing their remuneration package.