Serious So, PAP does have a Minimum Wage for Sinkie Companies after all

[Papsmearer]

Nearly 10,000 miles away from the anti-immigrant climate in Trump’s America, an island nation has been clamping down on Indian tech workers as part of its efforts to make sure companies give locals a fair shake, and to address concerns about overpopulation.
Singapore, which has about 5.4 million people and a workforce of which nearly 40% made up of nonresidents, has been ramping up measures to ensure that firms have a “Singapore core.”Officials have noted that foreign workers tend to be more common in certain industries, including food-and-beverage and technology. While Singapore hasn’t made any statements singling out Indian workers or firms, India’s IT trade industry body says it’s seen a definite change in the visa regime.
“They realized that the total number of people they have… far exceed the optimal level [the country can accommodate],” Gagan Sabharwal, director of global trade development at Nasscom, told Quartz. “That’s when they started shutting the tap down by making it more expensive, making it more cumbersome for companies.” Nasscom, the National Association of Software and Services Companies, has noted a reduction in visas over several years, but says things have become particularly tough since last year.
At first, Sabharwal says, Singapore started raising salaries required for foreign workers every six months or so by more than 10%. However, soon, he said, local workers started complaining that they weren’t getting paid as handsomely as their foreign counterparts. Last month, Singapore raised the minimum salary that a firm has to pay a local worker in order to be able to count them as a full-time local employee while calculating how many foreign workers it is allowed to hire.

Singaporean authorities are also reportedly asking for information in relation to work-permit applications for Indian tech workers that firms feel is contrary to a 2005 economic cooperation agreement between the two countries.
Quartz reached out to Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) with questions and will update if they respond.

 

[eatshitndie]

thanks to corrective policies, sinkies will vote pap en masse. this time it will be closer to 69.96% instead of 69.86%.

 

[Papsmearer]

thanks to corrective policies, sinkies will vote pap en masse. this time it will be closer to 69.96% instead of 69.86%.

I think it will be 69.696969%

 

[face the facts]

if spore introduce minimum wage (which it should), rentals will have to go down if not some business will close down…..
thats why the pappies die die refuse to introduce
papsmearer, please continue your good work to expose the fucking hypocrite pap pies

 

[frenchbriefs]

i hope India sues and declare economic sanctions on Singapore for breaking the terms of CECA free trade agreement and xenophobic hiring policies and targeted racism and discrimination,and labeling North Indian nationals as rapists and murderers.

Tear down this wall i say!!!!

 

[halsey02]

I thought the PAP for ages, have always insisted despite being asked so many times, to implement a Min Wage system here...now they are quietly stating that there is one?

What's the min wage? $800 or $1,000?...how about the ministers , what are the min wage?

 

[Papsmearer]

if spore introduce minimum wage (which it should), rentals will have to go down if not some business will close down…..
thats why the pappies die die refuse to introduce
papsmearer, please continue your good work to expose the fucking hypocrite pap pies

Ok, Jia Yu.

 

[Papsmearer]

I thought the PAP for ages, have always insisted despite being asked so many times, to implement a Min Wage system here...now they are quietly stating that there is one?

What's the min wage? $800 or $1,000?...how about the ministers , what are the min wage?

Notice the shocking lack of comment from MOM and lack of attack from the Fake Oppo WP. This article is accurate in that any company hiring foreign workers in SIngapore (I would imagine that would be most of the large and SME companies) must first pay their local employees (I take this to mean sinkie employees) a minimum wage of whatever dollars, this is not mentioned in the article. Once they do this, any local worker paid this minimum wage is counted as a full time employee and the company is then allowed to hire foreign workers on a percentage and ratio vis a vis the local employees in the company. I am guessing this is MOM's way of encouraging the companies to hire more locals in order to allow them to bring in foreign workers. Well, how many local workers are covered under this scheme. Could be over 1 million. And that means that we actually have a defacto minimum wage in zikapore. Once again, PAP is a lying piece of shit..

 

[Papsmearer]

[h=3]Committee of Supply debate: Ministry of Manpower[/h][h=1]Salary base for local workers to go up[/h]
From July this year, the minimum salary firms must pay their local workers each month if they want to hire foreign workers will go up.

The amount a resident worker must earn to count as a full-time worker will rise from $1,000 now to $1,100 in July, and $1,200 from July next year, Minister of State for Manpower Sam Tan said.
Sustainable wage increases are one way to lift the lot of low-wage workers, Mr Tan said at the debate on the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) budget, as he detailed changes to the salary threshold .


The number of foreign workers a company can hire is tied to its number of full-time local workers, under a quota system known as the Dependency Ratio Ceiling (DRC). The DRC of 60 per cent in the manufacturing sector, for instance, means an employer can hire up to 1.5 foreign workers for every full-time local worker.

This salary threshold is regularly reviewed to stay in line with income trends, said Mr Tan. "If not, it means that we are gradually loosening our foreign worker controls simply due to rising nominal wages," he added.





The figure was last reviewed in 2013, when it went up from $850 to $1,000. Then, the income of workers at the 10th percentile was $1,200. This rose to $1,300 in 2015. Given rising income levels, the ministry has decided to adopt the new salary threshold.
"If we do not update the salary threshold now, it will mean having to make an even larger increase in future," Mr Tan said.
Low-wage workers are being helped by supplementing their incomes and retirement savings, through the progressive wage model, and stepping up "best sourcing" efforts, which encourage service buyers to award contracts based not just on price.
An updated Tripartite Advisory on Best Sourcing Practices was released yesterday. MOM is also working with other agencies to review further measures against contractors that fail to safeguard basic employment rights of outsourced workers under government contracts. More details will be announced at a later date.
Mr Tan noted that measures are also in place to ensure vulnerable workers, such as the elderly and injured, are looked after. The re-employment age will be raised to 67 from July this year, so that a growing pool of older workers can contribute as long as they are able to.
A Return to Work programme - which will give personalised help to injured workers and their companies - will be introduced this year.
Coordinators will help employers make adjustments to workplaces and jobs to facilitate the rehabilitation of injured workers. This will be an effort by the Government, employers and unions, he added.

 

[mojito]

Because it is a minimum wage for sinkies only. Give those maids and Banglas for min wage for fuck? We are suppose to exploit them!