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February 12, 2010 by admin
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Written by Our Correspondent
Infocomm and Business Skills instructors are jobs which are expected to be taken up by Singaporeans.
They pay reasonably well, do not involve shift work nor involve menial tasks shunned by Singaporeans.
After all, PAP leaders and employers have been drumming home the message that they cannot survive without foreign workers as Singaporeans are getting fussy and pampered.
A Computer Training Company put up a job advertisement on an online portal recruiting various positions in technical, office applications and Business skills in Singapore as indicated under “Instructors”:
There are many Singaporeans with diploma or Bachelors degree in Computer Science.
The company should encounter no problems recruiting Singapore citizens to fill its vacancies, however, for some inexplicable reasons, it stated clearly that only Malaysian citizens and PRs need to apply:
Are our Computer Science degrees from NUS and diplomas from Singapore Polytechnic not recognized in Singapore?
Are our local graduates less capable and qualified than Malaysian graduates?
If not, then why are Singapore citizens being discriminated openly in their own country?
According to a reader who worked in MOM previously, such job ads are not allowed by MOM.
Employers are not supposed to specify the nationality of the workers they are seeking, what’s more openly declaring that they are not interested in Singaporeans.
Another reader who worked in the HR department of a company told us that he would be swarmed by foreign applicants whenever he posted a job advertisement on Singapore’s online job portals even when it was stated clearly that only Singaporeans need apply.
MOM should crack down on such discriminatory job ads against Singaporeans as they give the erroneous impression that foreigners are preferred over locals because the latter are less qualified, skillful or hardworking than them.
There is no reason why this company cannot employ Singaporeans other than the fact they cost more than foreign workers.
The quota system for local workers can be exploited easily by getting earlier arrivals to take up Singapore PRs.
For example, a company may initially have 10 Malaysian workers on S passes, but once they become Singapore PRs, it will have another 10 empty slots to employ foreign workers as the quota is met.
Increasing the foreign worker levy will not help as employers can simply make up for the “loss” by charging the middlemen more or by reducing the pay of the workers.
It is time MOM review its ridiculously lax labor policies to tighten the inflow of foreign workers into Singapore.
Foreigners should only be allowed in sectors which are really in shortage of local manpower. Positions like the above should be reserved solely for Singaporeans only.
If a company is going to fold up just because it cannot afford to pay a bit more to hire Singaproeans, then perhaps it should never be in the business in the first place.
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February 12, 2010 by admin
Filed under Headlines
Leave a comment
Written by Our Correspondent
Infocomm and Business Skills instructors are jobs which are expected to be taken up by Singaporeans.
They pay reasonably well, do not involve shift work nor involve menial tasks shunned by Singaporeans.
After all, PAP leaders and employers have been drumming home the message that they cannot survive without foreign workers as Singaporeans are getting fussy and pampered.
A Computer Training Company put up a job advertisement on an online portal recruiting various positions in technical, office applications and Business skills in Singapore as indicated under “Instructors”:
There are many Singaporeans with diploma or Bachelors degree in Computer Science.
The company should encounter no problems recruiting Singapore citizens to fill its vacancies, however, for some inexplicable reasons, it stated clearly that only Malaysian citizens and PRs need to apply:
Are our Computer Science degrees from NUS and diplomas from Singapore Polytechnic not recognized in Singapore?
Are our local graduates less capable and qualified than Malaysian graduates?
If not, then why are Singapore citizens being discriminated openly in their own country?
According to a reader who worked in MOM previously, such job ads are not allowed by MOM.
Employers are not supposed to specify the nationality of the workers they are seeking, what’s more openly declaring that they are not interested in Singaporeans.
Another reader who worked in the HR department of a company told us that he would be swarmed by foreign applicants whenever he posted a job advertisement on Singapore’s online job portals even when it was stated clearly that only Singaporeans need apply.
MOM should crack down on such discriminatory job ads against Singaporeans as they give the erroneous impression that foreigners are preferred over locals because the latter are less qualified, skillful or hardworking than them.
There is no reason why this company cannot employ Singaporeans other than the fact they cost more than foreign workers.
The quota system for local workers can be exploited easily by getting earlier arrivals to take up Singapore PRs.
For example, a company may initially have 10 Malaysian workers on S passes, but once they become Singapore PRs, it will have another 10 empty slots to employ foreign workers as the quota is met.
Increasing the foreign worker levy will not help as employers can simply make up for the “loss” by charging the middlemen more or by reducing the pay of the workers.
It is time MOM review its ridiculously lax labor policies to tighten the inflow of foreign workers into Singapore.
Foreigners should only be allowed in sectors which are really in shortage of local manpower. Positions like the above should be reserved solely for Singaporeans only.
If a company is going to fold up just because it cannot afford to pay a bit more to hire Singaproeans, then perhaps it should never be in the business in the first place.
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