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Nobody wants to work?
As to “Labour MP Yeo Guat Kwang said he jumped at the idea after hawkers complained to him about difficulties hiring dishwashers.
“Given the labour shortage and tighter foreign workers quota, outsourcing and automation is the way to go for jobs that locals do not want to do,” he said” – why are there more than 60,000 local cleaners, and only about 17,400 foreigners, if locals do not want to work as cleaners (despite the very low pay now)? Why not increase the pay to try to attract even more locals to work?
Speaking up for consumers?
Also, as the president of CASE, shouldn’t Mr Yeo be speaking up for and be concerned about the impact of likely higher food prices to consumers (which arguably any consumer association’s president in the world would do)?
I refer to the report “Cleaning fees raised at nine hawker centres” (Channel NewsAsia, Nov 14).
Cleaners pay increased? Don’t know?
It states that “On how the fees hikes will impact cleaners’ salaries, Ms Fu said she is not able to provide details on the extent to which the increases in fees would benefit the cleaners since it would depend on the operations of each cleaning service provider”.
So much has been said about the issue of very low pay cleaners that almost everybody including Parliamentarians have been asking how much has the pay of cleaners increased, after all the initiatives, schemes, etc.
And the answer now in Parliament is essentially "we are not able to tell you."
- http://leongszehian.com/?p=5703
As to “Labour MP Yeo Guat Kwang said he jumped at the idea after hawkers complained to him about difficulties hiring dishwashers.
“Given the labour shortage and tighter foreign workers quota, outsourcing and automation is the way to go for jobs that locals do not want to do,” he said” – why are there more than 60,000 local cleaners, and only about 17,400 foreigners, if locals do not want to work as cleaners (despite the very low pay now)? Why not increase the pay to try to attract even more locals to work?
Speaking up for consumers?
Also, as the president of CASE, shouldn’t Mr Yeo be speaking up for and be concerned about the impact of likely higher food prices to consumers (which arguably any consumer association’s president in the world would do)?
I refer to the report “Cleaning fees raised at nine hawker centres” (Channel NewsAsia, Nov 14).
Cleaners pay increased? Don’t know?
It states that “On how the fees hikes will impact cleaners’ salaries, Ms Fu said she is not able to provide details on the extent to which the increases in fees would benefit the cleaners since it would depend on the operations of each cleaning service provider”.
So much has been said about the issue of very low pay cleaners that almost everybody including Parliamentarians have been asking how much has the pay of cleaners increased, after all the initiatives, schemes, etc.
And the answer now in Parliament is essentially "we are not able to tell you."
- http://leongszehian.com/?p=5703
