PAP mass-recruiting Taiwanese PMETs by offering higher than
market pay to lure them to work in Singapore
In other countries, the governments will introduce measures to
safeguard the livelihoods of locals by restricting the number of
foreign migrant workers.
It is the other way round in Singapore – the PAP opens the
floodgates to allow the foreigners in to compete with Singaporeans
directly for jobs which can otherwise be taken up by them. To add
salt to the injury, it is playing an active role in “importing”
foreigners while exhorting Singaporeans to be “cheaper, better and
faster” at the same time.
PAP leaders have been busy of late trying to defend its
discriminatory immigration and labor policies against native
Singaporeans. DPM Teo Chee Hean said on Monday at a NUS ministerial
forum that the PAP has kept a “tight lid” on immigration.
PAP MP and NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Madam Halimah Yacob
claimed that according to her “counter-intuition”, it is not true
that employers are hiring foreigners over Singaporeans:
“Wise employers know they should look strictly at merit so
that they get the best talent for the organisation.”
[Source: Straits Times, 7 April 2010]
The PAP is indeed a “wise” employer by spending Singapore
taxpayers’ monies to go all the way to Taiwan to recruit their
PMETs to replace Singaporeans.
The China Times reported today that a Singapore government
organization – Contact Singapore is mass recruiting thousands of
Taiwanese PMETs in various fields such as healthcare, engineering
and social media to fill up “vacancies” in Singapore. (read article
here)
Its officials had arrived in Taiwan yesterday and will be
launching the recruitment exercise soon.
As expected, the sensational news was censored in all the major
Singapore papers out of fear of creating a public backlash against
the PAP.
Contact Singapore (联系新加坡) is an agency
of the Singapore (PAP) government whose primary function
is to draw people from around the world to work, invest and live in
Singapore, with the ultimate aim of boosting economic development.
It is an alliance of Singapore’s Economic Development Board and
Ministry of Manpower.
Contact Singapore has offices in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and
North America. It partners Singapore-based employers and industry
players to organise career fairs and networking sessions in cities
across the world, and provide updates on career opportunities and
various industry developments to individuals.
[Source: Wikipedia]
In other words, Contact Singapore is funded ENTIRELY by
Singapore taxpayers to recruit foreign PMETs to compete directly
with Singapore PMETs for limited jobs.
According to the China Times article, Singapore is offering the
Taiwanese salaries which is more than three times the market rate
in Taiwan to lure them over to Singapore.
The starting pay ranges from NT55,000 ($2,431) to NT66,000
($2,917). Those with three to five years of experience can expect a
starting pay of more than NT100,000 ($4,420) (1 Taiwanese
dollar = S$0.0442)
Besides PMETs, Singapore is also hiring creative designers in
the cultural and arts realms who can command a starting salary of
more than S$7,000.
Why is the PAP bringing in so many Taiwanese PMETs into
Singapore when these jobs can easily be taken up by Singaporeans?
Are these jobs “shunned” by Singaporeans as proclaimed frequently
by PAP leaders?
Contact Singapore’s CEO Huang Xiujuan said there are about
50,000 to 60,000 Taiwanese in Singapore and they tend to integrate
well into Singapore society due to similiarities in language and
culture. The majority of Singapore Chinese are Hokkiens who spoke
the same dialect as Taiwanese (Min-Nan).
(And who is paying for Ms Huang’s airfare, lodging and meals
in Taiwan when she goes about recruiting Taiwanese PMETs?)
It is an open secret that the PAP has been trying desperately
hard to lure Taiwanese and Hong Kongers to settle in Singapore.
One Taiwanese reader wrote to us expressing his disbelief that
upon applying to work in Canada, he was offered a Singapore PR
immediately by the migration agency under the Landed PR scheme
which gives Singapore PRs to foreigners who have never stepped foot
on Singapore.
“The agent kept selling Singapore to me and persuaded me to
take up Singapore PR as the application for Canada work
visa takes a long time. I refused. Singapore is not an
attractive place at all. I rather stay put in Taiwan than to
relocate to Singapore. At least it is a democracy here and we enjoy
basic political freedoms. Who will be so stupid to bring up their
children in a one-party dictatorship like Communist China? I know
it is difficult to go to Canada, but I am willing to wait for 10,
20 and even 30 years to go there, otherwise I will just remain
here,” he quipped, obviously not having a favorable impression
of Singapore.
Prospective immigrants should observe how the PAP government
treats its own citizens first before deciding whether to take up
Singapore citizenship.
Under the PAP’s repressive rule, Singaporeans have no civil or
political rights at all. We cannot criticize its leaders who are
wont to sue for defamation; we cannot protest against its policies
and neither can we vote them out of office as the electoral process
is engineered to keep them in power forever.
To those Taiwanese who are reading this, is this the kind of
country you want to bring up your children in? Will you trade your
human rights for a few hundreds dollars?
Remember: if the PAP can so blatantly hire you to work in
Singapore to make life miserable for native Singaporeans, it will
be your turn one day too.
TR April 8, 2010