Singapore recruitment agency offers jobs for
foreigners ONLY
November 11, 2009 by admin
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From our Correspondent
A Singapore recruitment agency posted on its website a list for
jobs for foreigners, but locals need not apply!
Allied Manpower is a licensed recruitment agency in
Singapore which claims to provide services in human resources and
manpower management. It has over 29 years of proven
experience in foreign recruitment.
It offered a list of jobs for foreigners which can be easily
filled by locals:
As we can see from above, the jobs are offered only to specific
nationalities such as Filipinos and Chinese nationals.
Of late, senior cabinet ministers have stepped forward to defend
the government’s pro-foreigner policy.
MM Lee repeated the circular argument that foreigners are needed
to take up jobs shunned by Singaporeans without which Singapore’s
economy will stagnate:
“Look at the Integrated Resorts. (On the) rooftop, not one
(construction) worker there is a Singaporean. (They are) China
Chinese and the Indians. If you don’t have that, where’s the IR,
and the 10,000 jobs (they will create)?” he asked in speech
made at a grassroots event last week.
Opticians, art teachers, beauticians and website designers are
hardly considered as jobs shunned by Singaporeans. In fact, many
locals will be keen to take up such jobs.
The Singapore Polytechnic offers a three-year course in
Optometry which is popular among students. Are Filipino opticians
more highly qualified than ours?
Saved for the positions of IT support analyst and opticians, the
other jobs offer pay of less than $1,500.
For a local website designer, $1,200 is surely too low a salary,
but it is more than enough for a Chinese National who has no family
here. Convert it to RMB and he will take home more than RMB$5,500 a
month, far more than what he makes in China.
Again, there are many qualified Singaporeans who will be
interested in applying to become an Art teacher if not for the
meager pay of $1,200.
Imagine if you are a diploma or degree holder, will you consider
taking up such a job?
Instead of addressing the real concerns on the ground, the
government has chosen to put the blame on Singaporeans for being
too “choosy” about their jobs.
The relentless influx of foreigners, especially the semi-skilled
workers, has led to increased competition for the limited jobs in
the labor market.
Singaporeans often have to accept lower pay and longer working
hours out of fear of being replaced by foreigners who generally
have fewer demands.
Despite the widespread unhappiness and resentment among the
citizenry at its immigration policy, the ruling party is adamant
that foreigners are needed to keep the Singapore economy
growing.
There is no minimal wage in Singapore. Neither are there any
social welfare benefits for those who are retrenched or
unemployed.
Singapore’s population just cross the 5-million mark this year
out of which 36 per cent are foreigners. This means that for every
person you meet in the streets, he/she is likely to be a
foreigner.
The ruling party is able to force its unpopular policies down
the throats of a subservient citizenry largely because there is no
opposition in parliament to check on them and it controls all
important state institutions.
In Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and other Asian democracies,
citizens are able to gather and protest in the streets to show
their frustration and anger against their governments.
In Singapore, even a peaceful solo protest anywhere on the
island except Hong Lim Park is illegal under the law.
The lack of public expression of dissent helps the ruling party
to recycle and perpetuate the myth through the state media that it
is a “popular” government which have the “support” of the people to
introduce these laws and policies.
Unless Singaporeans wake up from their long slumber and reclaim
their civil and political rights as citizens of their country, they
will forever be subjected to the mercy of the ruling party.
Source: The Temasek Review
