My company is full of F.T! Common jobs also need F.T???

joola74 SG

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ShutterBug SG

Don't blame these FTs... they are humans, they too need to bring home the money...

Point your finger squarely at our government... and soon some day, they will end up implementing another Employment Law or Act, to mandate employers to hire MORE locals than FTs...On top of that, I think they may soon even have to start a "Please Don't Discriminate Obese Employees/Applicants" Act. Rolling Eyes

It is call the Law of LPPL... (LOLPPL)

Mr. Green Laughing

mancha SG

F.T.s here remind you not to ask for a pay raise.

Rock^Star SG

Malaysians do not require CPF contribution from the company.

That's why? And Singaporeans may job hop more easily than Malaysians do.

robertteh SG

Shutterbug,

You are quite right about the need to pass laws to correct their own policy errors.

The ministers were the ones in the 1980s who started the discriminations among employers against hiring older workers. They told employers not to implement the seniority wage system and following that newspapers everyday kept playing the tune that older workers are more expensive to employ.

Now they realize their mistake as employers will take this opportunity to stop older employees from working or go for early retirements/

So the ministers now have to pass another law to force employers not to discriminate against older workers.

The same thing will happen to their current open-door policy to encourage employers to take in foreign workers even for common routine jobs.

So the newspapers will be playing up all the "needs of foreign workers" until all the employers began to turn to China and India for clerks and technicians which are easily available among our own workforce.

Locals are now being sidelined by employers just because of such one-track policy implementation.

Welfarism is bad but constant harping of dangers of welfarism has led to all ministries and departments recovering all costs of services resulting in taxpayers getting short-changed.

That has been our system - autocracy is rearing all the problems and the ministers despite their so-called educations cannot even see such simple mistakes and citizens are being asked to pay them more millions to make more mistakes.

ShutterBug SG

How long can they keep up all these shoddiness?

The sun rises and sets on EVERYBODY....
And if they still don't open their bluddy eyes and minds, it will set on them sooner..!

Bluddy Lame Brains...

Mad

Frogleg888 SG

Some companies do outplacement exercise just to get rid of 50+ workers,in less than half year,they get in young and energetic FTs.The cycle continued cos they wanted to cut cost.
End result is a lot of meddle age local jobless at home.Sigh! Sad

BadzMaro SG

Yup. Unless u are real good at what u are doing~

TooFree SG

Those does not really fit the description of the word 'Foreign Talent'. I suppose the more appropriate jargon to use is 'Foreign Skilled Worker'. With investment swarming in and foreign companies establishing their base in Singapore, the manpower for the company operational needs may be a ballpark figure.

1. Are our own workforce willing to fill the vacancy of the jobs generated by the oversea company investing here such as production workers?

2. Can our manpower fills the vacancy of the projected number of jobs created?

The open-door policy cannot be a foolproof solution yet at least it can alleviate the intense competition face in the rise of China and India cheap labour cost in order to make Singapore attractive for oveasea company seeking to lower their cost of operation.

Neutral

rane SG

Wow, no wonder there are still so many locals still can't find jobs!!! Blame the gahmen for it! I came across a company hiring clerks from China!!! It is obviously the fault of the gahmen! Becos gahmen refuse to protect our very own locals unlike other countries. "You die your business"! Damn it, LHL!! Mr. Green

allentyb SG

because they are dirt cheap Laughing

googoomuck SG

Once upon a time locals were spoiled for choice when finding work. Some sectors with high employee turnover rate, employers are allowed to hire a percentage of foreigners.
This is the beginning of some problems we see today.
With too many foreigners in a particular sector, locals dont feel comfortable working in that sector anymore. Soon, almost all jobs in that sector are taken up by foreigners. Then, payroll dept also outsourced to the country where theses foreigners come from. Certain sectors even have training centers set up in that country where the majority of the workers come from, then followed by managers, GM, managing directors.
Now locals aged above 40 have difficulty finding jobs. This issue is still unsolved and
MOM is talking about signing legislation to rehire retirees by 2012. Why not now?
Meanwhile, more locals are displeased with the govt employment policies as well as its reluctance to change the employent acts which are biased towards employers.
We can expect that more people will commit suicides because of financial problems. I wonder what cause the scholar ministers so long to make decision. Or are they scoreless ministers?
They cant blackmail people to re elect the ruling party. In 2011.

bila_prem SG

If you think you’re better then migrate to a better country which pays you higher than what locals are getting or paying you. That is globalisation. No point lamenting on such issues. If companies from other nations gonna pay u in US dollars, then go for it~ At least you can think of saving up or even promotion if you are better and more experienced.

the_fallen SG

Don't point fingers to anyone, blame ourselves better

If we don't whine and complain almost everything under the sun via letters to either govt, cad, case or police.

Than we would already be able to accept more workloads and yet expecting lesser income.

Those F.T are here because they have their own reasons, and the fact they are more hardworking than us as a matter of fact, and THEY DON'T COMPLAIN AS MUCH AS WE SINGAPOREANS DO.

Either we continue complain, they will still bring and allow more F.T in, or we sit down and do some self-reflecting, are we just going to sit back, do nothing, complain and not to improve ourselves to prepare for the influx of F.T in 2008?

If we keep complaining, there's only 2 words - Impending Doom (Mass Unemployement)

ShutterBug SG

Simple, they don't complain 'AS MUCH', because when they've earned enough, they say Bye Bye... locals have to live with whatever our heartless gov dishes out...that's why they KPKB!

Globalization is good, but to a certain extent based on the SIZE of our country and population, there can be such a situation as 'over doing it'....

All previous policies starting from their Family Planning of Stop at Two - now what do we have? Wanting in local births...

All these so called "Good for us" policies, where did the 'good' go to? Yes we progressed and advanced, where did the money go to? Do we see LESSER cardboard and drink can picking old folks today? No, we see MORE of them!

All the money they are sitting on top of, and Hospitals are lacking in beds? And a manpower problem in Polyclinics? Medisave cannot cover Cataract Surgeries to save an aging person's eye sight?

You tell me, what the HELL is all this...? More Good Years???

If this isn't LPPL..don't what is...

citymax SG

quite true leh..their salary normally is a benchmark for all locals..

Trump_Card SG

Ministers?

googoomuck SG

Globalization is only about companies driving costs down by picking the cheapest resources and manpower available.
Cutting costs means lowering standards by these cheaper operators or vendors - cant be the other way round - which result in employees poor attitudes and ultimately poor performance, poor quality control, decreased company loyalty.
Even safety is compromised as can be seen in construction and maritime/shipbuilding sectors.
Globalization also spreads conflict and resentment among foreigners and locals and cultural clashes are unavoidable.
The disadvantages of globalization outweigh the advantages.

rane SG

Think to the employees that it is true of what you said above. Sigh!!!!

googoomuck SG

That's correct. This is from an employee's point of view.
But look at Dell. It is one of the big companies that began outsourcing non-core business to India and other countries where costs is lower. Afer 2006 performance results were out, Dell promised it's staff: no bonus!
Even after downsizing and outsourcing, IBM has to sell its PC division and Printer division eventually.
China's Lenovo, after buying over IBM's PC division, still cannot make profits.