June 19th,
2011 | Author: Contributions
Dear Editor TRE,
Can TRE highlight a scam which is going on in Singapore among the
employers of foreign workers. This scam is also perpetuated by
listed companies where MP’s are in boards of directors also.
It goes like this:
The government is supposed to have tried to cut down demand for
foreign workers by raising their salary level. Thus S-pass holders
must be those paid $1,800 and above before such passes are
issued.
In actual fact, employers, in cahoot with agents, arrange with that
these foreign workers, while on paper are paid say $1,800 per
month, every month, a day after pay day, these foreign workers
troop to the boss’s office and hand back anything from $900 to
$1,200 in cash to the boss. Thus in actual fact, the company
are allowed to bring in foreign workers whose pay are as low as
$800 per month under S-passes. I know in a company where they
are just employed to answer telephone and key in orders for the
company.
Needless to say, the bosses of such companies are extremely
high-handed and arrogant towards Singaporean workers. They adopt
a take it or leave it attitude. For them, it is better that
the Singaporeans are forced out. Then they moan about picky
Singaporeans. You have just highlighted the Straits Times’
sickening twisting of facts. Can you expose such scams? Please.
Yue Zhong Qi
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SHITTY TIMES IN FULL DRIVE TO BELITTLE LOCAL WORKERS IN FAVOUR OF
FOREIGNERS:
June 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Alas,what a naive lot Singaporeans are.
This is not a scam per ce.
This is a norm.
In almost all countries that has a greater floating population than
locals.
In short,paper qualifications & salaries paid are ONLY IN
PAPERS for officialdom sake.The rest are private arrangements.
I had seen this sort of system at work in Middle East &
Brunei—-even in Indonesia where an expat had to pay a certain
amount of annual fees to the govt; all are circumvented.The
biggest culprits are large MNCs who wants the cake and eat it
too.
But there is a difference
All the other countries that I knew where such a system works
benefits the locals.Whereas in Singapore such a system works
against the locals.
How?
Because almost all those countries with a huge foreign population
as their floating population are oil rich counties.Nanny
states–where everything is provided free.And this ’scam’ or
system allows their local contractors to have a pool of foreign
workers at their disposal not costing them much since
foreigners don’t compete with locals for jobs.
But in Singapore we already have enough local workers but they cost
more since our cost of living is higher.Therefore such a scam
or system works against local workers.
You might be surprised some of our govt linked companies also
engages in this dirty trick…..by contracting or sub contracting
such jobs to their cronies…..just take a peek at our shipyards
,the dirt is mountain high.
I bet the contractors are PAP cronies.
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Kojakbt:
June 18, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Corruption is endemic now in Singapore. Most of the local employers
who recruit large number of foreign workers are on the take 1
way or another. Most foreign workers coming here pay something
like $8-10K to secure a job. Just ask yourself this simple
question, where does the money all go to? To the agents? You
mean they are so powerful to be able to “guarantee” jobs for the
foreign workers?
It’s pathetic…
In 5 years, thanks to PAP’s pro-FT, pro-growth policy, it’s turning
Singapore from a first-world country to a 3rd world one.
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Rotten PaPayas:
June 19, 2011 at 11:40 am
I don’t know about large local employers but this practice is
certainly true for smaller employers so one can assume that it must
be the same for large ones.
Local agents will usually contact an advertiser for foreign workers
and try to push their wares (pool of available workers) with a
dangle of a couple of thousand dollars per worker. Squeeze
them and they may give a bit more.
Yes! These local agents actually pay you cash up-front to take
their workers.
Where does that leave local born and bred workers – difficulty in
finding jobs and lower take-home pay due to unfair competition
from
these hordes of hungry workers from abroad who will settle for less
pay.
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Sure or Not:
June 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Quote: “his scam is also perpetuated by listed companies where MP’s
are in boards of directors also. It goes like this:
The government is supposed to have tried to cut down demand for
foreign workers by raising their salary level. Thus S-pass holders
must be those paid $1,800 and above before such passes are
issued.”
1) Is this the reasons why Companies want MPs to be on their BOARD
and also pay them handsomely?? So that companies can
know where is the ‘long kang’ (loop holes) to avoid or
skip??
Quote: “Needless to say, the bosses of such companies are extremely
high-handed and arrogant towards Singaporean workers.
They adopt a take it or leave it attitude. For them, it is
better that the Singaporeans are forced out. Then they moan about
picky Singaporeans.
You have just highlighted the Straits Times’ sickening twisting of
facts. Can you expose such scams? Please.”
1) No wonder i find it strange that employers always complaint no
Singaporean/workers willing to work or accept the jobs!! Sooooo
this is the reason that they want more FW/FT.
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וו דניאל:
June 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm
This is absolutely true for years already!
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Boon Huat Tan:
June 19, 2011 at 2:44 pm
if MOM investigates and CHECKs, it can benefit SG by: having higher
PAY for Qualified / Certified and REAL Foreign Talents AND
MORE IMPORTANTLY better PAY for already Qualified LOCAL
workers ; NOT forgetting BETTER working ENVIRONMENT and
working hours/timing for all Salaried WORKERs, LOCALs or
Foreign.
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ABC:
June 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
@joe tan:
>> whenever u see those BLANGLA workers clearing the rubbish
and washing the rubbish chute,do you want to do their job ???? If
your answer is no, then please shutup and stop your stupid
complain about foreign workers here.I repeat’ please shutup’
!!!!!!!!!-
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Kojakbt:
Well, at $2K a month, I’m sure you can get some Singaporeans
willing to work..
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LOBANG kena screwed of course pain la. Needless to say, you break
the FT goldmine, every john, joe, billy n joey would scream!
And it is thesejohn, joe, billy n joey that
screwed the system to their own advantage. They enjoyed screwing
the garment to show they are smarter. To them no policy is
unscrewable. Looks like the garment also enjoyed being screwed for
such a long time liao. Looks like these john, joe, billy n
joey are more powerful than garment. But the john, joe, billy
n joey days are numbered. They can’t screw LHL that
why they are screaming!
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From: Emeritus Foreign Thrashes = 1st class (BabaEro11)
3:56 am
To: kojakbt_89_ unread (3 of 3)
52916.3 in reply to 52916.1
Only way to plug the Loop-hole is to TAX these S-Pass workers AT
THE SOURCE .
Tax them 10% of SGD 1,800.
Employers who employed 10 S-Pass workers have to pay SGD 1,800.
If workers have to pay back employers SGD 1,000 each, they are left
with only SGD 620 NET pay.
One of my Palawan Bitch Resort Sinkie guests told me in Punggol
end, there is a marina club - big timer for abusing S-pass.
All the Ah Tiongs are Fake S-Pass holders.
SGD 1,000 per month each worker pay back through Agent and donated
into the Staff's Fund.
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