February 22, 2010
A Spa manager is a job which Singaporeans will be keen to take
up. Neither does it require any special qualifications or skills
not found in the local workforce.
For some strange reasons, a Filipino employment agency was
tasked with recruiting Filipino citizens and those who are
Singapore PRs only for 15 vacancies for Spa managers in
Singapore:
The candidates need to have a Bachelor’s degree in Business
studies, Commerce or Physiotherapy which are ubiquitous in
Singapore.
Leaders from the ruling party have always claimed that Singapore
needs foreigners to take up jobs “shunned” by Singaporeans.
In this case, did the hiring companies bother to recruit
Singaporeans first before resorting to foreigners?
Under Singapore’s lax labor policies, companies are allowed to
employ foreigners so long a quota for “local” workers are
fulfilled. However, as “local” includes both citizens and PRs, the
rule is easily circumvented by getting earlier arrivals to take up
Singapore PRs, thereby freeing up slots to employ more foreign
workers.
The situation is further exacerbated by the astonishingly short
time in which the PRs are granted. Most countries require
foreigners to reside for a period of time before they are allowed
to apply for PR, but not in Singapore.
Based on media reports, some foreigners are able to obtain
Singapore PRs within 3 to 6 months of application. Two out of every
three PR applicants are successful, some of whom are non-speaking
construction workers, cleaners, masseurs and even prostitutes.
In some companies like Levis, it was rumored that more than 50
per cent of its staff are Filipinos. The recently opened Resorts
World Sentosa also employ large numbers of Filipinos.
While other countries such as Australia and Britain have
introduced measures to curb the inflow of even skilled migrant
workers to protect the livelihoods of their citizens, Singapore
continues to welcome them with open arms despite some cosmetic
changes made to better “distinguish citizens from foreigners.”
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said lately that there will not be
a major “turnaround” in the ruling party’s pro-foreigner policies
and the number of foreign workers may actually increase in the next
few years ahead.
In other democracies like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, such
discriminatory labor policies will surely see the ruling party
being kicked out of office by angry voters, but not in Singapore
where its largely apathetic and ignorant citizenry continues to
devour the propaganda being churned out daily by the state
media.
It is hardly a surprise that Singaporeans are described as
“sheep” by SM Goh who need to be led by “lions” like himself
and the foreigners flooding Singapore like a pack of
hungry wolves and jackals to stuck “spurs” into their thick
“hides”.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/02/22/15-job-vacancies-for-spa-managers-in-singapore-reserved-for-filipinos-only/