Erm... Just in case you thought PM Lee was announcing something new in his National Day Rally Speech 2011 with regards to foreign-workers polices, do be reminded that the raising of S-pass and Employment Pass (EP) minimum income thresholds was already announced prior to GE2011.
Total number of people in the entire world who can qualify to work in Singapore is many times of Singapore's population. Tweaking the filtering criteria a little is not gonna make much of a difference. It's an ocean bursting at its seams to flood our little ponding spot.
This tweaking will not reduce the number of foreigners working in Singapore significantly. However, the announcement of such tweakings may well pacify a few poorly-informed Singaporeans.
A policy change with real impact is imposing a QUOTA on the different foreigner employment passes and work permits. So far, there has been no suggestions in that direction. I guess there is no real will to reduce foreigner workers/talents significantly.
Only with a real QUOTA (with an attendant COE of sorts to distribute the quota), that firms will think twice before bringing in a foreigner. And in the process, the employer will take a second look at the Singaporean worker/talent.
And what we have been telling the world and our own people is true, why should we worry about not being attractive to the MNC/investors in this world economic climate? This is the best time to impose such restrictions. The world's best will still be headed our way.
Still No Singaporeans FIRST
Most significantly, despite PM Lee's claim that the government has always placed Singaporeans FIRST in their policy-making, the principle of Singaporeans FIRST has not been applied.
What PM Lee was trying allude to is that by making policies which affect Singaporeans, the government is practising 'Singaporeans FIRST'.
Erm... Making policies which affect Singaporeans is but the government's job, Sir.
So what then is this principle of 'Singaporeans FIRST' which has gain much traction with Singaporeans (political parties, netizens, Singaporean on the SBS bus, and even some government-linked entities) recently?
'Singaporeans FIRST' is a proposed employment policy that mandates that for any employment position to be filled, the employer has to fill it with a Singaporean, unless a better-qualified non-Singaporean has applied for it.
Read more about Singaporeans FIRST.
Without Singaporeans FIRST, even if 2,000 more Singaporeans make it to local universities, they will only be disappointed upon graduation.
Do remember that currently, 1/3 of our graduates, who have found jobs, are on contract basis. Meanwhile, fresh graduates foreigners are granted employment passes to compete with local fresh graduates. All things being equal, why shouldn't the Singaporean fresh graduate be given the job over the many many fresh graduate foreigners?
This tweaking will not reduce the number of foreigners working in Singapore significantly. However, the announcement of such tweakings may well pacify a few poorly-informed Singaporeans.
A policy change with real impact is imposing a QUOTA on the different foreigner employment passes and work permits. So far, there has been no suggestions in that direction. I guess there is no real will to reduce foreigner workers/talents significantly.
Only with a real QUOTA (with an attendant COE of sorts to distribute the quota), that firms will think twice before bringing in a foreigner. And in the process, the employer will take a second look at the Singaporean worker/talent.
And what we have been telling the world and our own people is true, why should we worry about not being attractive to the MNC/investors in this world economic climate? This is the best time to impose such restrictions. The world's best will still be headed our way.
Still No Singaporeans FIRST
Most significantly, despite PM Lee's claim that the government has always placed Singaporeans FIRST in their policy-making, the principle of Singaporeans FIRST has not been applied.
What PM Lee was trying allude to is that by making policies which affect Singaporeans, the government is practising 'Singaporeans FIRST'.
Erm... Making policies which affect Singaporeans is but the government's job, Sir.
So what then is this principle of 'Singaporeans FIRST' which has gain much traction with Singaporeans (political parties, netizens, Singaporean on the SBS bus, and even some government-linked entities) recently?
'Singaporeans FIRST' is a proposed employment policy that mandates that for any employment position to be filled, the employer has to fill it with a Singaporean, unless a better-qualified non-Singaporean has applied for it.
Read more about Singaporeans FIRST.
Without Singaporeans FIRST, even if 2,000 more Singaporeans make it to local universities, they will only be disappointed upon graduation.
Do remember that currently, 1/3 of our graduates, who have found jobs, are on contract basis. Meanwhile, fresh graduates foreigners are granted employment passes to compete with local fresh graduates. All things being equal, why shouldn't the Singaporean fresh graduate be given the job over the many many fresh graduate foreigners?
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