[h=2]Open Letter to Lim Swee Say – Why employ FT instead of SG in NTUC?[/h]
October 11th, 2012 |
Author: Contributions
Mr Lim Swee Say ([email protected] ),
CEO and Secretary-General,
NTUC Singapore
NTUC Centre
No 1, Marina Boulevard
#10-01, One Marina Boulevard
Singapore 018989
cc. Mr Ang Hin Kee, CEO, NTUC E2i Center; [email protected]
cc. TRE (TR Emeritus); www.tremeritus.com
cc. TOC (The Online Citizen); theonlinecitizen.com
cc. Yahoo News
.
Open Letter
Re: Employing Foreigners like Amy Cheong at NTUC instead of equally qualified Singaporeans
Dear Sir,
The recent Amy Cheong saga has brought up many unanswered questions into the open.
With my deepest respect Sir, I look forward to NTUC’s swift reply on this matter.
Firstly, why did NTUC, Singapore’s largest Trade Union, hire a Foreigner like Amy Cheong to fill it’s Asst Director position, when there are thousands of jobless highly qualified PME (Professionals, Managers, Executives) Singaporeans available who can easily do the job?
Is NTUC saying that they can’t find Singaporeans for these kind of high paying jobs?
Is NTUC saying that these are jobs that Singaporeans shun, such that they had no choice but to hire a Foreigner from Australia? Isn’t NTUC supposed to look after the welfare of Singaporeans first?
What is so specialised about Amy Cheong’s Asst Director role ‘in-charge of Memberships’? If it was, for example, a special niche role like a corporate lawyer or research scientist etc, where very special training/background is required, then that would be a different matter, but this is clearly not the case for this role in question.
I find this even more shocking and ironic, as NTUC even has a job-placement/training arm called the E2i (Employment & Employeability Institute), set up specially to help unemployed Singaporeans and especially PME’s to look for jobs. Yet for this Asst Director role within NTUC itself, NTUC goes and hires a Foreigner, a Malaysian born Australian Citizen. As myself, a jobless PME Singaporean with many years working experience and still looking for a job (I was retrenched recently), I find the logic here twisted and alarming.
The fact is that NTUC’s E2i Center and the even the many CDC’s have thousands of highly qualified unemployed Singaporeans, some even with MBA’s and Masters degrees, on their database list looking for jobs.
Are any of these people from E2i and CDC’s even referred for jobs at NTUC or government agencies?
Are Singaporeans given priority for jobs at NTUC? How many Foreigners are currently being employed at NTUC? Why is there a need to employ Foreigners at NTUC in the first place?
Thank you.
.
Yours Sincerely,
A Very Concerned Singaporean and NSman
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Editor’s note: This letter has been forwarded to Mr Lim Swee Say.
Mr Lim Swee Say ([email protected] ),
CEO and Secretary-General,
NTUC Singapore
NTUC Centre
No 1, Marina Boulevard
#10-01, One Marina Boulevard
Singapore 018989
cc. Mr Ang Hin Kee, CEO, NTUC E2i Center; [email protected]
cc. TRE (TR Emeritus); www.tremeritus.com
cc. TOC (The Online Citizen); theonlinecitizen.com
cc. Yahoo News
.
Open Letter
Re: Employing Foreigners like Amy Cheong at NTUC instead of equally qualified Singaporeans
Dear Sir,
The recent Amy Cheong saga has brought up many unanswered questions into the open.
With my deepest respect Sir, I look forward to NTUC’s swift reply on this matter.
Firstly, why did NTUC, Singapore’s largest Trade Union, hire a Foreigner like Amy Cheong to fill it’s Asst Director position, when there are thousands of jobless highly qualified PME (Professionals, Managers, Executives) Singaporeans available who can easily do the job?
Is NTUC saying that they can’t find Singaporeans for these kind of high paying jobs?
Is NTUC saying that these are jobs that Singaporeans shun, such that they had no choice but to hire a Foreigner from Australia? Isn’t NTUC supposed to look after the welfare of Singaporeans first?
What is so specialised about Amy Cheong’s Asst Director role ‘in-charge of Memberships’? If it was, for example, a special niche role like a corporate lawyer or research scientist etc, where very special training/background is required, then that would be a different matter, but this is clearly not the case for this role in question.
I find this even more shocking and ironic, as NTUC even has a job-placement/training arm called the E2i (Employment & Employeability Institute), set up specially to help unemployed Singaporeans and especially PME’s to look for jobs. Yet for this Asst Director role within NTUC itself, NTUC goes and hires a Foreigner, a Malaysian born Australian Citizen. As myself, a jobless PME Singaporean with many years working experience and still looking for a job (I was retrenched recently), I find the logic here twisted and alarming.
The fact is that NTUC’s E2i Center and the even the many CDC’s have thousands of highly qualified unemployed Singaporeans, some even with MBA’s and Masters degrees, on their database list looking for jobs.
Are any of these people from E2i and CDC’s even referred for jobs at NTUC or government agencies?
Are Singaporeans given priority for jobs at NTUC? How many Foreigners are currently being employed at NTUC? Why is there a need to employ Foreigners at NTUC in the first place?
Thank you.
.
Yours Sincerely,
A Very Concerned Singaporean and NSman
.
Editor’s note: This letter has been forwarded to Mr Lim Swee Say.
