[–]ChinaWine_official 116 points 12 hours ago
Don’t be baited into looking at it from a humanitarian angle. The fact that companies do not enforce this is no different from a company hiring illegal workers. If you’re outraged by companies lying about salaries to get S pass or EP, you should be outraged by this. It’s companies getting around regulations so that they can suppress wages for everyone.
[–]BagholderForever 49 points 12 hours ago
Not siding with the companies, but if you read the article, the foreigner would approach locals to ‘borrow’ their food delivery accounts. Then the profit would be split between the two. From companies operation POV, it will be impractical/almost impossible to enforce it. It is more on police responsibility to crackdown illegal workers.
[–]tehtf 7 points 7 hours ago
Government just need to impose strict fine to company breaking this or get caught. Company can always find ways like also implicit fine/sue/termination to those rider getting caught.
[–]worldcitizensgMature Citizen 4 points 7 hours ago
Not at all. Police, Agencies - End up costing more money to the taxpayers. Why can't the Grab/FP ensure that? ID Card clearly displayed? or Phone number that's tied to the person? Change of Grab / Food panda account to a different phone means either show the proof of ID or disable?
If there is will there is a way. These companies are simply throwing the hot potato to others. Classic private profits and socialize cost
[–]mukansamonkey 3 points 6 hours ago
Grab already locks accounts to a phone, and even has facial recognition checks on the driver. It's absolutely possible to work around those. However, it requires that the Singaporean be actively collaborating. Like they physically pass the phone back and forth on a daily basis. Kind of hard to block deliberate coordination like that.
[–]ChinaWine_official 1 point 6 hours ago
It’s not impractical at all. It just costs them money. If tonight the fine for each offence is levied at 100k at Grab, I can bet you tomorrow they will already roll out a solution.
A simple 2FA login tied to your phone’s Face ID or fingerprint ID would throttle this.
[–]ngrenjie 22 points 12 hours ago
There’s also zero incentive for the companies to police this when it’s not costing them any money, and their deliveries are still getting made at the end of the day.
What it means for the food riders is that there’s an ever increasing amount of competition vying for a limited slice of the pie. No wonder they would be upset. This isn’t one man looking to scrape by; he’s running an entire syndicate!
[–]No_Pension9902 34 points 11 hours ago*
Illegal is illegal.Some might say that these syndicates are just doing honest work,but the fact is it causes damage to local society as their income are flowing out.The problem is more serious than one can imagine and the delivery man is suppose to be the one crying as jobs kanna stolen thru illegal means.
[–]trashmaker 32 points 12 hours ago
I get that there is a humanitarian angle here and this person being filmed might just be hustling, but if it's illegal, it's illegal for a reason. His reaction indicates that it might be illegal somehow (maybe on a student pass and doing this illegally).
[–]Unlucky-Patience6438 4 points 8 hours ago
Agree. Where do we draw the line on honest work vs legal work when passing judgement?
Prostitution is pretty honest and hard work TBH.
[–]Windreon Lao Jiao 4 points 7 hours ago
Prostitution is legal in singapore.
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[–]Yokies 22 points 9 hours ago
..meanwhile bank boss 15mil paycheque after payhike. While ya'll fight over crumbs.
[–]Kokokrunch_ 4 points 9 hours ago
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[–]Clear_Education1936 23 points 12 hours ago
Matter of principles. Illegal means illegal. No need to pity. He knows it’s illegal yet do it. No respect for the law. Crying to get people’s pity is bullshit. Then china gals working illegally as masseuses n prostitutes should also cry?
