Comical Ali of Singapore is Worried!

[makapaaa]

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>Swee Say worried about Jobs Credit's impact on productivity

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(SINGAPORE) Labour chief Lim Swee Say wants the government to send a clear signal to employers that the Jobs Credit scheme is not here to stay.

By doing so, it would signal to employers that the wage subsidy scheme is for Singapore to buy time in order for companies and workers to upgrade and stay competitive, the NTUC secretary-general told reporters at a grassroots event yesterday, The Straits Times website reported.
Companies which fail to do so will have to move elsewhere, Mr Lim added. He also stressed that employers should not become overly reliant on Jobs Credit.
Hence, the main concern of the labour movement is whether the momentum in improving workers' productivity and enhancing companies' capabilities and adaptability 'will move fast enough'.
The pace is critical. 'As we enter more and more into the upturn, saving jobs is necessary but insufficient,' Mr Lim explained.
Increasingly vital is the need to keep the jobs in Singapore as well as to create jobs, he pointed out, because developed countries, plagued with high unemployment rates, will compete keenly for these jobs as well as job-creating investments.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Mr Lim noted that unemployment in developed countries is 8.5 per cent and headed towards 10 per cent. In Singapore, latest figures show unemployment at 3.3 per cent in June, and Mr Lim credits this to Jobs Credit and Spur, a subsidised training programme. The $4.5 billion Jobs Credit scheme is a one-year aid programme that ends in December. It pays employers 12 per cent of workers' wages for the first $2,500 each month.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is expected to announce on Oct 13, at NTUC's Ordinary Delegates Conference, the outcome of a review of the scheme.
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[phouse3]

NTUC and MOM are the reasons for productivity plunge:

1. Workers become partially redundant and semi-comatosed under Jobs Credit Scheme.
2. Workers go on half speed when they share jobs (aka go on unpaid leave).
3. SPUR is the reason for 59-year-old trainee baker, 61-year-old student, 57-year-old trainee retail assistant.
4. Work Passes are responsible for turning the productive/educated into 35-year-old retired banker, 29-year-old fulltime homemaker, 41-year-old hawker/taxi driver.
5. Work Permits are the reason for cheap foreign workers replacing and turning our Mats/Bengs/Thambis into fulltime leg-shakers at home.
6. Unemployment rate is low because people start calling themselves entrepreneur, consultant, filmmaker, environmentalist, website editor, blogger-preneur, 26-year-old retiree, aspiring model, and equity investor which are euphemism for producing little or nothing.

If NTUC = government with employers constituting the other party, should it be called tri-partism or bi-partism? Does NTUC know how to count?

 

[counsel]

Swee Say worried

Mr Lim, if you are worried, take a pay cut

 

[halsey02]

Mr Lim, if you are worried, take a pay cut

He will recommend that you take a first cut & deepest first, so that, your factories, your companies do not move to other countries.

Will he cry for you, or me, or them or they or we, or it?

"Companies which fail to do so will have to move elsewhere, Mr Lim added. He also stressed that employers should not become overly reliant on Jobs Credit.

When will he ( they) stop LYING?

 

[phouse3]

2 years ago, I went to Vhive Funan Centre to order a sofa-bed.

This male Pinoy sales assistant pulled a fast one on me by showing me an office furniture brochure and asking me where is it? I told him I saw it on Vhive's website. He replied that they don't have internet.

So I told him surely he could check from the system and order from the other branch. He replied that the system was not connected to other branches.

I went to Sim Lim Square branch and the local Mat straight away told me he could check from the system and would telephone his other branch to confirm. The deal was done in less than 5 minutes.

2 weeks ago, I went to Sim Lim Square branch again and found a fat female Pinoy there. I hope the highly efficient Mat has not been replaced.

 

[Watchman]

[COLOR="_______"]When staff are easily replace you know companies are disposing of their accountability ![/COLOR]

 

[johnny333]

[COLOR="_______"]When staff are easily replace you know companies are disposing of their accountability ![/COLOR]

Unfortunately Sporeans are blaming their employers when they should be blaming the gov't. Really surprise that there hasn't been more PAP MPs being burned, shoe throwing incidents,..

 

[halsey02]

Unfortunately Sporeans are blaming their employers when they should be blaming the gov't. Really surprise that there hasn't been more PAP MPs being burned, shoe throwing incidents,..

I won't even want to throw a pair of shoes at them....!!

 

[Ramseth]

I won't even want to throw a pair of shoes at them....!!

Yeah, don't insult your shoes.