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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/0...-but-are-they-for-singaporeans-or-foreigners/
According to the latest Robert Walters Asia Job Index report, employer confidence has returned in Singapore with all its banks hiring again.
Besides the financial industry, IT, fast moving consumer goods, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors continue to employ “top talent” in Singapore.
The Manpower Ministry claimed that the unemployment rate for locals have decreased to 3 per cent, but the exact figure for Singapore citizens remains unknown since “locals” include both citizens and PRs.
Neither does the figure includes those on contract jobs or have given up looking for a job altogether and therefore can be considered as unemployed technically.
A quick search on Singapore’s online job portals reveals that quite a substantial number of ads are looking specifically for foreigners:
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jobads01.jpg
Some job portals like gumtree resembles more like those in China than in Singapore:
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/themes/church_10/images/thumbnails/gumtree01.jpg
The above job ad is seeking for PRC or Malaysian Chinese to fill the position of bakery and kitchen supervisor.
This is not a position requiring special skills nor will Singaporeans shun it and so why are foreigners preferred over Singaporeans?
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/themes/church_10/images/thumbnails/gumtree02.jpg
In the second ad above, the employer is looking for a PRC candidate to become a sales promoter and one condition is that he/she must speak English! Won’t the employer stand a higher chance of finding a Singaporean who can speak English?
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/themes/church_10/images/thumbnails/gumtree03.jpg
The company above is looking specifically for a China driver with valid Singapore driving licence. It will be easier if it recruits Singaporeans instead. Are workers from China better drivers than Singaporeans.
Such discriminatory ads against Singaporeans are ubiquitous throughout Singapore’s online job portals. Though MOM forbids such ads, they are still put up either overtly or covertly (in the form of euphemisms) to recruit foreign workers.
While other countries like Australia are cracking down on migrant workers to protect the livelihoods of their own citizens, the ruling party of Singapore continues to welcome foreigners.
Ministry of Youth Development, Community and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said lately that the government cannot “shield” Singaporeans from competition with foreigners though it will “try” to equip them with the skills to do so.
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said last year that there will be no “turnaround” in the ruling party’s pro-foreigner policy and that the number of foreign workers may actually increase in the next few years.
With more than one third of Singapore’s populations being foreigners and an undisclosed number of the “local” workforce being PRs, it matters little to Singaporeans if the number of job ads are actually increasing or decreasing.
According to the latest Robert Walters Asia Job Index report, employer confidence has returned in Singapore with all its banks hiring again.
Besides the financial industry, IT, fast moving consumer goods, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors continue to employ “top talent” in Singapore.
The Manpower Ministry claimed that the unemployment rate for locals have decreased to 3 per cent, but the exact figure for Singapore citizens remains unknown since “locals” include both citizens and PRs.
Neither does the figure includes those on contract jobs or have given up looking for a job altogether and therefore can be considered as unemployed technically.
A quick search on Singapore’s online job portals reveals that quite a substantial number of ads are looking specifically for foreigners:
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jobads01.jpg
Some job portals like gumtree resembles more like those in China than in Singapore:
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/themes/church_10/images/thumbnails/gumtree01.jpg
The above job ad is seeking for PRC or Malaysian Chinese to fill the position of bakery and kitchen supervisor.
This is not a position requiring special skills nor will Singaporeans shun it and so why are foreigners preferred over Singaporeans?
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/themes/church_10/images/thumbnails/gumtree02.jpg
In the second ad above, the employer is looking for a PRC candidate to become a sales promoter and one condition is that he/she must speak English! Won’t the employer stand a higher chance of finding a Singaporean who can speak English?
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/themes/church_10/images/thumbnails/gumtree03.jpg
The company above is looking specifically for a China driver with valid Singapore driving licence. It will be easier if it recruits Singaporeans instead. Are workers from China better drivers than Singaporeans.
Such discriminatory ads against Singaporeans are ubiquitous throughout Singapore’s online job portals. Though MOM forbids such ads, they are still put up either overtly or covertly (in the form of euphemisms) to recruit foreign workers.
While other countries like Australia are cracking down on migrant workers to protect the livelihoods of their own citizens, the ruling party of Singapore continues to welcome foreigners.
Ministry of Youth Development, Community and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said lately that the government cannot “shield” Singaporeans from competition with foreigners though it will “try” to equip them with the skills to do so.
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said last year that there will be no “turnaround” in the ruling party’s pro-foreigner policy and that the number of foreign workers may actually increase in the next few years.
With more than one third of Singapore’s populations being foreigners and an undisclosed number of the “local” workforce being PRs, it matters little to Singaporeans if the number of job ads are actually increasing or decreasing.
