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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject: Keppel massive drive to recruit Malaysians</TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap>
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=3 width="90%" align=center><TBODY><TR><TD>Quote:</TD></TR><TR><TD class=quote>The Star on 6 March 2010
The Star by Keppel Offshore and Marine, a GLC owned partly by Temasek Holdings for job vacancies in Singapore for managerial and engineering positions.
The candidates are advised to send their resumes to the Human Resource Department of Keppel Corp Ltd at 50 Gul Road, Singapore 629351. Singapore govt has always argued that foreign workers are needed to take up jobs shunned by Singaporeans.
Singapore produces over 1,000 engineers yearly from NUS and NTU. Are there a shortage of engineers in Singapore? Why does Keppel need to go all the way to Malaysia to recruit their engineers? Are Malaysian engineers more highly trained and qualified than Singapore engineers?
GLC has openly disregarded the government’s call to reduce Singapore’s dependence on foreign workers. How can we expect the other companies and MNCs to follow suit?
Based on anecdotal evidence from our readers, companies are still recruiting foreign workers who are preferred over Singaporeans due to their much lower cost and willingness to work for long hours. One GP we spoke to claimed that he does about five to ten work permit renewals for foreign workers a day.
It is quite obvious that the govt is only playing lip-service to reducing the influx of foreigners into Singapore
The rosy employment figures provided by the Ministry of Manpower lump PRs and citizens together as one category – “locals”. The exact unemployment rate and numbers of citizens in various industries remain unknown to this very day.
As Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong admitted himself, the recent “changes” in policies do not mark a major “U-turn” in the govt’s “FT policy” and that the number of foreign workers may actually increase in the next few months ahead.
It is the duty of the government of the day to provide every Singapore citizen with a job which pays a decent wage commensurate with the standard of living in Singapore and not just to give them the “dignity” of having a job only, to quote the words of PAP MP and NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Halimah Yacob.
Unless wholesale changes are made to current labor laws to forbid the recruitment of foreign workers for positions like managers and engineers which can otherwise by filled by citizens, Singapore companies, including the GLCs will continue their discriminatory practices of putting up job advertisements in other countries.
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Joined: 16 Mar 2010
Posts: 36
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject: Keppel massive drive to recruit Malaysians</TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap> </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=3 width="90%" align=center><TBODY><TR><TD>Quote:</TD></TR><TR><TD class=quote>The Star on 6 March 2010 The Star by Keppel Offshore and Marine, a GLC owned partly by Temasek Holdings for job vacancies in Singapore for managerial and engineering positions.
The candidates are advised to send their resumes to the Human Resource Department of Keppel Corp Ltd at 50 Gul Road, Singapore 629351. Singapore govt has always argued that foreign workers are needed to take up jobs shunned by Singaporeans.
Singapore produces over 1,000 engineers yearly from NUS and NTU. Are there a shortage of engineers in Singapore? Why does Keppel need to go all the way to Malaysia to recruit their engineers? Are Malaysian engineers more highly trained and qualified than Singapore engineers?
GLC has openly disregarded the government’s call to reduce Singapore’s dependence on foreign workers. How can we expect the other companies and MNCs to follow suit?
Based on anecdotal evidence from our readers, companies are still recruiting foreign workers who are preferred over Singaporeans due to their much lower cost and willingness to work for long hours. One GP we spoke to claimed that he does about five to ten work permit renewals for foreign workers a day.
It is quite obvious that the govt is only playing lip-service to reducing the influx of foreigners into Singapore
The rosy employment figures provided by the Ministry of Manpower lump PRs and citizens together as one category – “locals”. The exact unemployment rate and numbers of citizens in various industries remain unknown to this very day.
As Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong admitted himself, the recent “changes” in policies do not mark a major “U-turn” in the govt’s “FT policy” and that the number of foreign workers may actually increase in the next few months ahead.
It is the duty of the government of the day to provide every Singapore citizen with a job which pays a decent wage commensurate with the standard of living in Singapore and not just to give them the “dignity” of having a job only, to quote the words of PAP MP and NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Halimah Yacob.
Unless wholesale changes are made to current labor laws to forbid the recruitment of foreign workers for positions like managers and engineers which can otherwise by filled by citizens, Singapore companies, including the GLCs will continue their discriminatory practices of putting up job advertisements in other countries.
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