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March 15, 2010 by admin
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Stung by rising anger on the ground at the relentless influx of foreigners into Singapore, the state media resorted to playing around with statistics again to mislead Singaporeans into believing that fewer foreign workers were being hired last year.
The Straits Times declared that “the number of foreign workers employed fell by 0.4 percent” last year based on the Labor Report released by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) today:
It also claimed that “more locals were hired last December from a year ago, going up by 41,800 or 2.2 per cent.”
An unsuspecting reader would have believed that Singapore is indeed hiring less foreign workers in accordance to speeches made by PAP leaders lately that the government will reduce its perennial dependence on foreigners.
What was not revealed is the little known fact that MOM lumps “citizens” and “PRs” together under the same category of “locals” and so an increase in the hiring of locals does not automatically translate to more Singapore citizens being employed. (boxed above in red)
For some strange reasons, MOM has refused to reveal the exact numbers of Sinagpore citizens being employed or retrenched in all its official statistics.
Aren’t PRs foreigners too? How can they be considered as “locals” together with native Singaporeans?
Furthermore, given the ease in which Singapore PRs are given out to foreigners like toilet papers, the categorization of PRs as “local” workers make no sense at all as they can be foreigners only a few months ago!
According to Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng, two out of every three PR applicants in Singapore are successful, an astonishingly high success rate for a developed nation.
Unlike other developed countries like Australia and Canada which stipulate a minimum period of residencies before prospective migrants can apply for PRs, there are no such regulations in Singapore.
The state media reported last year of a China National Zhang Yuanyuan who obtained her Singapore PR within two months of application. She worked as a Chinese language teacher in a private school.
Another scheme called the “Landed Permanent Residence” scheme allowed “top notch professionals” to obtain Singapore PR without even setting foot on the country.
[Source: Guide me Singapore]
With so many foreigners “fast-tracked” to become Singapore PRs, the employment statistics provided by MOM are inevitably distorted and do not provide an accurate picture of the reality on the ground.
MOM should stop obfuscating the matter and gives us a breakdown of the exact number of Singapore citizens, PRs and foreigners who are hired in 2009 as well as their respective unemployment rates instead of vague figures and categories like “local” workers.
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March 15, 2010 by admin
Filed under Headlines
Leave a comment
Written by Our Correspondent
Stung by rising anger on the ground at the relentless influx of foreigners into Singapore, the state media resorted to playing around with statistics again to mislead Singaporeans into believing that fewer foreign workers were being hired last year.
The Straits Times declared that “the number of foreign workers employed fell by 0.4 percent” last year based on the Labor Report released by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) today:
It also claimed that “more locals were hired last December from a year ago, going up by 41,800 or 2.2 per cent.”
An unsuspecting reader would have believed that Singapore is indeed hiring less foreign workers in accordance to speeches made by PAP leaders lately that the government will reduce its perennial dependence on foreigners.
What was not revealed is the little known fact that MOM lumps “citizens” and “PRs” together under the same category of “locals” and so an increase in the hiring of locals does not automatically translate to more Singapore citizens being employed. (boxed above in red)
For some strange reasons, MOM has refused to reveal the exact numbers of Sinagpore citizens being employed or retrenched in all its official statistics.
Aren’t PRs foreigners too? How can they be considered as “locals” together with native Singaporeans?
Furthermore, given the ease in which Singapore PRs are given out to foreigners like toilet papers, the categorization of PRs as “local” workers make no sense at all as they can be foreigners only a few months ago!
According to Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng, two out of every three PR applicants in Singapore are successful, an astonishingly high success rate for a developed nation.
Unlike other developed countries like Australia and Canada which stipulate a minimum period of residencies before prospective migrants can apply for PRs, there are no such regulations in Singapore.
The state media reported last year of a China National Zhang Yuanyuan who obtained her Singapore PR within two months of application. She worked as a Chinese language teacher in a private school.
Another scheme called the “Landed Permanent Residence” scheme allowed “top notch professionals” to obtain Singapore PR without even setting foot on the country.
[Source: Guide me Singapore]
With so many foreigners “fast-tracked” to become Singapore PRs, the employment statistics provided by MOM are inevitably distorted and do not provide an accurate picture of the reality on the ground.
MOM should stop obfuscating the matter and gives us a breakdown of the exact number of Singapore citizens, PRs and foreigners who are hired in 2009 as well as their respective unemployment rates instead of vague figures and categories like “local” workers.
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