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</td><td class="msgFname" width="68%" nowrap="nowrap">SGNEWSALTE <nobr></nobr> </td><td class="msgDate" align="right" width="30%" nowrap="nowrap">Aug-7 9:45 am </td></tr> <tr class="msghead"><td class="msgT" align="right" width="1%" height="20" nowrap="nowrap">To: </td><td class="msgTname" width="68%" nowrap="nowrap">ALL <nobr></nobr></td> <td class="msgNum" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"> (1 of 26) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4" class="msgleft" width="1%"> </td><td class="wintiny" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">18518.1 </td></tr><tr><td height="8">
</td></tr> <tr><td class="msgtxt">See how quickly both million $ PAP ministers Gan Kim Yong & Mah Bow Tan jump to the defence of foreign trash against Singaporean. Why are you stupid 66.6% still voting for such traitors?
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_413878.html
TWO ministers on Friday cautioned against calls to reduce employers' access to foreign workers as a way to improve the productivity of the Singapore worker.
Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong said it 'may be too simplistic to assume' such a move will automatically lead to higher worker output.
Echoing this view, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said at another event: 'Just zeroing in on foreign workers alone is not the total solution.'
But he conceded 'it is something that needs to be looked at'.
Their comments come a day after labour MP Josephine Teo called on the Government to re-tune foreign worker policies, saying easy access to foreigners could be a reason productivity is sliding. It dipped 15.4 per cent in the first quarter, compared to the same period last year, continuing a steady decline since the last quarter of 2007.
Responding to Mrs Teo, Mr Gan said such policies must be calibrated carefully.
'If we are not careful, it will instead create rigidity and distortion in the labour market, add costs to businesses and undermine their competitiveness,' he said in a speech at his ministry's National Day observance ceremony.
'To achieve real sustainable growth in productivity, there is no alternative to concerted efforts by all parties and a lot of hard work on the ground.'
The issue of reducing reliance on foreign workers also cropped up at the National Day ceremony of NTUC's Employment and Employability Institute, whichMr Mah attended.
Citing the construction sector, he told reporters: 'Just reducing the dependence on massive amounts of cheap labour is not the answer to our productivity problems...we need to make the job more attractive, make the industry more attractive.'
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</td><td class="msgFname" width="68%" nowrap="nowrap">SGNEWSALTE <nobr></nobr> </td><td class="msgDate" align="right" width="30%" nowrap="nowrap">Aug-7 9:45 am </td></tr> <tr class="msghead"><td class="msgT" align="right" width="1%" height="20" nowrap="nowrap">To: </td><td class="msgTname" width="68%" nowrap="nowrap">ALL <nobr></nobr></td> <td class="msgNum" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"> (1 of 26) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4" class="msgleft" width="1%"> </td><td class="wintiny" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">18518.1 </td></tr><tr><td height="8">
</td></tr> <tr><td class="msgtxt">See how quickly both million $ PAP ministers Gan Kim Yong & Mah Bow Tan jump to the defence of foreign trash against Singaporean. Why are you stupid 66.6% still voting for such traitors?
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_413878.html
TWO ministers on Friday cautioned against calls to reduce employers' access to foreign workers as a way to improve the productivity of the Singapore worker.
Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong said it 'may be too simplistic to assume' such a move will automatically lead to higher worker output.
Echoing this view, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said at another event: 'Just zeroing in on foreign workers alone is not the total solution.'
But he conceded 'it is something that needs to be looked at'.
Their comments come a day after labour MP Josephine Teo called on the Government to re-tune foreign worker policies, saying easy access to foreigners could be a reason productivity is sliding. It dipped 15.4 per cent in the first quarter, compared to the same period last year, continuing a steady decline since the last quarter of 2007.
Responding to Mrs Teo, Mr Gan said such policies must be calibrated carefully.
'If we are not careful, it will instead create rigidity and distortion in the labour market, add costs to businesses and undermine their competitiveness,' he said in a speech at his ministry's National Day observance ceremony.
'To achieve real sustainable growth in productivity, there is no alternative to concerted efforts by all parties and a lot of hard work on the ground.'
The issue of reducing reliance on foreign workers also cropped up at the National Day ceremony of NTUC's Employment and Employability Institute, whichMr Mah attended.
Citing the construction sector, he told reporters: 'Just reducing the dependence on massive amounts of cheap labour is not the answer to our productivity problems...we need to make the job more attractive, make the industry more attractive.'
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