Hello, you forgot the SIT Flats & HDB Flats, your mother & even your grandma built!...the samsui women..construction back then, was done 99% Singaporeans, 1% others, which included Malaysians.
Hello, you forgot the SIT Flats & HDB Flats, your mother & even your grandma built!...the samsui women..construction back then, was done 99% Singaporeans, 1% others, which included Malaysians.
People have poor memory. They probably thought the British built it for us.
Singaporeans are not complaining about construction workers, maids etc who fill a necessary void. They are complaining about open gate policy to any foreigner from right across the various vocations including management positions who either undercut their salary expectations to get jobs or who produce false and fraudulent when it comes to qualifications.
We had Venezuelan Prof for 8 years in A*Star and NUS who had tampered with his research work. The only reason he got caught was because he was foolish enough to apply for a job in the UK and his peers realised he had no clue what he was doing within weeks of employing him. We also had a PRC who was barred by the Medical Board but came to Singapore and rose thru the ranks and became a full professor in NUS.
Singaporeans are not complaining about construction workers, maids etc who fill a necessary void. They are complaining about open gate policy to any foreigner from right across the various vocations including management positions who either undercut their salary expectations to get jobs or who produce false and fraudulent when it comes to qualifications.
We had Venezuelan Prof for 8 years in A*Star and NUS who had tampered with his research work. The only reason he got caught was because he was foolish enough to apply for a job in the UK and his peers realised he had no clue what he was doing within weeks of employing him. We also had a PRC who was barred by the Medical Board but came to Singapore and rose thru the ranks and became a full professor in NUS.
Void? I would argue there is no void. It is supply and demand and price of services.
If the solution to the demand for a particular service that is deemed too expensive by society is to import dirt cheap almost slave labor from neighboring third world countries, then you open up Pandora's box.
Just insert any job/profession into the above "Particular service" and you have basically the attitude and culture of Singapore and Singaporeans.
It is precisely because no one complained about construction workers and maids being imported for dirt cheap prices that it spread to plumbers, carpenters, welders, car mechanics, electricians, handymen, general laborers, cleaners, security guards, porters, window cleaners, IT professionals, Administrative staff, librarians, teachers, nurses, clerks, legal assistants, engineers, doctors and lawyers.
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
Singaporeans are against the white collar PMETs who don't bring in additional skills that Singaporeans don't have, but merely fill up job positions that could have been filled by locals, and also depress wages. No one in his right mind begrudges migrant workers or domestic workers.
It is precisely because no one complained about construction workers and maids being imported for dirt cheap prices that it spread to plumbers, carpenters, welders, car mechanics, electricians, handymen, general laborers, cleaners, security guards, porters, window cleaners, IT professionals, Administrative staff, librarians, teachers, nurses, clerks, legal assistants, engineers, doctors and lawyers.
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
except for the PAPPIES!!their salaries only seem to get higher and higher.
There are two distinct classes of foreigners: Migrant workers who perform necessary work and whom Singaporeans don't begrudge, and foreign white collar PMETs who come in by the droves and depress wages without offering new skills. It is the latter that have caused underemployment amongst Singaporeans aged 35 and above. It is the gross mismanagement of the PMET intake that has riled Singaporeans.
Today, Singapore is for the Familee, tbeir Cronies and FT. Locals can be considered Squatters, your maximum time of pigeon hole expires 99 yrs, even ur CPF does not belong to you, anymore. What is Spore for Sporean, rubbish?
U guys really on the wrong track! The reason for FT is they work for Low wages and don't kpkb! So that the bosses can enjoy max profits! U replace with old greying uncles/aunties who ask for more pay and the bosses will be thinking what the fcuk am I doing this for! Might as well sell the biz and play Golf!