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March 27, 2010 by Our Correspondent
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/03/27/singapore-bus-company-mass-recruiting-prc-bus-drivers-from-chengdu-china/
Written by Our Correspondent
According to a Sichuan newspaper, an unknown ¡°big¡± Singapore bus company is currently mass recruiting prospective bus drivers from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, China. (read article here)
It has so far recruited about 80 people between the ages of 23 and 42. They are offered annual salaries ranging between RMB90,000 and RMB120,000 (approximately $1,562 ¨C $2,082 monthly taking S$1 = RMB4.80)
The applicants must have a Chinese class ¡°A¡± driver and three years of driving experience of public transport in China.
Our correspondent based in China told us that a PRC bus driver earns between RMB2,000 ¨C RMB4,000 depending on the provinces and cities they work in.
On top of the attractive wages, they are also given free lodging, transport allowances and medical insurance coverage.
PAP leaders have always claimed that foreigners are needed to take up jobs shunned by Singaporeans.
Singapore bus companies should have few problems attracting Singaporeans to join them as bus captains if they offer such attractive terms as the above to them. Why are they mass recruiting PRC bus drivers instead?
Do they have any special skills which Singaporeans lack?
The driving direction is different in China ¨C the steering wheel is located on the left-hand side of vehicles instead of the right in Singapore which means the traffic flows in opposite directions.
Furthermore, it is much easier to obtain a China driving licence than a Singapore one. Corruption is rampant in China and often a few hundred dollars of ¡°tea money¡± or ¡°²èË®·Ñ¡± will sufficient to help struggling candidates pass their driving test.
Due to Singapore¡¯s liberal immigration policies and lax labor laws, foreigners are allowed to work in Singapore in any sector without any proper screening or controls.
Foreigners now make up more than one third of Singapore¡¯s total labor force or 44 percent if PRs are included.
For some strange reasons, PRs are lumped together with citizens as ¡°local¡± workforce in all the official statistics used by the Ministry of Manpower though they are non-Singaporeans and therefore technically speaking, foreigners.
Though there is a dependency ratio for foreign workers to be fulfilled, it is easy circumvented by getting earlier arrivals to apply for PRs.
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng revealed lately that two out of every three PR applicants are successful in Singapore, an astonishing high success rate for a developed nation.
The bus company will probably ¡°fast-tracked¡± the 80 new PRC drivers to take up Singapore PRs to free up more empty slots for them to employ more PRC drivers.
This will not only keep the profit margins high but help the desperate PAP increase Singapore¡¯s population via immigration as well.
At the end of the day, it is native Singaporeans who are getting a poor deal from their ¡°elected¡± government.
Non-Chinese Singaporeans may soon have to learn basic ¡°putonghua¡± or ¡°ÆÕͨ»°¡± to communicate with these PRC bus drivers whose numbers are increasing in Singapore no thanks to the PAP¡¯s pro-foreigner policy.
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March 27, 2010 by Our Correspondent
Filed under Headlines
Leave a comment
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/03/27/singapore-bus-company-mass-recruiting-prc-bus-drivers-from-chengdu-china/
Written by Our Correspondent
According to a Sichuan newspaper, an unknown ¡°big¡± Singapore bus company is currently mass recruiting prospective bus drivers from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, China. (read article here)
It has so far recruited about 80 people between the ages of 23 and 42. They are offered annual salaries ranging between RMB90,000 and RMB120,000 (approximately $1,562 ¨C $2,082 monthly taking S$1 = RMB4.80)
The applicants must have a Chinese class ¡°A¡± driver and three years of driving experience of public transport in China.
Our correspondent based in China told us that a PRC bus driver earns between RMB2,000 ¨C RMB4,000 depending on the provinces and cities they work in.
On top of the attractive wages, they are also given free lodging, transport allowances and medical insurance coverage.
PAP leaders have always claimed that foreigners are needed to take up jobs shunned by Singaporeans.
Singapore bus companies should have few problems attracting Singaporeans to join them as bus captains if they offer such attractive terms as the above to them. Why are they mass recruiting PRC bus drivers instead?
Do they have any special skills which Singaporeans lack?
The driving direction is different in China ¨C the steering wheel is located on the left-hand side of vehicles instead of the right in Singapore which means the traffic flows in opposite directions.
Furthermore, it is much easier to obtain a China driving licence than a Singapore one. Corruption is rampant in China and often a few hundred dollars of ¡°tea money¡± or ¡°²èË®·Ñ¡± will sufficient to help struggling candidates pass their driving test.
Due to Singapore¡¯s liberal immigration policies and lax labor laws, foreigners are allowed to work in Singapore in any sector without any proper screening or controls.
Foreigners now make up more than one third of Singapore¡¯s total labor force or 44 percent if PRs are included.
For some strange reasons, PRs are lumped together with citizens as ¡°local¡± workforce in all the official statistics used by the Ministry of Manpower though they are non-Singaporeans and therefore technically speaking, foreigners.
Though there is a dependency ratio for foreign workers to be fulfilled, it is easy circumvented by getting earlier arrivals to apply for PRs.
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng revealed lately that two out of every three PR applicants are successful in Singapore, an astonishing high success rate for a developed nation.
The bus company will probably ¡°fast-tracked¡± the 80 new PRC drivers to take up Singapore PRs to free up more empty slots for them to employ more PRC drivers.
This will not only keep the profit margins high but help the desperate PAP increase Singapore¡¯s population via immigration as well.
At the end of the day, it is native Singaporeans who are getting a poor deal from their ¡°elected¡± government.
Non-Chinese Singaporeans may soon have to learn basic ¡°putonghua¡± or ¡°ÆÕͨ»°¡± to communicate with these PRC bus drivers whose numbers are increasing in Singapore no thanks to the PAP¡¯s pro-foreigner policy.
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