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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Who wanna work for $800/mth?</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>Spearmint000 (Spearmint888) <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>6:21 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 9) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>29155.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Why these fark companies keep bitching about Singaporeans shun these job. Fark $800/mth after CPF left with $640. How to live on that? Please la wake up, our salaries are not meeting the high cost of living in SG. Just imagine the person has a family to feed.
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Difficulty finding workers for cleaning services
By Ng Jing Yng, TODAY | Posted: 25 February hrs
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SINGAPORE: Having worked in the cleaning business for the last two decades, Richard Wong, 55, knows how tough a job it can be.
Low wages, disgruntled customers and, these days as a senior supervisor overseeing a large pool of staff, he also faces the difficulty of finding enough people to meet the rising demand for cleaning services.
"People will only take up a cleaning job as a last resort. The pay is not attractive and it is hard to be enthusiastic about the job," said Mr Wong.
A person starting in the job gets S$800 a month and might have to work shifts. While the social stigma associated with the job deters many from signing up, most cleaners said that having to accept low wages is an even bigger put-off - resulting in such jobs being done only by older people or unskilled foreign workers.
Mr Wong expects the manpower crunch to get worse once higher levies to curb the numbers of foreign workers are imposed.
The government will place "additional emphasis" on retraining and upgrading older, low-wage Singaporean workers through schemes that will allow employers up to 95-per-cent funding for absentee payroll and course fee outlays. Employees, too, will be given S$400 after they complete the course.
But, like Mr Wong, others said it would be better if the supplements could be used to boost their pay instead.
Ms Wong Sioe Fa, an official from UMC ServiceMaster, which provides cleaning services to major hospitals and hotels here, agreed that training is vital, but workers have always treated "bread and butter issues as their main priority".
Her company is facing a manpower crunch. Having already signed contracts for cleaning services, it is now under pressure to find enough Singaporean workers as it would not be viable to employ foreign workers. "Pumping up the pay through wage supplements is a useful carrot to attract locals," said Ms Wong.
Cleaning supervisor Low Siew Eng also said that many in their 50s to 60s feel that they are too old to benefit from skills upgrading.
Cleaner Wong Qing Jiao, a spry 62, is an exception. "I want to learn as much and upgrade myself while I still can. I would be glad to have more pay - who doesn't? - but money isn't everything," she said.
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Difficulty finding workers for cleaning services
By Ng Jing Yng, TODAY | Posted: 25 February hrs
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SINGAPORE: Having worked in the cleaning business for the last two decades, Richard Wong, 55, knows how tough a job it can be.
Low wages, disgruntled customers and, these days as a senior supervisor overseeing a large pool of staff, he also faces the difficulty of finding enough people to meet the rising demand for cleaning services.
"People will only take up a cleaning job as a last resort. The pay is not attractive and it is hard to be enthusiastic about the job," said Mr Wong.
A person starting in the job gets S$800 a month and might have to work shifts. While the social stigma associated with the job deters many from signing up, most cleaners said that having to accept low wages is an even bigger put-off - resulting in such jobs being done only by older people or unskilled foreign workers.
Mr Wong expects the manpower crunch to get worse once higher levies to curb the numbers of foreign workers are imposed.
The government will place "additional emphasis" on retraining and upgrading older, low-wage Singaporean workers through schemes that will allow employers up to 95-per-cent funding for absentee payroll and course fee outlays. Employees, too, will be given S$400 after they complete the course.
But, like Mr Wong, others said it would be better if the supplements could be used to boost their pay instead.
Ms Wong Sioe Fa, an official from UMC ServiceMaster, which provides cleaning services to major hospitals and hotels here, agreed that training is vital, but workers have always treated "bread and butter issues as their main priority".
Her company is facing a manpower crunch. Having already signed contracts for cleaning services, it is now under pressure to find enough Singaporean workers as it would not be viable to employ foreign workers. "Pumping up the pay through wage supplements is a useful carrot to attract locals," said Ms Wong.
Cleaning supervisor Low Siew Eng also said that many in their 50s to 60s feel that they are too old to benefit from skills upgrading.
Cleaner Wong Qing Jiao, a spry 62, is an exception. "I want to learn as much and upgrade myself while I still can. I would be glad to have more pay - who doesn't? - but money isn't everything," she said.
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