It is true, many singaporeans who are contractors of small and meduim sized marine and construction companies will see their rice bowls broken because of this absurd increase.

Who else is going to do the constructing and even the rubbish collection from our flats and homes? Singaporeans?

Also the local employees who act as managers and supervisors will have lose their jobs.

levy or not.. there will be lots of foreigners in Singapore doing work that citizens can and will do if the pay is better..

the panel is just a smoke screen..

PAP dirty tricks again..

I had just visited the Jobstreet Singapore website. And this is what I found – - – - jobs that are suitable for our local PMETs being offered to foreigners…and there are plenty of them from Direct Employers to Recruitment Agencies:

Do visit this site:

http://job-search.jobstreet.com.sg/singapore/job-opening.php?location=70000&nationality=46&job-source=1&src=22

All the governmental statements until last December were in support of it.

GLC being a government owned enterprise will have to follow heed and employ FT as well.

All the more so, when a lot of its work is not that sophisticated.

To think otherwise if naive.

As if it the govt want GLC to employ exclusively Singaporeans and NOT PR, or FT, our GLC cannot do so/ would not follow suit.

Especially when Singaporeans are more productive.

Just putting in a levy is like our system of governance of simply passing monies to GIC and allow it to invest without revealing its system of assessment and risk control rules.

That’s how GIC invested in citibank and UBS and is still bleeding from the investment.

Had the investment being only 10 million, there wouldn’t be so much complaint.

unfortunately, it was more than 10 billion.

What GLC?

Did I write anything on GLC?

in itsel,f the levy is a blunt tool.. but it can be made sharp..

my idea would be $1000 min starting point and graded upwards for very specialised jobs.

grading the type of workers and applying a graduated scale on the levy will help with effecting, at worst, a minimum wage (de-facto) and at best, a competitive rate for wages among singaporeans..

working on such a scale the policy can be furthur improved by adding into it work experience, age, etc…. all with the view of enabling citizens to have a decent pay for their effort..

the focus is to allow citizens to be able to compete on a equal playing field.. at the moment the locals are all disadvantaged by the exorbitant cost of calling singapore home.. while foreigners have the luxury of “escaping” when their work is done..

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what does GLC have to do with?
if anything, it is local right? ;)

The levy can start low so that it does not appear too sudden & be slowly adjusted upward until employers wean themselves out from too much reliance on foreign workers. Hey, we want locals to be employed and they are now trying to do something.

because locals are more productive

His second idea to control costs for SMEs assumes that once costs are lower, SMEs will employ locals. But in reality, that may not be the case. If SMEs have reduced costs, why will they spend the savings on hiring more expensive locals? They can always keep the extra as profit.

I agree with famie & strategist- levies have loopholes especially with kickbacks system that is going on.
sometimes, the employers even make a profit from workers! Quotas may have its own problems in terms of ‘phantom workers’ but it is still relatively effective. the best will be to mix the two.

The MOM must investigate into this matter urgently since kikck-backs are illegal.

I seem to be astonished how come all the arrow is pointing at the hawker.

This guy got a C grade (or B) and passed.

Despite passing, his stall is now found to have an insecticide smell and germs of all kind on his utensils.

How did he pass in the first place?

How come it is always after the fact?

Where is the leadership?

Ok ok ok, I am kidding. I should not expect any leadership from these pigs.

They depend on people to tell them what to do.

PAP runs itself like a profit/loss company. Its not a cost center. Of course, when its GLCs lose money like Temasek & GIC, PAP looks the other way, shrugs & life moves on. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

As some wags put it now, PAP is no longer Peoples Action Party but Foreigners Action Party. Well said.

Those employers who are using female FT like the KTV lounge manager caught naked, would still have to pay and employ these FT.

They have no choice.

The customers of that kind of service will have to pay higher charges like the GST.

So, there would be no change to the situation. Just that the woman and the customer had to work harder that’s all.

Couldn’t MOM train its staff to do proper checks?

Maybe Gan thinks he couldn’t train his staff?

Then there is no leadership by example.