The hike in foreign worker levy may affect a company’s bottomline but consumers too will feel the heat.
“If we are in business we can’t keep on absorbing costs without raising prices, that’s the reality.”
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what so difficult to explain this to our prince the prime minister? he jolly well know what costins is all about..1 decade ago in parliament he grumbled about the cost of maintainnin 2 maids…
is that why..all his meals is taken @ the istana with his father cousins and all the leechers ministers as well? even on a weekend familLEE brunch..it also held in the instana..all ahkong’s accounts…so what do our prime minister and his father’s humoungoose monthLEE salaries do they actualLEE spent on? savin for a crystal coffin perhaps?
the bosses are the main culprit. they continue to pay themselves 10% increment every year and made the consumers bear all the increase in costs. they should be jailed and caned.
What a bunch of crap! when they enjoy savings and maximise profit from the cheaper workers, they never translate the savings to us..
mark lee white coffee gonna hike kopi price or not?
It is clear that employers choose to hire the cheapest labour. This practice is universal. Ask the Americans – their headache to stop Mexicans enter USA illegally but the farmers of Texas and other Southern states will hire readily these illegal Mexicans to water the vegetables, harvest the grapes, etc. Ask the Thai landlord-farmers at the Thailand-Myanmar border who hire cheap Myanmarese refugees. So the situation in Singapore is the same. So long as there is an unending inflow of foreigners into Singapore to work at “sweat shop’ wages, our Singaporean employers will not hesitate to hire them. Ask Mark Lee, who claims that he is a “die-hard Singaporean”, what was he thinking when he was recruiting China nationals as staff for his coffee outlets.
The question is how to help desperately unemployed Singaporeans to get a job given this “cheap labour” paradox in an imminent labour-tight Singapore economy now that the recession has ended.
Make it expensive for employers, like Mark Lee, to hire “cheap labour’ foreigners.
Implement affordable training opportunities and job placements to Singaporeans where these newly trained Singaporeans with highly productive skills will be sought after by employers. Now when these employers are seen to be making more profits in their businesses than their “die-hard unSingaporean” bosses like Mark Lee, we will have taken care of our down-and-out fellow Singaporeans.
It’s as wayang as it gets! Clearly, we indigenous singaporean have long accepted that we need these foriegn workers to build our homes & clear our dishes after a meal.
What we are truly disgruntled about is the fact that there’vE been a huge influx of Executive levels & above Foreigners who crowd with in interview rooms, work w us on the same corporate floors and even in government offices.
Why can’t our leaders see us, born and bred singaporeans, as talents? Why is it that talents can only be pegged with an adjective called Foreign?
In my precious employment, the cina-talent armed with master degree from a Chinese university can’t even read English documents!?!
Where’s our grand leader’s threshold for talents, might I ask? They need not look far.., it’s right here and yet. They simply refuse to acknowlegde!
@Sidekick
Thank you. Your comments validate my comments. We Singaporeans are inundated with foreigners, largely from India and China because of the declining number of Indian-Singaporean and Chinese-Singaporean babies born in the past decade. In the case of the Chinese-Singaporeans, it is below the replacement number. The Indian-Singaporeans are barely replacing themselves. On the other hand, the Malay-Singaporeans have been successful to maintain their replacement number. In fact, notwithstanding the smaller Malay-Singaporean family size today, the Malay-Singaporeans still exceed their replacement number. Therefore, if this pattern continues, the Chinese-Singaporeans will be “history” within 2 generations whilst the Malay-Singaporeans will be the majority ethnic group.
So the influx of foreigner-Indians and foreigner-Chinese is to prevent this potential national problem from happening. So what is the solution? Like hell, the Indian-Singaporeans and Chinese-Singaporeans have to emulate their ancestors and go on a “fast breeding programme”.
Singapore is not alone with this problem. America, Australia and the European Union countries are having the same problem. The dominant white population is increasingly losing their position. In 50 years time, the Hispanics will be the dominant ethnic group followed by the African-American in America. The Americans have no self-correction policy. In Australia, they have introduced more pro-Anglo Saxon policies. The West European countries have no solution.
Can Singapore solve the problem? I am an inherent optimist. We have to be candid with our children of Indian-Singaporean and Chinese-Singaporeans to get serious and get their acts together.
u think the gahman will tell u how much they earn from levies?
Next, you think they will share with u what they taxes?
U think ur pay will increase by 8.8 percent?
If all have heads, is time to broadcast messages to all ppl u know that
someone is trying to con us 2 b lieve they r doing a gd job.
Majority of Singaporeans are suffering now. In the past, I rarely hear
graduating students committing suicide but now, look around u what
had happened. Do we really think the gayman is treating us like well deserving
Singaporeans?
Singaporeans are being cheated all these years by this group of white elephants. It’s time Singaporeans need to stand up and do something about it before more are being killed with no mercy by these bandits. We know politicians around the world are great liars and singapore is no exception either.
why are companies holding the population at ransom for their corporate culture that refuses to move on with times, to innovate to be more efficient?
like the move to get people to clear their own trays (plates, etc) so food establishments can save a few bucks? using “graciousness” to hoodwink others to privatise profits, socialise costs?
if “for profit” entities refuses to help themselves, they deserve no help form the govt & the people. no reason why govt must step in to coax people do help such companies save. afterall, costs will always head north one way or another.
Govt creates a problem.
Govt make money out of the problem.
Genius.