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25 May 2012, 11.00PM

9 comments & replies |by Guest | Learn and Earn

Foreigners appeared to have benefited more from Singapore’s booming economy than Singaporeans, according to shocking statistics revealed by Bloomberg.

In an article published today, Bloomberg revealed the majority of jobs created in Singapore last year went to foreigners and not locals:

“Of the 122,600 jobs created in Singapore last year, about 70 percent, or 84,800 positions, went to foreigners.”

The percentage of jobs going to Singapore citizens is likely to be less as the country lumps citizens and PRs under the same category of ‘locals’ in all its statistics.

Despite the wide discrepancy in the number of new jobs going to Singaporeans and foreigners, Singapore’s unemployment rate remains low at around 2.5 percent.

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Guest

26 May 2012, 12.06AM

WHAT!!!!!

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Nova

26 May 2012, 12.40AM

I hope more singaporeans wake up and see whats happening around them.

Guest

26 May 2012, 11.22PM

If you look at company like Saytam, 90% of their staff are from India. They only employ Singapoream if the customer inistist that the project manager must be singaporean. Otherwise, default is indian from india.
They are competing by lower cost and is easy for these IT professional to work in Singapore. Hence for older IT professional they have problem after lay off with these companies around and most companies including government does not employ these older worker although they are willing to accept much lower pay!

Guest

28 May 2012, 5.05PM

A friend from the IT industry told me this. Government outsourced an IT project to a company reg in Singapore. 80% of their IT staff are foreigners with questionable qualifications..

When there is a requirement to meet with the ministries, only the Singapore staff can attend meeting due to security reasons. The Singapore staff then goes back to office and transfer the meeting requirement to the foreign staff.

Where is the security firewall ??

To make matters worst, the foreign IT staff can't do a good job.

At the end of the day tax payers money is used to create jobs for foreign workers who cannot deliver. Who is there to check if the job is done properly at the end of the day ?

Will the manager who awarded the job sign off the acceptance certificate just to cover his back side even if the job is not done properly ?

Guest

29 May 2012, 1.10PM

They're not the only ones. I work for Silicon Laboratories here too. About 100 staff and you can count Singaporeans with just one hand.

They recently got rid of our Singaporean IT guy who has been with the company for 7 years or something like that. The staff that know him said he is very competent and handled a lot more than just IT for the company, yet they retrenched him and replaced him with some Ah Tiong from China who never even set foot in Sngapore before this.

You think this Singaporean guy got any agency to go to and report this? Of course not! Singaporeans are dying under the PAP's self serving policies.

Guest

26 May 2012, 10.14AM

I am a citizen and bear a deep hurt caused by MoM and the many previous ex- Ministers of Manpower.

But I supose Bloomberg is an exception as their job is extremly high-level ie meant for MBA and above only. I do agree that all companies, depending on the job nature must have a Q-pass quota ie Semi-skilled: Q-pass: SPRs: Citizens

As for the the rest of the financial institution like Citibank, UOB, ICBC. . . etc should work towards Chen Show Mau's suggestion by forming a cluster, so that the good jobs are left for our own citizens. Just look at our boys and girls everyday in the streets, selling Stand Chart Credit Card these 3 weeks! Shouldn't they have a decent full-time job instead of running around doing unwanted part-time jobs?

In all, if MoM does not want to execute a quota for Q -pass, the so-called hidden slective rejection will still form cracks! Being in the management, I am fully aware of the 101 excuses to corner MoM to approve "unwanted talent" and headcount for SG office.

Guest

26 May 2012, 8.03PM

They sold us to foreigners?

Guest

1 Jun 2012, 8.38AM

Not sold us to foreigners.

They are controlled by foreigners. THey are hand tied up.

Guest

7 Jun 2012, 11.14PM

If foreigners are so easily rope in, no employer will care to re-engineer the job or compromise to take in locals. Many jobs are actually re-designed to suit the foreigners. For example, 2 cleaners used to cover 7am to 10pm job, but has been replaced by a foreigner. You can't imagine the cleaner in their 50's cover those long hours alone. This is the reason the employer give to rope in foreigner. Local will lose out.