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29-08-2015, 11:10 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Second, do you also know that when companies would like to hire workers on Employment Passes (E Pass), do not need to pay additional levies on these workers or adhere to any quota?
To qualify for the E Pass, foreign workers are required to “earn at least $3,000“. This means that workers on E Passes would directly compete with Singaporean university graduates, whom starting pay is $3,000.
Thus as there are no levies or quotas to hire workers on E Passes, there is no restriction or disincentive for companies to hire foreign workers over Singaporeans in positions which require a degree – and this would necessarily put Singaporeans at a disadvantage. Has this contributed to the over-influx of tertiary-educated workers and the resultant high unemployment?
Not only that, the Ministry of Manpower had also explicitly stated that, “Spouses of Employment Pass holders can work in Singapore.”
Read more here..........http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/08/29...-singaporeans/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/08/29/roy-jobs-how-pap-has-betrayed-singaporeans/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?214133-Roy-explains-why-PMETs-are-losing-jobs-to-FTs&goto=newpost).
Second, do you also know that when companies would like to hire workers on Employment Passes (E Pass), do not need to pay additional levies on these workers or adhere to any quota?
To qualify for the E Pass, foreign workers are required to “earn at least $3,000“. This means that workers on E Passes would directly compete with Singaporean university graduates, whom starting pay is $3,000.
Thus as there are no levies or quotas to hire workers on E Passes, there is no restriction or disincentive for companies to hire foreign workers over Singaporeans in positions which require a degree – and this would necessarily put Singaporeans at a disadvantage. Has this contributed to the over-influx of tertiary-educated workers and the resultant high unemployment?
Not only that, the Ministry of Manpower had also explicitly stated that, “Spouses of Employment Pass holders can work in Singapore.”
Read more here..........http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/08/29...-singaporeans/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/08/29/roy-jobs-how-pap-has-betrayed-singaporeans/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?214133-Roy-explains-why-PMETs-are-losing-jobs-to-FTs&goto=newpost).