Employment conditions to deteriorate this year as growth slows
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Ricky L • Remove
I don't expect the unemployment problem faced by Singaporean PMETs to be solved in the near term or even medium term. In fact, it feel like a sense of helpless - like what Singapore face when SARs hit, where the whole Nation feel helpless and feel lost how to solve the SARs hitting home and taking down so many casaulties.
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This does not help when the World Economy is now showing sign of trouble in day 1 - 2016 - a meltdown in the stock market - signalling losing confident in the business sentiment.
Unless we see a slew of Economic measures and concrete actions that will genuinely resolved the Singaporean PMETs unemployment problem - there are no good news.
The labour tight problem only apply to SMEs ---- it does not apply to Singaporean PMETs.
The priority now is not focusing on Singaporean PMETs especially matured Singaporean PMETs.
All the effort are focused on SMEs and even getting disabled, elderly, housewives etc plus machine to help SMEs.
Singaporean PMETs will have to tighten your belt, eat less, spend less - and just wait - abit long long .....
Ricky L • Remove
In US, when their citizens are unemployed, they can file for jobless claim.Reply
Singapore does not offer such claim. Jobless your business.
Actually Singapore should try allowing unemployed citizens to register themselves for jobless claim - but in return Government agencies match them to organizations that :-
(1) do social service jobs - in return for the jobless claim
(2) do those jobs whereby sectors are tight on manpower (tie up with Government agencies providing jobless claim) - in return for the jobless claim.
(3) do temporary jobs or contract jobs (tie up with Government agencies providing jobless claim) - in return for the jobless claim.
This will temporary help unemployed Singaporeans to tie over the period where they are unemployed with some $ claims - at least a better option than jobless claim.
But now nothing of this sort are provided to unemployed citizens - almost like saying you jobless your business --- you die your business.
Ricky L • Remove
Also wonder whether anyone has positive experience with the WDA Job Portal?Reply
It look like is a Portal for foreigners and not Singaporeans.
The jobs are posted there - to meet the statutory requirements - and when the 14 days is up, the jobs will be offered to foreigners.
Even if you post resumes to those jobs you think is a good match - you will hardly be called up for interview.
Just wondering why Singaporeans have so much difficulties finding jobs in our own Country while foreigners are given special privileges to get the jobs in Singapore at the expense of Singaporeans.
Wonder what is the success rate of the WDA Job Portal in recruiting Singaporeans - is there publish statistics on how effective is this Job Portal ?
Also if there is success rate, how long does successful candidates keep their jobs?
How many of these jobs are eventually offered to foreigners vis-a-vis Singaporeans?
- WWilliam • Report Abuse
My son is a matured Singaporean PMET. He got his current job through the WDA Job Portal. He was earlier laid off from his previous job.
But, I do hope our Ministry does monitor that job portal and keep track of companies that hire foreigners after the 14 days are up, and also question these companies thoroughly as to why certain Singaporean applicants who seem to meet the job requirements are rejected.
Ricky L • Remove
Thanks William for your information. Your son is a lucky one.
Ricky L • Remove
Singapore is in a strange situation whereby foreigners find it easier to find jobs in Singapore while Singaporeans are facing alot of difficulties finding jobs.
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William • Report Abuse
How do you know it is easier for foreigners to find jobs in Singapore? Other than the low-skilled jobs which most Singaporeans do not want to do and those that really require very specialized skills, I don't see them as having an easy time finding jobs in Singapore.
I think such feedback is very misleading to the govt, as it leads them in the wrong direction for improving the employment conditions. The govt should implement policies to create more job vacancies by improving the conditions for doing business here so as to attract more companies to come here to do business, which translates into them hiring more people out of necessity, rather than continue focusing on reducing foreign workers/talents, who have already been adequately reduced.
Ricky L • Remove
Well my assessment of more foreigners taking over the jobs of Singaporeans is very simple ----- go to every organisation and count the number of foreigners vis-a-vis local Singaporeans including GLCs for PMETs.
Just look at the IT sectors, the banking sectors, the manufacturing, the service sectors etc.
You will discover a large percentage of workforce are actually foreigners.
Ricky L • Remove
Another assessment - a rough count of the WDA job portal is about 15,000 jobs to 30,000 jobs for PMETs.
9,000 Singaporean PMETs are unemployed. With 15,000 jobs to 30,000 jobs in the job portal, there should be no problem making 9,000 unemployed Singaporean PMETs employed - but this is not the case.
Many who uses the job portal does not have a positive response or no response.
Can you deduce what happens to all the job vacancies?
Is this misinformation to the Government or should the Government look closely at the situation and try to improve the unemployed situation for Singaporean PMETs?
Ricky L • Remove
I have no problem if Singaporeans get the priority for jobs and supplemented by foreign workforce with Singaporeans as the core workers.
The current situation is, foreigners have become the core workers and Singaporeans cannot find jobs or has become secondary workers with high risk of losing jobs.
This is not an acceptable situation.
- WWilliam • Report Abuse
I don't know about the IT sector, but when I look at the other sectors you mentioned, the foreigners are actually taking up jobs which most Singaporeans usually don't want, like production operators, cleaners... etc. If you want them, I am sure it's not hard to find them with ei2.
You can't just look at the total number of jobs and deduce that way, as not all 9000 Sg PMETs can fit nicely into them. TO give an exaggerated example for simple illustration, if you have 9000 PMETs from the hotel industry looking for jobs at the WDA portal and the 29000 jobs are from the financial industry while only 1 job is from the hotel industry, it is still 9000 relevant job applicants competing for just 1 relevant job vacancy.
Ricky L • Remove
William, you only think that foreigners are mainly found in construction, maids, cleaners etc which is no longer the case.
Just go to every large IT companies and do a count. Very high percentage are foreigners - if you work in the IT companies - for a while, you will feel that you are not in Singapore - you thought that you are in a foreign land.
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I still don't see foreigners becoming the core workers.
The current situation is still job vacancies are way fewer than the number of Singaporeans looking for jobs. It's probably in the ratio of
many Singaporeans : one job -
Ok give you this information.
My previous job in manufacturing - 70% are foreigners.
The job before in IT - 50% are foreigners.
One bank i went into - the whole IT department are predominantly foreigners - hardly see locals. Incidentally, there is one local staff in the manufacturing - who help the Government draft the Tripatite Fair Employment Alliance.
He say he was alarmed by the situation where locals are kicked out systematically and replaced with foreigners.So you think the commercial by Tripatite Fair Employment Alliance that air a foreigner presenting the ideas developed by a mature local PMETs --- a joke?
It is happening pervasively on the ground - and the Government does not seems to have an effective response to help Singaporean PMETs.
What is the current workforce helm by foreigners? I think exceeded a million.
ricky l
0users liked this commentThumbs UpThumbs Down0users disliked this commentRicky L • a second agoRemove
And i can assure you that it is not the local that lack skills compare to the foreigners. In fact local has higher skillsets and more familiar with the local culture.
It is something else that the companies is not telling.
Ricky L • Remove
US has a place for citizens to file as unemployed - so that they can be tracked and offer with jobless claim - and there is incentive to get them employed and not given jobless claim.
In Singapore, anyone know where can an unemployed register themselves as jobless - so that the jobless can be tracked and probably do job match for them to help them to get employed?
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