Allow blue-collar jobs to be taken by FWs
Foreign workers There are blue-collar jobs such as cleaners, construction workers and renovation workers which most Singaporeans wouldn't want to do ("Paying the price of closing S'pore's gates"; Feb 8). Restricting the number of foreign workers for these jobs will not improve productivity. Many renovation projects are unable...
WP taking easy path of playing ‘blame game’
The fracas over the Workers' Party's (WP) problematic accounting of town council funds highlights Singapore's uneasy transition to greater political diversity ("WP told it must act to recover public funds"; last Saturday). Opposition supporters regard the WP's increased presence in Parliament as a sign of greater democracy,...
PMET turned cabby considers living in cheaper M’sia/Batam
After my retrenchment from my PME $7K salary post at age 46, life has truly been going downhill all the way. Like many other unemployed graduates, I ended up driving taxi to survive since nobody wants to employ Singaporeans, even when my asking salary was $1.5K. In SG, us older sinkies are avoided like the plague by all employers...
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