Tag Archives: foreigners

There is a toilet nearby, why do these foreigners allow their child to take a **** in the middle of the MRT (this is busy Chinatown MRT by the way)!

Why bother to learn new skills when jobs eventually go to foreigners? How does the Government ensure a "fine balance in deciding" how many Singaporean job seekers are not left behind?

After all, what’s the point of focusing on a smart nation – when in the two years from 2015 to 2016 – it is estimated that almost none of the 11,400 jobs growth (37,300 foreigners’ jobs growth) went to locals – actually went to Singapore born true-blue Singaporeans (61,005 new PRs and 42,917 new citizens granted in the same two-year period).

It states that “It found that employee engagement here has declined consistently over the past three years, in stark contrast to the upward trend observed across the globe.

The labour statistics do not seem to gel well with the rhetoric? I refer to the article “Wages, jobs, productivity up but more work lies ahead: PM” (Sunday Times, Aug 13).

PRC Chinese firms are squeezing out local developers by infusing huge amounts of funds into an already overheated market, which in turn eats into the pockets of everyday Singaporeans who are now barely able to afford a home.

A netizen airs his frustration about the government's import of foreigners not just for menial jobs but for professional jobs that Singaporeans themselves want to do. He came across local ITE students who cannot find jobs and have to work as car washers. It seems like Singaporeans are now relegated to the lower end of the employment spectrum?

I was tagged by Yeoh Lam Keong to a facebook photo which quoted Lee Kuan Yew in 2010- “In five years, you will have 120,000 work-permit holders .. in 10 years, a quarter million. Is it bearable?

A netizen who took the MRT train from Pasir Ris bound for City Hall was left perplexed and disappointed today when she heard the names of Simei and Tanah Merah station being mixed up in the train's in-cabin announcements.

Singapore should stop its liberal foreign labour policies which have caused rising unemployment and under-employment amongst Singaporeans.