Tag Archives: manpower

A netizen who has friends in OKP Holdings, the company responsible for the collapsed highway, revealed that the firm pays OT to its staff to encourage them to work longer hours. Their goal to hire as little manpower as possible backfired as workers were left more tired from their long shifts. Look at what happened.

The man who is called the "architect of modern Singapore" tells CNBC that "Singapore must start planning for a population that could possibly hit 10 million". But did you know that if rates of population increase continued unabated like those before GE 2011, the population in Singapore would hit 18 million by 2050, with the percentage of foreigners going up to 62%?

Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say has said that we will experience a rise in unemployment rate. In his May Day message, he said some sectors are still struggling with structural changes and would need more time to get through this stressful period. Although the unemployment rate for Singaporean workers rose to 3% last year, Mr Lim told people not to worry as he is sure the economy is still growing. He said while there is no shortcut to success, he is convinced that we will emerge stronger from this as long as employers and workers are faster in coping with challenges and adjusting to new environments. Don't say metal rice bowl, got wooden rice bowl must be happy already.

I am writing to bring to your attention, of the misdiagnosis at Outram Polyclinic which caused me to incur unnecessary charges at SGH A&E after being attended to by an extremely apathetic doctor from Malaysia.

Seems like Ong Ye Kung is getting the media limelight lately. He is in the news again today, stating that in order for Singapore to further be successful and to sustain economic growth, we cannot depend on manpower growth, but rather on innovation and productivity. Since he said cannot depend on manpower growth, why still we see many employers hiring foreign talent? Shouldn't the number for foreign talent go downwards, instead of upwards? After all, Minister Ong himself said we cannot depend on manpower growth. Anyways, smart of him to mention that our manpower limitations is also partly due to the need to preserve a sense of identity. Basically saying what Singaporeans want to hear, that foreign talent cannot be growing at large numbers at the expense of the local flavour.

As to “said the scheme’s uptake is encouraging” – does it mean that the scheme’s utilisation was only about 6.3 per cent (126,000 divided by 2 million)? Isn’t this rather low as it represents only about one in 20 eligible Singaporeans?

What is wrong with the Singapore policies? First, we don't have a good policy to create a talent-pool according to the demands and changes in economic commercial and industrial landscape of Singapore! I urge the MOE and MOM collectively put in place the changes required in creating for the next wave of talent-pool of IT professionals, intellectuals etc.

LTA announced today that it is beefing up contingency plans in the event of a major rail disruption. They have approached the SAF to explore the deployment of manpower to give directions to affected commuters during only massive train breakdowns.

Responding to a question from MP Gan Thiam Poh (Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC) in Parliament on Tuesday, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said that foreign labor would be capped at the current one-third of the population in Singapore today. Mr Lim told the House that overall annual foreign workforce growth has moderated from 144,500 in 2007 to 34,000 in 2014. The slowdown, he says, was across all sectors.

Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say had strong words for companies who are always appealing for leniency for foreign worker quotas. He said companies needed to realise that there is no turning back on foreign worker policies. He stated that Singapore can no longer afford to adopt a liberal policy towards taking in foreign labour if Singapore were to continue on this path, soon the local to foreign manpower ratio would be come 1:1.