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  • UK Enacts Tough Anti-Foreign Students Law, Why Not Singapore?

    UK Enacts Tough Anti-Foreign Students Law, Why Not Singapore?

    Hi A.S.S.,

    I read today from The Independent about a new law in the UK which bans foreign students from taking up jobs in the country – in other words these foreigners must go home immediately after they complete their studies in the UK and not use their studies as a backdoor to find employment and UK citizenship.

    Why can’t Singapore do the same? Look at the rate that the Singapore government is giving subsidies to foreign students, all at the expense of more deserving locals! Do you really think some Ah Tiong from China who can barely speak English deserves our tax payers’ money more than our own local born and bred Singaporean children?

    Just go to any famous private university in Singapore and look at the calibre of foreign students at these schools! Well known that many rich local sugar daddies drive their expensive cars just to pick up their PRC “god daughters” for some action after work! Pui!

    Read the full UK article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/foreign-students-will-be-banned-from-working-in-the-uk-and-forced-to-leave-as-soon-as-they-finish-course-under-theresa-mays-tough-new-visa-rules-10385232.html

    Foreign students will be banned from working in the UK while they study and will be forced to leave the country as soon as they finish their course under tough new rules unveiled by Theresa May, the Home Secretary.

    The move, which was confirmed by the Home Office this morning, is designed to crack down on visa fraud in the UK.

    The new rules will only apply to non-EU students, who accounted for 121,000 immigrants last year. Only 51,000 of those foreign students left the UK, leaving a net influx of 70,000 and Mrs May pointed to these figures to defend her efforts for the stricter rules.

    She hopes to stop immigrants using colleges as a “back door to a British visa” and has banned 870 “bogus colleges” from accepting foreign students.

    Ashton
    A.S.S. Contributor

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Foreigner Tells Singaporeans Not To Expect Special Treatment Just Because of Local Status

    Foreigner Tells Singaporeans Not To Expect Special Treatment Just Because of Local Status

    If you’re qualified, employers will hire you. Don’t like low paying jobs?

    But now complaining your government doesn’t protect your rights.

    Yes, I don’t know Singapore much, I visited the country for just 3 days and in a very short period of time I see it’s a very expensive country to work and live in.

    If your country will hire me for a high salary of my demand, I couldn’t care less about your battle cry. If your country wouldn’t hire your young fresh graduates, highly qualified professionals, then why not find a job in other country?

    All you do is whine and complain, why don’t you put yourselves in the test and try finding a job in a foreign land.

    If you’re that confident about your qualifications but your country doesn’t want you to work for them, why continuously cry like a bunch of spoiled brats waiting for their parents to feed them.

    Explore your options if you have the qualifications. Don’t expect your country to give you special treatments just because you’re a local.

    It happens globally, if you’re a local with exceptional talent and very qualified, employers will drool all over you.

    But mediocre qualification and skill, don’t be too picky.

    That’s why other people call you racist, not me, just to be clear. If you truly believe you’re as qualified as the next foreign worker beside you, don’t push them out of your beloved country, compete with them head-on.

    And may the best employee win.

    Posted by: the game

    Editor’s note: this article is retrieved from a comment posted on our site.

     

    Source: www.transitioning.org

  • Singaporean Forced To Leave Company Staffed With 90% Foreigners, Face Legal Action For Breach Of Contract

    Singaporean Forced To Leave Company Staffed With 90% Foreigners, Face Legal Action For Breach Of Contract

    Dear Mr Goh,

    My name is Johnny.

    I’m having a dispute at the moment with my employer regarding my training bond agreement which I have to pay when I breached the contract. Mr Chandra, my neighbour has recommended me to you.

    I recently made the decision to leave because I was forced to.

    It all started when I had a Italian manager from England. He had so many problems with us and the team can’t take it.

    As I was there on my assignment, I reached out to my ops manager and ops executive for advice.

    After hearing me out, they asked me to write a letter and get people who agree to sign and then submit it to the management. In the end, I’m punished for doing that and my ops manager has since return to England.

    90% of my head office are all foreigners.

    They work together as a “team” and are trying to break our rice bowl. I was eventually given an option to leave if I felt that the company is not suitable for me or stay and prove that I can deliver.

    This was delivered to me by my Taiwanese ops manager.

    After considering for a month, I decided to take my leave but I won’t pay a single cent for my bond.

    The level of stress and depression they have given me because of this is not worth it. Till today, they still say that I have to answer to my wrong doing.

    But I was advised wrongly – by a management member – should I be punished for it?

    Now I understand that they want to take legal action against me. I will need to seek legal advice too.

    Please help and advice me.

    Yours sincerely,

    Johnny

    Editor’s note: we have forwarded the mail to our legal advisor. Note also that the middle management jobs all go to foreigners. If you do not want your children to work under foreign imports, you know what to do during the next election.

     

    Source: www.transitioning.org

  • Singapore 19th In List Of Most Expensive Global Cities For Expatriates

    Singapore 19th In List Of Most Expensive Global Cities For Expatriates

    Singapore has jumped 12 places in March 2015 from a year ago to become the 19th most expensive location for expatriates globally in a list of 30 topped by South Sudan capital of Juba.

    The island nation, however, maintained its 9th spot in the Asia Pacific region where Shanghai took the top spot.

    The list by ECA International is part of the bi-annual Cost of Living Survey carried out in March and September using a basket of day-to-day goods and services commonly purchased by assignees in over 440 locations worldwide.

    It attributed Singapore’s leap on the list to “a strong currency”, a release issued on Thursday said.

    “Although, like many currencies, the Singapore dollar has weakened against the US dollar between annual surveys, it strengthened against a number of other major currencies,” said Lee Quane, Asia region director of ECA International. “Assignees having been relocated from one of these locations into Singapore are likely to require a higher cost of living allowance in order to maintain their spending power.”

    The allowance is part of pay packages to ensure that an employee’s spending power is maintained when they are sent on international assignment. It is affected by differences in inflation levels as well as exchange rate movements between an employee’s home and host country.

    Shanghai has become Asia Pacific’s most expensive location for expatriates for the first time. Globally, the Chinese city has moved into the top 10 to 8th position – up from last year’s 18th spot – just ahead of Beijing (9th globally) and Seoul (10th).

    Tokyo ranked two spots above Singapore in the region, as the goods and services in ECA’s shopping basket were just over 2 per cent dearer in the Japanese capital than Singapore as opposed to 14 per cent a year ago. It ranked 16th globally.

    Seoul, the region’s second highest location a year ago has slipped to the third spot.

    Hong Kong is Asia Pacific’s 4th most expensive location for expatriates and is now more expensive than Tokyo. Globally, Hong Kong has entered the top 15 leaping up from last year’s 29th position to 12th place. Prices of items in ECA’s basket rose more than 3 per cent in Hong Kong over the year between surveys. However, it is exchange rate movements that have had the biggest impact on cost of living for expatriates in Hong Kong.

    “With the US dollar, to which the HK dollar is pegged, strengthening against a number of currencies over the past year, (Hong Kong) has become more expensive for many businesses sending assignees there,” said Ms Quane.

    Australian locations continue to fall down the ranking – a reflection of the weakened Australian dollar as growth there slows. Sydney is 30th most expensive location ranked in Asia Pacific and 57th globally.

    The United States cities of Manhattan, New York and Honolulu stood 20th, 29th and 30th in the global ranking.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Reasons Why Foreigners Get Jobs Over Singaporeans

    Reasons Why Foreigners Get Jobs Over Singaporeans

    Another new initiative to help Singaporean workers?

    According to the Channel NewsAsia news report “New portal to prepare students for future jobs” (Apr 7) – “The one-stop portal for education, training and career information, is a key plank of the SkillsFuture initiative that seeks to help Singaporeans take ownership of their job search.”

    What do employers want?

    All these new initiatives to help Singaporeans find jobs and career development may not work because we do not think through what is it that most employers want?

    Employers want …

    • workers who are experienced, highly skilled,  highly educated and intelligent

    When you allow the whole world to come to Singapore as tourists to look for jobs – you don’t need to be a genius to figure out that the odds will continue to be stacked against Singaporeans – when you are competing with the best (or the worse who fake their credentials) in the world

    • workers who cost less

    Foreigners don’t have to contribute CPF. So, employers save up to 20 per cent on wages. And of course, foreigners may be willing to work for lesser pay than Singaporeans

    • workers who do not have turnover problems

    Since most foreigners are on 2-year contracts – they are mostly stuck with the same employer for at least 2 years

    • less work disruption

    Foreigners on work permits cannot get pregnant. So, no “4 months’ maternity leave” problems. Those on employment pass also typically come to Singapore as “singles” and so are less likely to have maternity leave

    Male foreigners do not have National Service reservist training “disruptions” to work

    • workers who can do very long hours of shift work

    Foreigners have no choice and are more willing to accept jobs which are 12 hours or longer a day for 6 days a week

    Make yourself valuable to employers?  

    As to the article “Make yourself valuable, even after getting your degree: Indranee Rajah” (CNA, Apr 7), which said ”The forum focused on whether a degree still matters when it comes to employment, and saw some students sharing their views on pursuing a job that is not relevant to their degree.

    Ms Indranee said having skills to adapt to the changing job market will be important and it is one of the objectives of the Government’s SkillsFuture initiative.

    Odds stacked against Singaporeans?

    She added that the Government is hoping to change mind sets by getting people to find out what they really want to do and to get the relevant qualifications”

    • how do Singaporeans make themselves more valuable to employers, when the odds are so stacked against them in favour of foreigner?

    Real pay increase?

    So, is it any wonder that the real starting pay of graduates has hardly increased in the last 8 years or so, and real basic, gross and total wages (excluding employer CPF contribution) have also hardly increased in the last 15 years or so?

    Employ Singaporeans first?

    Finally, the most telling “wayang” is perhaps that the national jobs portal under the Fair Consideration Framework to employ Singaporeans First, cannot give any statistics at all as to how many of the jobs actually went to Singaporeans!

    Win battles lose war
    * Submitted by TRE reader

    Half the workforce not “true-blue” Singaporeans?

    P.S. I went to a bank, hospital and food basement of a shopping mall one day, and almost every worker was not a Singaporean!

    Source: www.tremeritus.com