Resident labor 2020 Estm 2,345,000. The government has finally released the foreign workforce numbers for last year 2019. It shows that total foreign workforce in Singapore at the end of last year was 1,427,500. In particular, the number of foreign professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMET) has slowly crept up. At the end of last year, the number of foreign PMETs (Employment Pass and S Pass holders) hit almost 400K at 393,700. This was the largest increase at 3.3% since the last general election in 2015.

Justice over economy progress! We would rather have most people to be averagely wealthy or even slightly poor, rather than having a huge inequality gap among Singaporeans. So far we have seen tones of people from M'sia, PRC and CECA entering sg with fake educational certs to compete with locals , it is not Fair! They simply bought their certs then all of sudden able to earn the same or even higher amount of salaries than locals, that is totally unacceptable.

Mr Ong please answer the questions raised by PSP?!!

Focus on CECA. Dun repeat information and success stories by the local. Whom made the 2nd phase of struggle in Covid-19 under control and whom made the development of businesses in Singapore sucessful, is local skilled labor. No others nationalities. We the parents fought and work hard for our next generations and not for others to take advantage of our investment. We the parents is the biggest investor to the only nature resources on this red-dot.

@mdshamsulhaque8056

3 жыл бұрын

Love you

@gracelim2336

3 жыл бұрын

Right. Singaporeans don't Support Singaporeans First = No Singaporeans.

I don't know man. I want to sleep when LMW talk , back and forth on same thing without answering the questions and zero points. And he seems talking with sweets on his mouth. Sigh

@johnsonaung1144

3 жыл бұрын

You think you can perform better than him ? if not just let him do the job that he suppose to do best

Our locals are already at huge disadvantage compared to most other asian countries as our degree holder percentage per cohort has been much lower than those countries( averagely speaking only about 1 in 5 enters NUS, NTU and SMU), whereas in countries like M'sia, PRC, Taiwan, Korea, over 70% of their cohorts from each primary school eventually enter government universities, it is already unfair for us to be getting the same salaries as these imported FTs, not to mention that a large portion of them are actually holding on to fake college certs bought from their hometowns. We are now seeking justice that first. Foreign college graduates shouldn't be getting same or higher pays if they work in the same industries as local graduates. Second, we need thorough verification process set up by third parties to check on their foreign eduction certs, if anything goes wrong, not only that these working PRs and residents should be immediately expelled from our countries, their employers should be punished heavily as well considering many of them are actually helping to cover up the cases secretly. If these betrayers are not being severely dealt with who are we going to trust? there would be no more "Singaporean Pride" or identity.

@komalolo3138

Жыл бұрын

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Admit it, Wrong Policy..."stop at 2", "education on the right subject". "CECA". What is with the word "meaningful". ?

There is no necessarities for in-flood of any $3600-$4500 talents, we have alot of local on the ground. 130K- and avg 480K livelihood at stake.

We have annually new local 40000 trained / educated cohort which need to go into the job market, yes?

Do you know that you need to score straight AAA for your GCE A levels results in order to enrol into a local University Computer/IT degree? Why set the bar so high for our local kids until they cannot get in and we have to rely on FTs from India, in which their degrees are not even close to our NUS/NTU in global ranking? The govt should open the door wider for these degree courses for our local kids and route some of the Engineering and Social Sciences cohort into the Computer and IT-related courses. After all, isn't there a lack of IT talents and these are the best paying jobs that we should groom our local to take over.

@dongjing7283

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. We should have more universities with low ranking, so the students who are interesting in IT can have a chance to get the degree. Actually if you have a good grade for Math, you are qualified to study on IT. I am ok that AAA GCE A level is required for these 3 famous universities, but in real world, the IT guys just need a good logic and no need to be so good at other subjects. In other words, I saw many IT guys from these 3 universities don't have solid experience on IT knowledge. It's because they like to do management job rather than technical job. It means we need a lot of FT to fill the vacancy. If we have some more universities with low ranking, it will provide many local talent to fill the vacancy instead of FT.

@yktian2376

2 жыл бұрын

The entrance requirement is not arbitrarily set by the University or any government agency. Instead, the bar is set by comparing the number of planned intake against the number of applicants. For example, if NUS decides to offer 100 admissions for its IT course and there are 400 applicants, NUS will rank all the applicants by scores and set the bar around the 100th applicant's score, which is understandably straight As as many high-performing students wish to pursue a course in IT. There are also other less popular courses in local university that only require as low as BBBC for entrance. In other words, it works pretty much like the invisible hand of demand and supply. You are right to suggest creating additional educational institutions (hence increasing the supply) but it's utterly wrong to blame "someone" setting the bar too high.

@AT-jo4fy

2 жыл бұрын

@@yktian2376 I know. But no one is stopping the university to open more places for the local kids

labor force is no relevant to birth rate. A person can start to work only after living for at least 18 years and with good job position education. The inflood is instant and it impact the graduating cohoct and the current local labor force. Prof Hoon !!!! guess you have never work in the fields - but just theoritical.

Mr Ong dun bundled CECA under FTAs and force a meaningful debate topics.

@jaredho1157

2 жыл бұрын

Eh joker. Ceca is a FTA. Cuckoo

Please name the MNCs which had come into Singapore and the no. of local PMET's hired ? What happen when creation is lower than disruption. MNC created in Singapore for X years and move back to HQ and retrenct all local employees. This type of job let the MNC enjoy the taxpayers paid infrastructure and than provide disruptive career for locals. And they dun care.

@kinglyhammersmith3923

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. My company has only promoted director or leadership only Indian citizens. None local citizens take leadership. In fact, the leaders are suck in their management skills and local staff can do better than them.

The point of having a parliament debate is to discuss and come to common ground on the best policies to bring Singapore forward as one. Instead, Mr Leong keeps harping on the past and provide falsehoods, he needs to be factual and provide solutions to bring it forward. What’s the point of looking backward? How did MR Leong even got voted in? Oh god..

@gracelim2336

3 жыл бұрын

PSP Leong is Risking his life to fight for Singaporeans' Rights. It will be fatal for PAP and Singapore if Ministers are fighting for their Selfishness

MR LEONG YOU ARE DOING AN AWESOME JOB YOU ARE ASKING RELEVANT QUESTIONS WHY IS HE BEING BOMBARDED +LAUGHED AT??? AT THE END OF THE DAY SINGAPORE IS FOR SINGAPOREANS SINGAPORE MALE CITIZENS SACRIFICED 2 YEARS OF THEIR LIFE TO ENLIST IN NS WE PAY TAXES WE VOTE FOR YOU DURING GE

How about solving the Trade problem between our consumer and the Hawkers and Big and small F&B. Eg. Apply FTA and offer Free Rental of space for 12 months. So local still can operate and survive during this Covid-19 period. Buying and selling Food is a form of Trade. Also sustain Electrical Tarrif - so as to sustain the business operations and hence sustain the jobs. Also solve the long lasting "cost of living" issues in Singapore for the median and low earning population.

Govt needs to conduct survey with singaporeans in MNC especially those in middle level class. What is they feel in their company environment. Do positive evaluations and come out plan to block bad foreign leaders to out from Singapore.

@khtay8731

3 жыл бұрын

I am confused? Are the Investor MNC employees paying the MNC or MNCs employing the Singaporean PMETs. Easier to criticise but policymakers need time to gradually whittle the bad employer MNCs. If too tight, foreign investment goes elsewhere which will be Covid19 everyday, no business no tourists.

I love the comical coffee shop fella

Have you answered the questions ?

Precisely is no to reach a certain numbers. But the essential skill sets which cannot be found. 1 local PMET out of work in Singapore - on avg 4-6 locals life are impacted.

who start the "Stop at 2" Program?

@gracelim2336

3 жыл бұрын

China more stupid. Stop at One.

@beejoooh5216

3 жыл бұрын

@@gracelim2336 china had billion population. Singapore had only about 1.2Million - when we call for "Stop at 2" program.

1 Local PMET job feed a family of 4-6 - with the aging population. It is easy to cut and paste and give answer base on question. It is not easy to find a good job after retrentment. I personally had been thru various cycle managing in-flood of Chinese FT and Indian FT. Public Services don't used these folks. So you don't understand the frustration when you cannot govern and common due to LANG barrier, cultural barrier...etc.. Learning from them and productivities are out of the questions - due to barriers and their upbringing.

"远水救不了近火", no more watch and see.

I don't understand why Mr Leong was interrupted. What's wrong with raising a question on low competitiveness in Singaporeans? Competitiveness is a driving factor that makes people work very hard, fosters personal development. Since such people are unwilling to be left out of competition, they have that inner drive to study more, work harder, and always improve on what they know or what they have. The top-paying jobs are highly competitive.

No NS can become Sgreans. Grab Foodpanda NS for sgreans.

@samumobile5744

3 жыл бұрын

Preciselly im going to ns next month now as a grab foodpanda its unfare to look down on pure singaporean like me

@samumobile5744

3 жыл бұрын

We already have many foreigners in our blk were to put them

@onnaligandhi2006

3 жыл бұрын

@@samumobile5744 if you feel uncomfortable pls migrate

Mr Ong, just let the public know the number of them in Singapore. For example, Changi Business Park aka Chennai Business Park.

@jaredho1157

2 жыл бұрын

Thats the only place you know of right? Cuckoo

What is fair? The local olders generation had invested on the land and their childrens and grandchildren still cannot live a decent life.

@thecustomadventures7719

3 жыл бұрын

Okay you analysed this whole situation good for you. However it’s more easily said than done. It’s difficult to maintain a balance between foreigners and locals. There are many jobs which foreigners take which locals do not want. It’s not so easy to just say there is too much foreigners. If there are no foreigners, economy will not grow. Regardless of how many local jobs are available it will not work.

@beejoooh5216

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecustomadventures7719 Don't Quit. Unless you have try and fail. But, still try again. We don't have natural resources for 50 years that what we heard. But we have 2.4M skilled people resources and how works to be allocated. What's so difficult. ??

@brmin7312

3 жыл бұрын

@@beejoooh5216 Me me me and me

If MOM - under JosTeo, union and Tripartite Parties had been doing the relevant duties. Why all these situations had happen and resulted in a necessary debates. Not to late to rectify with relevant processes. But should ask someone "to resign" for sleeping on the job.

@gandi, please make your statement clear. Do not comment if you dont have the proof. Also wh

It is Indian culture to favour their own countrymen

Maybe they need more as more Chinese woman are looking for India man as husband or boyfriend,?? It's good for racial harmony...💏💏....

Finally you had told the truth 🙌 👏 😌 🙏 ☺ 👌 Not you but ceca What we had is illustration and it illusions illustrator. It done by someone else.

@komalolo3138

Жыл бұрын

Imfrom labuan komal

Guys, who are the Singaporean NON-core? And, should we also have a more level playing field during general elections so that foreigners can compete for seats in Parliament to represent their interests? Oh, I forgot, some may have already become Singaporean "core". :) #BirthRights

@gandi, why you bother who are you to say SG is a migrant country. Speak with some substance

In QCC : Brainstorming, every question is meaningful and not stupid. That why a debate is needed.

I don’t get what Mr Leong is saying? Back and forth and he doesn’t have a point.. he’s making me sleep with his speech

@avenuefive8593

3 жыл бұрын

He's saying and asking why Ceca are allowing so many Indian professionals into Singapore and what are the agreements. MIW answered and talk about FTAs and racism. No wonder you are confused 😐

@Autonomous4kpsf

3 жыл бұрын

He is contradicting what he reads from his script. Doesn't add value to the whole point of notion..Patrick Tay touches straight to the point n the heart of the people.

@avenuefive8593

3 жыл бұрын

Why Ceca received so much criticism and the need to have this debate? Straight to the point? MP Patrick Tay seems more interested in telling us the benefits of FTA and his years of work lobbying for a stronger Singaporean core.

@Autonomous4kpsf

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the clarification I am referring to Mr Ong. Couldn't differentiate CECA n FTA

Next generation will have no singaprean but all foreigner minister, lol.

PSP is like an armchair quarterback - why did u not do this? If u need to change yr strategy last week then your whole game plan must have been wrong to begin with. It is like an armchair spectator telling a professional team how they should have played last week's football game! Globalization and the disruptive effects of the 4th Industrial Revolution are trends that cannot be change - we can only adapt to it and try to be ahead of others. So far we have not heard from PSP as to what their alternatives are. If only 500 out of 4 ,200 ICTs are Indian nationals then their argument holds no water. It was good that Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa had a chance to ask questions in parliament last week but I wish they would be more coherent and organized the next time - if they want Singaporeans to be able to follow their arguments.

@khtay8731

3 жыл бұрын

Because LMW target audience is the emotions of affected Singaporeans. As if foreign investors and MNCs invest in Singapore because of corporate social concerns. FYI foreign investments into LITTLE Singapore is Ranked top 5 in the world!!

America got. Talents Britain got. Talents Singapore no talent

Heng Swee Kiat kind of own goal. Getting too emotional and defensive. Every point he makes is “I DID THIS I DID THAT...PLEASE DO NOT...” Pritam Singh is the most on point and nicely done.

CIM chinese-China indian-India malay- Malaysia , european-Europe indonesian-Indonesia Not true singaporean-Singapore.problem is it want to be world number one.it wanted to be largest ???? Hub... Huge difference said it all..... Sorry to said that,We are SMEs..... Housing banking financing transportation Industrialisation....we can,'t afford......they are rich because they are minister,they need big car big house...BT bukit timah is highestor tallest mountain...Bussiness Time to sell Go GSS 90% sales Singapore.,too much too many out there Orchard road

Almost all ICT Work can be done online - via network. Why the need to flood in $3600 EP employees. What kind of skills these people have that a highly educated cohort cannot fill.

Make sure trilionier me pls, I'm American Canadian London Saudi Arabia trillion dollar rich need