Since I landed in Sydney about five days ago via a Scoot flight, I have been bombarded with emails asking me about migration to down under.
Some friends have even checked with me personally days before my flight and I dare say I can even start a thriving migration business here!
Most who enquire on migration also cites that they prefer the work life balance here than back home in money-crazy Singapore…for them its just too shallow to always work and think about making more money for the rest of their life.
Some are even satisfied to work in a factory here than being a work-crazy executive back home!
There are just too many enquiries to answer personally so I decided to pen a short article on the migration situation here.
However, I am no migration expert so I must add a caveat here that if you need expert opinion, you should speak to the Australian embassy in Singapore or a professional migrant agent.
I must also state for the record that its now easier to marry an Aussie citizen and apply for PR status as a spouse applicant than go by the long and winding route of applying for the coveted difficult-to-get 457 skilled work visa or PR status.
I have met up with a Singaporean friend here last year during my bi-annual trip and he has decided to marry a Malaysia-born Australian citizen whom he knew for a few years on and off.
Long sick of the system back home and enjoying every moment of his stay in Sydney, I do not blame him for his decision.
“What can I do in Singapore?” he asked when we sipped free hot coffee last year at Rhodes Ikea.
It was one of our many long chats we had together as he was on a visitor visa still and thus could not work.
Before his venture in Sydney, he has worked in our NLB library for four years earning a paltry $4 an hour despite having a engineering diploma.
He applied for many jobs but not many employers have called him up for an interview and even if they did it was always negative.
He is only 36 years old but look younger than his age though on the chubby side.
“I don’t have many options back home, Gilbert,” he told me in dismal resignation. “Migration is one of the best way for me to start something afresh for myself.”
His estrangled distant relationship with his family is also one major push factor for him to venture abroad – with both eyes open as he knows that getting a job will be difficult for foreigners.
Many Singaporeans have return home after experiencing prolonged unemployment for a long time or staying under employed indefinitely as most senior positions will go to the local Aussies no matter how experienced or capable you are.
Those who long to migrate must be clear in their mind that their career will have to take a back seat as most local companies will only place their own people in senior management positions – however good the foreign executives can be.
But is marrying someone the best way to do this? I asked my friend.
“Well, if we love each other – what is stopping us from pursuing our dream?” His dream is to emigrate to Sydney whereas his girlfriend probably wants to get a husband.
I figure that my Singaporean friend is counting his blessing now after marrying his Aussie Chinese bride as if not he will still be slaving away in our icy cold library earning a miserable $4 an hour stacking up books.
He figures that if he stays behind in Singapore, he can’t even buy a BTO HDB flat or marry a local girl as his salary is just too low even for himself to survive let alone starts a family of his own.
However, I always feel that emigration is not for everyone. I have heard of some friends who returned to Singapore after staying abroad for a while.
The ultra slow-pace lifestyle, racism and loneliness are but some of the factors that deter many Singaporeans from hanging on in a foreign land. You often don’t feel belonged as this is not your country and feelings of being second-class citizens are too common.
The Aussie government has also recently clamped down on foreign talents and work visa for this year alone has a quota of less than 80, 000. They used to be in the mid 100, 000 range but due to severe voters’ protest at the polls, the number has been dwindling steadily since.
This figure also includes those who come in as refugees using either the Sri Lanka sea-vessel way or simply fly in as a tourist and apply for refugee status through the embassy.
Unfortunately, Singapore does not consititutes as a war-torn refugee country yet.
Sydney
Unless you are already staying here and studying, chances are the elusive visa will slip you by.
Graduates of local Aussie universities also have a one-year window period to look for jobs immediately after graduation but I heard its really tough as fresh graduates are inexperienced and thus not in demand.
Some fresh foreign graduates I heard have even touted themselves as non-salaried interns in the bid to try and get into the companies here to chalk up valuable work experience.
But, more importantly, they hope that the companies will apply for them the 457 skilled visa which will usually last for four years – they can then later apply for PR after working for a minimum of two years here.
In Australia, companies have to provide proof that they have advertised and interviewed a reasonable number of local Aussies before they can apply for foreign talent to come in and work so the skilled 457 work visa is really tough to get even if employers want to apply for you in the first place.
It is so different from our system of mass work permit application for foreign workers to come in by the thousands without any proper check and control system. This system needs to be tweaked so that we only bring in foreigners who have skills that we do not possess.
Currently, our foreign talents perform tasks that local Singaporeans can do e.g. receptionists, human resource managers, tele-marketing executives among others. They are competing with us for jobs and not really providing skill sets that we do not have.
I don’t see the point of bringing in MNCs who continue to hire predominantly foreign workers – they probably only fatten their own corporate accounts and local Singaporeans don’t benefit at all from their business relocation .
Back to the Aussie visa application, I have heard of some fortunate Singaporeans getting the coveted 457 skilled work visa when they apply for it back in Singapore – especially if they are in niche skills such as engineering, medical and nursing.
A friend whose PRC wife is a nurse managed to get a work visa within 2 months and her PR within 6 months upon arrival. Her husband is however less fortunate and has to make do with a factory job despite being a graduate and doing relatively well in Singapore prior to his departure to down under.
His nursing wife’s pay fortunately doubled once she signed on the contract and she is now enjoying a better lifestyle compared to back home when she is slaving away in our public hospitals.
For those who are younger and serious about working in Australia long-term, the best option is to get a nursing diploma or degree, work in our local system for 2-3 years and then apply through a employment agent who will do all the necessary paper work for you.
Australia is in serious shortage of experienced nursing and medical staff so if you are keen on working abroad, this is the best option available for you.
Another viable option is to look for work in the mines in Western Australia.
Again, the relevant skill sets and qualification apply - how many Singaporeans have this niche mining work experience and engineering qualification?
A fresh geological engineer can expect to start at A$100,000 per annum before tax but the work condition is harsh.
Mine engineers are expected to work and stay in the mining quarters and they work on a 2-week shift system to facilitate efficient work flow.
Australia probably has one of the best work life balance system in the world. People hardly over work here compared to slavery-like Singapore whereby employers treat their workers like digits.
Workers are protected by their respective unions and there is an efficient independent Ombudsman to look into the interests of workers if there is a work dispute.
Shops all close by 6 pm except for Thursday – the only day that they stay open till 9 pm.
Most stall assistants here are also local Aussies as they are all paid a minimum wage for survival reason - debunking the myth back in Singapore that our own local people do not like to become retail assistant.
I always believe that if you pay the right wages people will work at whatever jobs you throw at them.
Most contruction workers, bus drivers, cleaners, retail assistants – jobs that are normally perform by foreign workers back home – are carried out by local Aussies here.
If Australia can why can’t we?
Written by: Gilbert Goh
So true, its good to take up a cert III in healthcare here to get a job. Would agree 99% with Gilbert’s spot on assessment on the above topic. Its very hard to get a good job here, you be more educated and experienced but you are not a first class citizen. Just an update, that for registered nurses which have only a dipolma are no longer able to gain entry and the OET has been ceased. You would now need a degree in nursing and IELTS band overall 8 in the general paper to gain entry. (Fairly simple for Singaporeans with practice via British Council etc)
Alot of companies are also retrenching staff here in Melbourne thus would expect a recession next year.
Original Australians are British convicts which Britain
Dumped in the 1700 to 1800s.
The White Australian policy existed till 1975. White policy
Means Australia does not generally allow non white
To migrate to Australia.
So their forefathers built Australia as our forefathers
Built Singapore for us.
If we just continue to let our ruling govt destroy
Us by mass migration to Singapore, we would
Lose Singapore.
Australia protects white Australians, not recent
Migrants.
Our sg govt may have an agenda to replace us
With new citizens.
So why is it that Sg have voted them in albeit 60%
The govt cares for its own survival, not about what
Your forefathers have risked their lives coming to
Singapore and suffer for your sake.
Singapore belongs to us, why are we running away
From our own country? Because we cannot survive,
And we have to run away for our future family.
With our lifetime ? Is crazy !
I camnot imagine attracting foreign companies and 1 in 10
Employee is a Sg ,
Where in the world you have almost 40% foreigners in
Their country, worse for a small country of 3 million
Singaporeans, even this is make up of 20% born
Overseas and new citizens.
So our forefather 150 years of hardship and
Our rights are taken over by foreigners.
Those Sg will not know what’s happening until
They lose their jobs, try voting the ruling party
Again in 2016, I dare you!
Signed
Presently not in Sg or Aust.
This is so true that we are losing Singapore as an identity. I really share the same feelings as Gilbert what is currently happening in our country. I just returned home after being based abroad for 5 years. I am a degree holder and in my early 30s and I have difficulty finding a job here. I am not sure if there is something wrong with me. Most of the jobs here are either very technical / or for fresh graduates. I been back for almost 10 months and I am sure I will abandon my country if other countries are giving me an opportunity for work. Finding a work is not really what you have. I have a lot of foreign friends here and they found their work through connections of their boyfriends and husbands- Work in same company but different departments.
Is the government really doing nothing about the unemployed? What can we do as a Singapore Citizens?
I hope Singapore people will connect more to each other, uograde our skills, speak good english, be more service oriented and be professional at our workplace.
I have heard of the original Australians are British convicts which Britain dumped in the 1700 to 1800s story. I only believe part of the story but not the whole story.
I feel that the original Australians should be the aboriginal Australians.
What is there to believe, type “history of Australia”
In wikipedia, unless u want to go n do a PhD thesis
Of course is the same old story of europeans colonising
USA, Australia, Africa, SE Asia, HK, Macau when China
Lost the opium war to europeans,
Of course, with guns u can conquer another
Country before when peoPle are not that civilised
The British did not conquer but bought Singapore
From the sultan of Johor n did not conquer the
Aboriginal malays living in Singapore,
In fact there were chinese living in Singapore
Before 1819
My ancestors were already living in Singapore
So why is the govt trying to give away what my
Ancestors have founded Singapore to foreigners
Who are working simple jobs in Singapore and
Insulting us and say that they build Singapore,
They fucking build shit, the MRT built in 198+and Changi airport
Was already there when I returned from UK in 1983
How the fuck do u think Sg ppl feel,
We are not acting in a US ganster movie. Do away with the Fxxx word will be nice.
I hear the word fxxk all the time when I am in Singapore,
I hear it from all the ang moh professionals working in all
The high level jobs
I meet them everyday and they use the fxxk word all the time
I meet australian indians coming to work in singapore and he
Uses the word 10 times in a 15 word sentence.
I hear the word fxxk in Australia everywhere i go in Australia.
We should be use to the word, I use the word when I was
Living in a kampong in the 1960+ when i was in primary schOol.
Those sg who are not use to that word fxxk , please dont
Migrate to Aust, or USA, UK for that matter
And stay away from the anf moh in Singapore
Asian immigrants also face the same bleak employment situation in racist canada.
Have any reports of western world immigrants or expats facing same bleak employment situation in racist asian countries?
For me, i do encounter a lot discrimination issues in PRC even though i am a chinese. I also encounter a few discrimination issues in S’pore when working with some foreigners/PR – M’sian, PRC, Taiwanese, Amercians.
Many people are quick to jump on the Aussie bandwagon and find it a good idea to do so. However, there are MANY factors to consider, such as culture and regulation. I study and live in Melbourne, and I actually like it after I’ve gotten use to the city and lifestyle it offers. However, I’m hesitant to work there on graduating because, yes, there is an inherent form of subtle discrimination towards Asian immigrants, especially those ‘fresh off the boat’ and cannot speak similar to the locals. Further, add in the stringent labour laws, it become very tough for a foreign graduate of the local university to attain a respectable, well-paying job in Australia. I know many Malaysian graduates who have tried to do this, and only a handful actually get in. Being a citizen or a PR matters a lot, more so for the case of fresh graduates.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Melbourne, and I’m slowly feeling like I’m a part of this wonderful county. However, do keep those points in mind, if ever any naive unread Singaporeans want to make the jump. It isn’t all hunky-dory; don’t be quick to assume that the Australians will immediately welcome you with open arms.
Also, please note that DICA has tightened the conditions for skilled migration applications. From July 1st 2012, you can no longer apply directly for PR under the skilled category. You need to first send in an Expression of Interest which goes into a pool. DICA will then select from that pool those they deem desirable to invite into the country as PRs. Your EOI will stay in the pool for two years. If you do not get an invitation to apply for PR after that time, it gets removed from the pool.
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Hi gilbert, how are you!! Thank for posting my plight on the article! for your information, there are some errors like:
1) worked for NLB for 4yrs..infact i have worked there for 5yrs 4 months.
2) Pay SGD4 per hr. Is actually only SGD$6 per hr.
3) Mine is not engineering diploma, is Chemical Process Technology diploma, which specialise in Polymer and Chemical. But too bad la..many manufacturing factories have gone to China…
I remembered the last interview i went in 2009 was a position of procurement officer in one of the stat board, and they only offer 1 yr contract and is only $1300 (before CPF deduction)!..that all..
I did negotiate with the HR and guess wht they told me. “Take it or leave it”!!
And until they also advertise the same position again and again and i guess hardly anyone take up the offer.
Anyway, back to the issue here for migration. Yes you are right, is NEVER easy at all, settling down in Sydney and finding a job and still, the employers prefer their own citizen first! Is matter of whether you could accept it not. So better think twice before setting the foot here..you got to know and see alot before you made the decision.
Lastly, i am now worry if what will happen to me one day, IF my relation with my Malaysian-Aussie wife didnt able to work out. “Will i returning to sg where i don’t have anythings at all to lay back for?”…Or i just stuck in between, not there or here…Or just end my life..
Still, nice and pleasure knowing you My dear Singaporean friend!
Owen ANG CH
I agree with marc. Don’t assume that the Aussie will welcome you with open arms. And definitely you will not get the same kind of Support like Singapore government to the foreigner. PAP is a Pro Alien Party, but the aussie politic party are different from PAP. So do not expect red carpet treatment from the government or the people here.
I figure that my Singaporean friend is counting his blessing now after marrying his Aussie Chinese bride as if not he will still be slaving away in our icy cold library earning a miserable $4 an hour stacking up books.
Gilbert, i don’t mind working in the library as it is a very nice environment to work. BUT the fuck is, Please pay a DECENT salary for the job. AS we are the “first” world nation ok! Not just a slave to be…
So what’s with whinging above? are Singaporeans really that soft and spoilt that they start to whinge when they are faced with just a little bit of hardship? i see vietnamese people who had arrived as boat refugees to australia 30 years ago now have succeeded as professors, professionals or restaurant owners. My friends from africa came here with the family and 3 of them have achieved PhDs here in Australia. That goes to the PRCs, malaysians and other races who had braced the difficulties and established themselves here successfully in careers and businesses. Come on, fellas, dont be that soft!
Hi Owen,
Count it as a blessing to you ok. Me still no girl want me yet leh. Lol… After marrying your Aussie Malaysia Born Chinese Bride, you can still apply and continue to work in the icy cold library in Sydney. Lol…
What is whinge?
And what is whiny?
I migrated to Aust in early 1990s and even though
I graduated from UK and Australia, I faced inherent
Obstacles. Sg have the choice not to tolerate discrimination
And leave the country.
Refugees from
War torn countries do not have a choice and the
discrimination are also from other so called Europeans
Like ppl from the old Yugoslavia and other migrants
and they think are higher class than Asians.
Not to discourage Sg ppl wanting to migrate to Australia,
But I personally think Europe offers a better future for
Your children.
Yes, Sg ppl like to jump on the bandwagon at the last minute,
That is why they cannot understand what happen to Sg now,
Not that I sm asking you to give up Sg cirizenship.
If you want to consider your optiOns in Europe,
Skype me at (swechua) but state who you are and
What is it for. Othewise I may think is my other network
Of people.
Then only Will I accept your invitation and
video chat with you, this is to root out scams, otherwise
Any scams can be texting and wasting my time.
I am with my family in UK and I am doing a postgrad
Study here as a steppIng stone.
If you are new to Europe, it does not mean you cannot
Make it , but those who are more likely to make
It are they who have studied in Europe, not to
Say if you never lived overseas, you will not make it,
But you may experience a lot of things which you are
Unfamiliar, your character will decide if you can succeed!
So hope to hear from you.
@john168:
We are NOT SOFT definitely ok! But i am stressed the point is that in SG, we are unable to change the system for the better of our ordinary guys’ life and livelihood! So you think everyone wants to leave IF our home is good and comfortable?
@Singaporeanaboard:
I guess you are LEO in Melbourne, stop being sarcastic and talk with sense.
Owen
Ignore what people say, just believe in yourself. You don’t need advice from losers like Leo and friends etc.
Singapore probably has one of the worst work life balance system in the world. People always over work here compared to other developed countries.
Today i just for a interview with SMRT jobfair over at Sengkang CC. The interviewer told me the working days will be work 7 days then rest 2 days, work 7 days then rest 2 days & work 7 days then rest 3 days in a month.
Bcoz S’pore doesn’t have minimum wage policy so exploitation of cheap labour is commonly seen here. When i was working as warehouse assistant at National Oil Varco, the indian FW sent by the job agency was only paid $18 for a 12 hour/day job. When the payday came, the job agency mgr or boss also paid them the wages. The indian FW were told wait for the mgr or boss to come back 2 week later as he went oversea. Everyday one of the indian FW will come borrow money to buy food.
This is the most intelligent comments section I have read on this site. Everybody deserves the right to make a better world for themselves anywhere in the world they choose. I actually scan CV’s for living & working abroad experience before even looking at qualifications & length of tenure in jobs…i have infinite respect for any man or woman who can make it abroad because it it not an easy path anywhere in the world. Regarding foreigners being welcome in any developed land there is one universal truth…O N L Y the lower class of any society does not welcome foreigners. Lower class Australians don’t want foreigners living in Australia same as lower class Singaporeans don’t like foreigners living in Singapore…best strategy is to ignore them and focus on what is important to yourself and your family.
Your angmoe country politicians are of lower
Class as no country in the world adopts Singapore
Free immigration policy of foreigners to work
In Sg without criminal record check in their country
Or check for false qualifications
Sg PMETs who are the ones qualified to migrate
Because of the destruction of Sg culture are of
Lower class in your opinion.
There is no level playing field and every Sg except
The small class of elite in Sg losing their
Survival to foreigners.
If there is freedom of speech n democracy in Sg
As in western countries or in middle east, we would
See another “Arab Spring” a long time ago
You are expecting me to believe you that you
Agree that your country should adopt the open
Immigration policy like what the ruling party does
To Sg
I dont see how the lower class Sg people are
Able to get overseas experience to get employed
By you.
Why dont you go back to your country m help
Your country change your immigration pOlicy
N have a level playing field immigration policy to
All the people in the world to work in our country
To work in your country
Otherwise, give yourself some dignity and take
Up Sg citizenship as your ang moe low class politicians
Are dead wrong to restrict foreigners to your country.
Better after taking up sg citizenship, stand for election
And become a cabinet minister of ruling party at least and
Maybe freedom n democracy may improve
Or will history repeat itself during election
For opposition ,
Oh you know about past elections since 1959?
In S’pore, respective unions are controlled by NTUC. NTUC is controlled by PAP. PAP is controlled by the Lee family & their loyal associates. PAP is very pro-employers & not so pro-employees.
Although, PAP proclaimed S’pore is a developed country & a first class country. But it refused to implement good social benefits policy & minimum wage policy to help the working class & poor. The wages or benefits or so called compensation for the CEOs or directors working in government controlled companies are not cap. It always went up.
Contruction workers, bus drivers, cleaners, retail assistants, car washers, waiters, kitchen helpers, storekeepers, factory operators, therapy assistants, security guards etc are some of the low wage, long working hours, low social status jobs which one can find the recruitment of these jobs in newspapers daily. Among them, cleaners & car washers are said to be the lowest paid workers.
Secretary-General of the NTUC, Lim Swee Say said NTUC will help cleaners who earned less than $1000/mth to earn $1000/mth; help cleaners who earned $1000/mth to earn $1200/mth. If we observe the working condition of the cleaners working in the shopping malls, foodcourts, hawker centres, sweeping the streets, cleaning the trash in housing estates. We will know that it is tough being a cleaner. Is paying monthly wage of $1000 or $1200 enough for the cleaners?
I agree that the salary a cleaner receives could make their lives difficult, the cost of living has risen greatly.
It brings me great relief that Lim Swee Say is working on a solution.
I wonder if Maids in Singapore earning $15 for every 16 hour day (& some don’t even get a weekly day off) will have their plight supported too.
Moving on, and what this article is about, it might prove beneficial for cleaners with no other transferable skills to try out living & working in Australia & see if they can forge a better future for themselves
This angmoe think we Sg who employ maids
Are paying maids low salary？
I know of some Sg couple earns combined $2500 mnthly
Husband n wife combined, but have no choice
But to employ a maid ,
Reasons to go to work,
. Future job may improve
.work overtime
. No work , no food to eat even if i take care of
My child
Etc,etc
Present cost of a maid monthly
1. Govt levy. $200 to $250 (before was higher)
2. Salary $380
3. Food $100 (say) maid share of food
4 room to stay $400 ( opportunity cost )
5. Medical $30
Just the basic, exclude agent fee n initial
Cost of employing maid
Total over $1,000
This angmoe is trying to take us for suckers
Or does not know basic accounting, even if
He dont hv a degree in accounting,
Is strange that he excludes all expenses spent
On maid
Does he not pay govt levy (against the law, mate)n share room with his
Maid n wife ?
And he gives the leftover to his maid to eat?
Does he not give in day off or compensate the
Maid un accordance with the new law? Maybe
He goes out with the maid n pay for the jalan
Jalan at mcritchie reservoir and is free sxxk,
The way i see it, othwerwise , how is the
Cost be $450 a mth , even ang moe families
In Sg pay $600 average for long term maid
and all the other expenses, no hanky Panky
Maybe this angmoe is paying a pinay more
Money or maybe pinay can do it for free
You are only considering direct cost
Of the maid salary
To the households, we take in indirect costs
As your business include operating costs
Please dont not be naive or worse, trying to con
Your angmoe families here to pay more than the
Market price in Sg
In Hong Kong, govt levy was non existence for
Many years, and is a small amt if S$50 now
So they can pay higher salary n Hong Kong
Is richer than singapore
I can be sarcastic and say USA or EUROPE or
CANADA pAy higher or say 300 years ago,
Angmoes if USA , descendents of europeans
get free maid or should i say slave service
Whom they capture from Africa
So please dont be an idiot and compare
A durian with an avocado !
To angmoe,
So you are a professional and that’s how you work
Out the salary of maids,
Does the maid pay the food and accommodation,
Electricity m water n other utilities bills, the levy?
What the cost of employing a maid?
$350 to 450 / mth?
So i thgt you are an employer, do you cover
Your employee food n accommodation n transport
Expenses
The total costs of a maid is $1,000 easily
the room maid is an opportunity cost, can be rented
Out to earn income
I did not employ a maid as it does not work
Out to earn $2000, say to pay out $1,000 and
My expenses on food n transport comes to $500,
Having to spend 12 to 15 hours a day (on work n
Travel time and my brain is still in the job when
I am at home)
Does the angmoe think Sg are that fucking stupid , that
We are idiots,
Oh, I see ang moe pays a maid $1,000 and pays
The levy, food n acccmodation n two days off a week
Wow, that more that what angmoe families pay
Maids in Singapore, about $500 to start
Angmoe think we are fucking suckers and can
Bullshit us to pay maids $1,000
Dont you think you should pay your maid $1,500
With all other expenses covered by you as they work 16 hr
I suggest alll maids leave the country , dont
Bother to use sg as a stepping stone to HK or
CANADA
AND ALL FOREIGNERS LEAVE SG, go to work
In angmoe countries where the salary is higher n
Shorter working hours
Asshole !
Signed off
Living overseas
Ang moe should go and stand for election n
Become the PM of aust n allow retired PMET
Who have became cleaners in sg in time to over
Or worse are unemployed as cleaners are foreigners,
That way, angmoe can tap the skills of retired sg
Sure , your aust whites will accept more asians
Into aust.
If you think u can get their support
I am prepared to kill myself in front of you
In honour of your genuine humanity to mankind
Regardless race, language or religion
(our sg pledge does not say equality to non sg
Citizens which is the same for all countries)
Dont just talk cock , walk the talk, just talk good
To show off you have a good heart
If you cannot do it, dont talk cock !
I challenge u with my life, do it!!! Shit !
Signed off
Living overseas
In Summary, 4 respondant’s had nothing further to say about supporting the cleaners salary increase (which I agree with BTW)but fiercely opposed a maids salary increase – and one respondant even wanted to send them all home.
This thread is about working abroad, seeking opportunity for betterment outside of one’s home country.
Maids are already away from their families doing this & there hasn’t been one scrap of compassion for them, not to mention only 2 people (and I was one of them) applauding support for Singaporean cleaners. What was an informative article is now riddled with comments displaying the sheer selfishness of some of the contributors. My Singaporean family, friends & colleagues are nothing like some of the unsavoury posters here and i see this as a good thing.
Maid’s salary is at market value and it is up
To the individual employer to decide how
Much to Pay.
Yes, salary can be increased but will that affect
Their employment if prospective employers cannot afford.
So statiscally, eg, an increase of $100 will decrease
A certain number of employers or these employers
Borrow more money from the bank, etc
There is a minimum which is due to market forces.
I am sure a good maid will be rewarded with
More benefits , let alone just increase in
salary, i read in the ST before, a maid in Sg
Inherited a condo when her employer passed
On, i am sure she was treated like a family member
In the other hand, I will not hesitate to sack a
Maid who is really outrageous or treat a maid
As a member of the family which should be.
I know some foreigners and maids are ungrateful
And add insult to injury when they were able
To use Singapore as a stepping stone to go
Better places and they will say Singapore and
The past employers are bad !
Good luck to them, esp. Some filipinos, as
I have filipinos relatives n family, I not familiar with other
Races like indonesians, etc, some filipinos
Will stab your back, it is in their culture so
They do it as a culture with nO conscious,
Fortunately some just talk bad behind your back!
Anyway, this article is not about
Maid’s salary !
Nobody is sending all the maids home but
There is a suggestion that if they are not happy,
Go somewhere better to work immediately, maybe
Middle East , etc,
However , the issue is the ruling party ‘s
Policy of mass immigration has caused sg
Citizens to be replaced which is against the
CONSTITUTION of protecting its own citizens.
Maybe killing its own people like in Syria
Is better than dying slowly with no shelter n
Food.
Perhaps, you will say have a Singapore Spring, hahaha
Maybe you have not lived long enough in Sg, say
From 1959 onwards..
BTW, the 4 posts maybe from the same person,
So is this post !
Signed
Sg living overseas but want my forefather’s
Land back for me !
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come with approximately all important infos. I would like to peer extra posts
like this .
sg chinks can’t hack it in australia. for one, you have terrible english diction and pronunciation. you make your intonations sound mandarin. and the aussies would go like “wtf yellow monkey eh bloody hell?”
If you cannot survive in your own country…..theres nothing to lose, go for it >>> downunder. Life is a journey, you never know what you discover?