‘Foreign Vs Local Workers’ Archives
Supervisor at Hans Cafe resigned due to marginalisation by foreign staff
Editor's Note: Some of you have asked if we should boycott Hans Cafe - what do you think? Please pen your comments below so that we have a sense of how you felt about the whole incident. We also want to assure our foreign workers that we are not [...]
Local English professor at overseas university upsets over foreign influx
Dear Gilbert, I write to you here with the intent of talking about an incident, which while seemingly a day-to-day episode, yet raises many questions about the social fabric of our society, and what have basically gone wrong over these last few [...]
Singapore PR Rejected? Appeal or not?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Singapore PR Rejected? Appeal or not? If your Singapore PR (Permanent Residency) is rejected recently, you are not alone. Singapore PR is an important to immigrate to Singapore and rejection is a heart breaking experience [...]
Narrowing racial divide in S’pore due to ‘foreign threat’?
Narrowing racial divide in S’pore due to ‘foreign threat’? By Seah Chiang Nee | SingaporeScene – Mon, Jun 27, 2011 The racial divide may be narrowing in Singapore. (Yahoo!) The current wave of migrant workers [...]
Are our GLCs Employing Foreigners First?
This article first appeared here on 23 Sep 2010. Written by: Gilbert Goh Lately, I have read widely from many socio-political blogs that our government-linked companies (GLCs) are hiring foreigners first instead of considering our local [...]
Stagnant wages, immigration fuel Singapore squeeze
Stagnant wages, immigration fuel Singapore squeeze ALEX KENNEDY | February 17, 2011 07:09 AM EST | Huffington Post SINGAPORE — Singaporean Ramzi Mohamed is tired of sleeping in the living room of the two-bedroom apartment he [...]
Home-grown Singaporeans may be living in a delusion
Home-grown Singaporeans may be living in a delusion The huge influx of foreigners into the workforce led to a foreigner versus local argument. Since the Asian financial crisis from 1997 to 2011, I have been trying to understand the problem in a [...]
Foreigner expat: Is $5,500 salary enough for me in Singapore?
Posted by Cybeh on: 11 November 2010, 14:27:06 pm Hi, I recently got a job offer for 5500 SGD pre tax per month ($66,000) from Singapore. I have 6+ yrs of experience in Information Security Management, and currently earning a good salary [...]
Expats highest paid in Singapore but little mixing with locals
Posted on November 25, 2010 by Abhijit (reproduced with permission) Singapore has fallen sharply in HSBC’s Expat Explorer survey of expatriate life in different countries. Fourth in the overall rankings in 2009, behind Canada, Australia [...]
Singapore’s Working Poor
James Gomez on Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 11:00am Speech delivered at SDP`s pre-election rally on 13 Nov 2010 at Hong Lim Park. Fellow Singaporeans, friends, ladies and gentlemen. Today we are here to launch SDP’s Economic Programme [...]
More summer finance jobs in Singapore offered at Calcutta jobs fair
More summer finance jobs in Singapore offered at Calcutta jobs fair Astbury Marsden, 11 Nov 2010 The global financial services sector appears to be bouncing back from the economic downturn if recent activity at the Indian Institute of Management [...]
Singaporean workers not creative enough?
Singaporean workers not creative enough? Denial Tan says: October 28, 2010 at 10:03 pm This comment appeared in the article Globilisation - A Bane or Boon For Singaporeans? “However, if you ask them to do something differently and [...]
Fewer foreigners wanted in Singapore
Fewer foreigners wanted in Singapore By Megawati Wijaya, 28 Oct 2010 www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia SINGAPORE - Singapore's open-door immigration policy for foreign labor is closing amid persistently high unemployment in Europe and [...]
Singaporeans can also be foreign talent
Chinese chef at work in Qatar Many of us thought that one can be an expatriate only if he is highly educated, highly specialised or highly connected. That's true for most expatriate postings for many countries in the world. Things, [...]
ILO Finds Discouraged Workers in Singapore
ILO finds discouraged workers in Singapore Posted on October 2, 2010 by Abhijit on pressrun.net (reprinted with permission) More than four million people around the world stopped looking for jobs last year, according to the International [...]
