Foreign-worker policies to be tightened - Channel NewsAsia

Foreign-worker policies to be tightened - Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE: The government will further tighten its policy on middle-income foreign workers, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday during his National Day Rally speech.

PM Lee said this was to address challenges at the workplace.

The measures include raising the salary thresholds for Employment Passes and tightening educational qualifications.

Details of the changes will be announced soon by the Ministry of Manpower.

Mr Lee said the ministry will work with tripartite partners to develop guidelines for fair and responsible recruitment and employment practices.

The change comes just a few months after the ministry raised qualifying salaries for foreign professionals and skilled workers.

Mr Lee said the issue in the middle-lower range arose because foreigners on Employment Pass work alongside Singapore's middle-level managers and executives

Mr Lee said Singapore may be seeing full employment, but Singa­poreans still worry about competition from foreigners.

"One polytechnic student asked me this very direct question," Mr Lee said.

"He said 'you know you have the S Pass for people who are one level above the work permits; why do you set the S Pass qualifying salary at S$1800?'

"Why did he ask me that question? Because really, what he meant was, S$1,800 is less than what many diploma holders are earning.

"Diploma holders earn more than that, so if you set the level there, we are going to be having people who are earning less than us, but competing against us. Why do you let the foreigner compete directly against me?

"And I understand those feelings, but we need some non-Singaporeans to complement the Singaporeans and to make up our short falls."

From July 1, 2011, to qualify for S Pass, applicants' monthly salaries have to be S$2,000 or more, up from S$1,800.

Similarly, the qualifying salary thresholds for Q1, P2, and P1 Passes were raised to S$2,800, S$4,000, and S$8,000 respectively.

Mr Lee added small and medium sized enterprises must also be taken into consideration, as they often need foreign workers the most.

He cautioned tightening on foreign workers does not mean Singaporeans will automatically get better jobs or higher pay, and that slowing down the inflow of foreign workers means accepting slower economic growth.

Mr Lee said Singapore must stay open to the world, attracting global winners to invest here, and with diverse teams creating jobs and prosperity for Singaporeans.

-CNA/wk

My point of view.

I don't know what idea to border the foreign workers. Usually, most of the smart Singaporean going out to oversea country to get higher pay as well. I think, most of that mind set happening from some lazy bones. Very funny, there were no point to get a job easily. Because, who want to work hard anywhere can get a good chance ever! It was depends on personal mind set and point of view.

Any way thank you Singapore to get higher salary for foreign worker!

ကၽြန္ေတာ္သိ့သမွ် လက္ရွိ Singapore MOM အေျခအေန

၂၀၁၀ ႏွစ္ကုန္ေတာ့ အရင္အလုပ္က ထြက္ၿပီး အလုပ္ရွာေတာ့ ကုမၸဏီေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား အင္တာဗ်ဴးေခၚတယ္ လုပ္ငန္းအေတြ႕အႀကဳံရွိၿပီးသားဆုိေတာ့ ႀကဳိက္က်တာေပါ့ေလ။ ခက္တာက MOM ကုိ Pass တင္ေတာ့ စေတြ႔တာဘဲ တစ္ခါတည္း ဂ်က္လုိက္တာ ဂ်က္ေလယဥ္ေတာင္အဘေခၚရမယ္၊ ဒါနဲ႔ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း ေရငတ္တုန္း ေရတြင္းထဲက် ဆုိသလုိ ျပန္လစ္တာေပါ့ဘာရမလဲ၊ ေက်းဇူးတင္တယ္ MOM ေရလုိ႔ေတာင္ ေျပာလိုက္ျခင္ေသး၊ ရန္ကုန္မွ ေလးလေလာက္ေနတယ္ ေျဖစရာ အေၾကြးတင္းေနတဲ့ စာေမးပြဲေျဖျဖစ္သြားတယ္၊ မိ့သားစုနဲ႔ အခ်ိန္ေပးႏူိင္တယ္၊ ေလးလေက်ာ္ ငါးလေလာက္ စာေမးပြဲ ေျဖအၿပီး ျပန္လစ္လာတယ္၊ ေမ ၆ ၂၀၁၁ ေရာက္တယ္ ေမ ၁၀ ၂၀၁၁ အလုပ္ရတယ္၊ တင္တယ္ ဂ်က္ျပန္တယ္၊ ဒီတစ္ခါေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ နည္းနည္း မ်က္မုန္းက်ဳိးတယ္ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႔လဲ Why? ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ Question Mark ေတြေခါင္းထဲ သီႀကီးနဲ႔ေပါ့ေလ၊ ေနာက္သတိ့ထားမိ့တာ အရင္ရုံးက Application OC မယူထားမိ့တဲ့ ကုိယ့္ကုိ ကုိယ္သာ အျပစ္ျပန္တင္မ့ိတယ္၊ သြားေတာင္ဖုိ႔စဥ္းစားေသးတယ္၊ စိတ္ထဲမရေလာက္ဘူးထင္တာနဲ႔ဘဲ မသြားျဖစ္လုိက္ဘူးဗ်၊ အဲ့လုိနဲ႔ တင္လုိ္က္ ဂ်က္လုိက္နဲ႔ ႏွစ္လျပည့္ေတာ့ ျပည္ေတာ္ ျပန္ရေသးတယ္၊ အသနားခံစာတင္တဲ့ ကုမၸဏီေတြကလည္း တင္ေပးပါရဲ႕ တစ္ခါက ႏွစ္ခါဆုိ သိပ္အဆင္မေျပေတာ့ဘူး၊ အဲ့လိုနဲ႔ ျပန္ေစာင့္ေနရင္းနဲ႔ဘဲ အရင္ရုံးကုိ ေမးလ္ပုိ႔ၿပီး Application OC ေတာင္းၾကည့္ေသးတယ္ ပထမေတာ့ အဆင္ေျပေတာ့မလုိ ေပးေတာ့မလုိနဲ႔ ေနာက္ဆုံး အဖ်ားရႈးၿပီး မရလုိက္ဘူး၊ အျမင္ကတ္တာနဲ႔ ပုိသမွ်ေမးလ္ေတြကို MOM ကုိ BCC ျပစ္လုိက္တယ္၊ အဲ့ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာဘဲ ေနာက္ဆုံး အလုပ္ဗ်ဴးခဲ့တဲ့ ကုမၸဏီက တင္မဲ့ Application ကုိ ေမွ်ာ္တလင့္လင့္ေပါ့၊ သူတုိ႔လည္း အလုပ္မ်ားေနလုိ႔၊ Oversea ေရာက္ေနလုိ႔နဲ႔ ဆက္ေစာင့္ေပါ့၊ ေနာက္ဆုံး အဲဒီရုံးမတုိင္ခင္ တင္ခဲ့တဲ့ရုံးက တတိယေျမာက္ Appeal က်မွဘဲ Approved ျဖစ္ေတာ့တယ္ဗ်ာ၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း ခုတစ္ေခါက္ျပန္သြား ကတည္းက IPA ရမွဘဲ ျပန္လာေတာ့မယ္လုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ထားၿပီးသားဗ်၊ ေအာ္ေမ့လုိ အဲ့လိုဂ်က္ေနတုန္း ရန္ကုန္ကေန ညစ္ညစ္နဲ႔ PJ(မေလး) ကုိ အလုပ္လွမ္းတင္တာ အင္တာဗ်ဴးေခၚတယ္ဗ်ာ၊ တစ္ကယ္လုိ႔သာ IPA မရခဲ့ရင္ PJ ေရာက္ေနေလာက္ၿပီထင္ပါရဲ႕၊ အဲလုိ႔နဲ႔ဘဲ အခုလက္ရွိအလုပ္မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္အဆင္ေျပသြားပါတယ္။

သိပ္မၾကားေသခင္ကဘဲ(တစ္လ မျပည့္ေသးပါ) ကၽြန္ေတာ္နဲ႔ ညီလုိ အစ္လုိ ခင္တဲ့ ရပ္ကြက္ထဲက IT Pro ေကာင္ေလးပါဘဲ၊ အလုပ္လာရွာတယ္ဗ်ာ၊ အဆင္ေျပပါတယ္ အင္တာဗ်ဴးေတြ တန္းစီရတယ္၊ ေခၚတာမ်ားလုိ႔ ဘယ္ဟာ ေရြးရမလဲဆုိၿပီး ေခါင္းေတာင္ စားရတဲ့အထိ့ဗ်ာ၊ ေနာက္ဆုံးေတာ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်ၿပီး Application စတင္ေပးတဲ့ရုံးႏွင့္ အဆင္ေျပတယ္၊ မေန႔ကတင္ ေနာက္ေန Approved တဲ့ဗ်ာ၊ ဘယ္ေလာက္ေကာင္းလဲဗ်ာ၊ ဒါနဲ႔ ေနာက္ရုံးတစ္ရုံးက ထပ္တင္ဖုိ႔လုပ္ေသးတယ္၊ ေဟာ MOM က တစ္ခု Approved ျဖစ္ၿပီးရင္ ေနာက္တစ္ခု ထပ္တင္လုိ႔ မရေတာ့ဘူးတဲ့ဗ်ာ။

ေနာက္ၿပီးေတာ့ တစ္လမျပည့္ခင္ ဟုိအလုပ္ခုန္ ဒီအလုပ္ခုန္ ျခင္သူမ်ား သတိ့ထားပါ၊ ဂ်က္ပါလိမ့္မယ္ ဘယ္လုိနည္းနဲ႔မွ Approved ျဖစ္ဖုိ႔မျမင္ပါ သူငယ္ခ်င္းတစ္ေယာက္ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး ဂ်က္ေနပါတယ္။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္သ့ိသမွ် ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး ကိစၥေလးေတြပါဘဲ၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း ေ႔ရွကသင္ခန္းစားကုိ ယူၿပီး အခုရုံးမွာမွ Application Original Copy ႀကိန္းေသေအာင္ယူထားတယ္ဗ်။

ပထမဆုံး Employment Pass တင္တဲ့သူမ်ား Original Copy ရေအာင္ယူထားပါ၊ Documents ကုိအၿမဲ Verify ျပန္လုပ္ပါ၊ Contract Letter ကုိ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ဖတ္ၿပီးမွ လက္မွတ္ထုိးပါ၊ ရပုိင္ခြင့္နဲ႔ တာ၀န္ကုိ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသားေျပာပါ အားမနာပါနဲ႔၊ တာ၀န္ယူရမယ့္အပုိင္းကုိ ပီျပင္ေအာင္ တာ၀န္ယူၿပီး အပုိအလုပ္ေတြကုိ သေဘာေကာင္းၿပီးမလုပ္ေပးပနဲ႔ေနာ္။

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