Tan(See Leng) told reporters last Saturday that the government would examine the diversity of the workforce in sectors that need a lot of foreign workers. He said that MOM hopes not to see a concentration of workers from a certain source or nationality.
“From the perspective of this Covid-19 pandemic, one of the painful lessons we have learnt is that if you overly rely on one particular country, whether it is labour or for your talent, and if something happens and you get disruption, then you are going to be in a much more difficult position,” he said.
During the debate, Tan disclosed that the proportion of Indian nationals among EP holders had increased from 14% in 2005 to 25% last year. That is to say, among the 177,000 EP holders last year, one quarter came from 1 single country alone – India. He didn’t disclose similar figures for S Pass holders.
The above is from the correspondent and posted in TOC. What Tan See Leng said is like MOM does not want but has no choice, whatever that means, and so there is a concentration of workers from a certain source or nationality for so many decades or more than one decade. There is no choice, only India has the talent Singapore needed, other countries did not have, and so is no talent Singapore. Singaporean talents are only good to be grab driver and security guards or to deliver food. And the govt could not do anything about it, could not diversify, and still figuring how to go about it. By the time they come up with a solution, maybe another decade would have gone by and MOM would be run by a new batch of people...maybe from India.
What I find it puzzling is that the number of EP holders had increased from 14% to 25% last year. Why is this puzzling? If you turn left and turn right, or go to the central business district or go to East Coast or Chennai Business Park, all you see are foreign workers from one source or nationality. And they made up only 25%? Why is that so? If 25% is already filling everywhere, where is the 75% that could not be seen? Is it that our eyes are deceiving us or the numbers are funny? Should not we be seeing the 75% everywhere instead of the 25%? Is there a concentration of Ceca Indians in Chennai Business Park and Mumbai Financial Centre? Dunno there, no body knows. It just happen last night.
Something is not right. Who are the 75%, angmohs, pinoys or China Chinese? And together they are drowned by the 25%. Real or not? Maybe 25% is bigger than 75%.
Would the imbeciles take a walk in Chennai Business Park and Mumbai Financial Centre, without putting on their sunglasses?
PS. A country with no local talents. A country that badmouth its own citizens as no talents. A country that everyday bragged about how good foreign talents are even if they came from funny universities with funny or fake degrees. A country that told its graduate PMETs to retrain, to upskill as drivers, cleaners and security guards, and food delivery boys and girls. A country with no citizens, afraid to talk about citizens, only referred to them as locals or residents. Should be called a hotel instead of state if citizens are a shame to be mentioned.