CECA rules prevail or MOM rules prevail?

CECA exempt their employees from MOM criteria in issuing EP and SP.  See Article 9.3.3.

Article 9.3.3 of that agreement states that “Neither Party shall require labour market testing, economic needs testing or other procedures of similar effects as a condition for temporary entry in respect of natural persons upon whom the benefits of this Chapter are conferred.”

In plain English, it is not compulsory for companies from this country to employ local talents, but are free to bring in their own qualified nationals. In other words, they are not subject to schemes like Fair Consideration Framework.

'Many people know that quite a few companies from that country at Changi Business Park is filled to the brim with their own nationals. Why didn’t MOM take them to task earlier? The simple reason is that they are protected by CECA all along.... (Luckily MP Ang Wei Neng just found out. Many MPs and ministers still sleeping or pretending not to know. Forgive him, he is from West Coast, probably never been to that part of singapore. What about the MPs of that constituency, also dunno?) Within brackets are my comments.

Let me quote Article 9.3.3: “Neither Party shall require labour market testing, economic needs testing or other procedures of similar effects as a condition for temporary entry in respect of natural persons upon whom the benefits of this Chapter are conferred.”'

Above is quoted from posts by Foong Swee Fong in TRE.

Compare the above terms with what Chan Chun Sing said about the MOM requirements that CECA Indians must abide by, then see the contradictions. Obviously the two statements did not agree. This is what Chan Chun Sing said in CNA,

'It is also not true that CECA requires Singapore authorities to automatically grant Employment Passes to professionals, managers and executives from India who want to work here, the statement added....

Reiterating these points, the minister told CNA on Saturday that all foreign nationals applying for Employment Passes must meet the prevailing criteria. Existing rules that stipulate hiring be “done in a meritocratic and non-discriminatory way” also must be adhered to by employers. 

Indian nationals seeking to enter Singapore under CECA as “intra-corporate transferees”, or employees transferred from a company’s overseas unit to Singapore, will also have to meet these rules, he added.'

Between the two criteria above, the CECA said Indian nationals ' are not subject to schemes like Fair Consideration Framework, no need labour market testing'. Chan Chun Sing said they are, 'under CECA as “intra-corporate transferees”, or employees transferred from a company’s overseas unit to Singapore, will also have to meet these rules.'

Which rule shall prevail, the CECA rules or the MOM rules stated by Chan Chun Sing. It cannot be both shall prevail. One must over ride the other. The Indian govt once wanted to sue the Singapore govt over this? 

What do you think? Who is in a state of denial?

The Silly Logic Of Singapore's Employment Strategy

 The Silly Logic Of Singapore's Employment Strategy

Let it be very clear in our head:

1. No sovereign and sensible country in the world would allow foreigners to invade its territory in any form, any way, any how.

2. No intelligent and wise government worth its salt would allow foreign job hunters to come into the country to dominate and overwhelm its tiny job market.

3. No caring and patriotic leader would allow foreign scavengers to steal and rob in broad daylight the rice-bowls (their only means of livelihood) of his own countrymen.

4. No decent brain would think of providing an avenue for the influx of alien 'talents' from a third world country (that has more than one billion mouths to feed) to infiltrate, invade, infest and imbalance the employment equilibrium within its beloved country and jeopardise the livelihood and survival of its own citizens.

Now, take a closer and deeper look into the employment strategy of Singapore. What do you think it is? It is at the very least, silly.

Recently, the Chief of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Ravi Menon openly stated, and therefore confirmed that 57% of senior management from the banking sector are foreign employees.

The 57% is a good indication that the banking industry clearly prefers foreigners than Singaporeans. How has the employment situation in this lucrative sector stealthily crept up to this unhealthy state? Someone must be sleeping.

Are Singaporeans really less educated, less well-trained, less qualified, less intelligent and therefore less competitive? Are our universities producing misfit and unfit graduates that can't even compete with third world village pumpkins with nicely printed papers from Degree Mills?

In the past 15 years, since CECA was signed to secure a steady supply of very hungry food hunters from India, the government had openly, earnestly and relentlessly discouraged Singaporeans from pursuing a degree. Many Junior Colleges have been deliberately closed down.

Recently retired Minister Khaw Boon Wan proudly and crudely said,

“You own a degree, but so what? You can’t eat it. If that cannot give you a good life, a good job, it is meaningless. Can you have a whole country where 100 percent are graduates? I am not so sure ... What you do not want is to create huge graduate unemployment.” (Straits Times; 18 May 2013).

Yes, no smart government would want a 100% graduate population. It would be very difficult for the government to cater jobs for all of them. Moreover, there would be too many smart thinking and analytical people to scrutinise the competency and quality of the leadership in government. This is understandable.

We have always thought that too many graduates in Singapore is not a good thing. But now we learn that 57% of senior bankers are foreign 'talents‘. The question is: How many of this 57% are graduates?

Can we take it that EP holders are mostly graduates? If so, then why does the government keep discouraging us from pursuing a degree and yet allow jobs that require degree holders to go to foreigners with degrees?

I simply can't imagine that a self-proclaimed "caring and outstanding" government can purposely weaken its own workforce by discouraging the citizens from attaining higher education (a basic degree) which would definitely enable them to compete on equal footing in a global economy.

"Go for mastery of skills, said Tharman (Business Times, 18 Sep 2014). And what else did the other Ministers, such as the Trade and Industry Minister and the NTUC Chief (who has been kicked out by the voters in the last GE), said? They said similar things.

Our Universities have been boasting to the world how good they are, even claiming to be Top 10 in Asia, yet these very same Universities cannot even produce top-notch PMETs, such as IT professionals and Bankers? Shameful? Of course!

Think:

Is there any other silly government in the world that purposely weakens it’s own workforce and then bring in foreigners to occupy the lucrative top jobs?


Queen of Heart 

 

PS. Posted on behalf of Queen of Heart

John Pilger - The coming war on China (The truth that must be told)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDl9ecICIYg

 

This is a very thorough research piece of documentary that covered many years of American activities in the world as an Empire till today with very recent additions on the American provocations in the South China Sea and the erratic and warmongering Trump at his devious and lying best. Many things in this documentary were not meant to be seen by the people of the world. The Americans would be fuming against what Pilger has produced and narrated about the cruel experiment on the poor natives of the Marshall Islands. And there are many things about China that the Americans would not want to see or want to know.

Pilger revealed the extent of the American Empire and how it encircled and contained China militarily while the American go about spreading the lie that China was harbouring the intention of becoming a hegemonic super power when the truth is that America is the resident hegemon. The soldiers on the ground, ie American bases all over the world and around China speak the truth of American aggressive and provocative behaviour to the point of starting a war with China. The hate China disease in the Americans could be clearly seen in the comments by some of the American leaders from the 60s and 70s, harping on the Chinese threat when China was the victim of their aggression, invasion and colonisation. 

There were also some factual revelation of where the wealth of America and some of the elite American families came from, the opium trade in China. From some reviews, it is clear that this documentary is getting on the nerves of American and white supremacists. They are gritting their teeth in rage watching it and at the prospect of the people of the world watching the ugly truth exposed by John Pilger.

This powerful documentary has been very well received as one of John Pilger's great work and has been screened in UK and some western cinemas. This is a must watch documentary to remove the scale the Americans pulled over the eyes of the innocents around the world.

Thank you, John Pilger.

CECA Indians infested local companies. MOM did not know about it till now, or did not think it was important enough till now

MOM Ownself Check Ownself?

 The news says MOM is putting 47 companies on its watchlist for suspected discriminatory hiring practices.

All these companies together with other companies in question, are suspected to favor hiring foreigners or foreigners of particular nationality.

The fundamental question is, MOM is the one who issued all those work passes and permits to these companies. Why do they only find out of such discriminatory hiring practices AFTER they have approved all the permits and passes to these companies?

Didn’t they have a system of checks on all companies before issuing all these work permits or EP, S passes?

Do MOM have a system of checks on compliance on the Quota system? If yes, why do some companies have over 90% foreign workers?....

Goh Meng Seng

The above article by Goh Meng Seng was posted in TRE. Is Goh Meng Seng being naughty by asking mischievous questions? Apparently he is not the only one asking such obvious questions that super talents did not know was happening and even got rewarded, got promoted, etc etc. Many commentators to this article also asked many embarrassing questions that super talents and millionaires would not feel embarrassed about. Here is one.

NotMyProblem:

August 7, 2020 at 10:11 pm  (Quote)

MOM is supposed to be Ministry of Manpower. “The Ministry of Manpower is a ministry of the Government of Singapore which is responsible for the formulation and implementation of labour policies related to the workforce in Singapore.”

So how are they doing that without knowing how many foreign workers in Singapore, by industries, by businesses, etc.? Why only watchlist now, shouldn’t it be from day one? MOM is supposed to formulate Singaporeans first policy!!

What it based on to formulate and implement labour policies? How it knows what skillsets requirement from time to time? Do they know which industry in need of labour, especially local labours?

Harder Truths:

August 7, 2020 at 10:55 pm  (Quote)

The company that I used to work in was 99.9% FT. Over the last decade the locals have all been replaced by South Asian village people and then more recently by Hong Kong refugees. They are here to stay. And grow. Like cancer.

It is only a matter of time – before the next GE (as if it matters) – when no $G born will be employed in anything worthwhile except front desk civil servants, government cleaning services and the cannon-fodder military.

Remember to sing the new national anthem “majulah FT citizen lah”

Billy ma:

August 8, 2020 at 8:13 am  (Quote)

This act is just what it is ‘an act’ by PAP.

it’s not a MOM own initiative but a political wayang of lhl.

The fact that PAP & MOM pretend like they’re doing a great measure at this time is pure disgusting.

Singaporeans should be very angry with PAP that at this point lhl is still playing & making fools of the citizens.

Please remember this.

Merobok:

August 8, 2020 at 8:57 am  (Quote)

It is important to note that these companies would not have been so bold to take in so many of their kind had it not been MOM approving their work passes! These companies will send in the applications and if approved will send in more as no one stopped them.
Now, MOM says that something is wrong! Look inwards into the SOP and those who approved these passes and not pointing fingers at these companies!

What do you think would be the answers from the super talents? Let me try to guess. How about, It just happened. Or, we did not plan for it. Or, Goh Meng Seng is spreading rumours, where are his proof?

Let' move on. No need to waste time on such things.

What do you think? 

Above are some comments on the anger of Singaporeans on the CECA flood in Singapore and MOM is not spare from taking the brunt of the heat. Can MOM escape by saying they knew and they were tackling the problem to the best they could and they cannot be blamed? They have came out with great ideas like the jobs bank?

Who then should be blamed? Daft Singaporeans that took the hit from right cheek and then offered the left cheek? 

Do Singaporeans believe that the meek shall inherit the earth or be expelled from earth?

Just read this in CNA. If they have made Chan Chun Sing the PM 20 years ago, then things would not have gone that bad.

'In an interview with CNA on Saturday, Mr Chan said: “The way to interpret the recent changes is this, we are making a move towards quality, rather than quantity … and this is what we have done progressively over the years.

“Whenever the economic conditions require it, we will progressively adjust the qualifying salaries for the foreign employees coming into Singapore because in doing this, we raise the headroom for Singaporeans to compete while at the same time, it doesn’t affect the really top tier of talent that we want to attract from the world.”

He added: “But for those jobs that are somewhere in the middle where fellow Singaporeans are more than able to do so, then there’s less need for us to attract so many (foreigners) into Singapore.”'

The silly logic of American hegemony

 The Americans are all out to impose crippling sanctions on the Iranians to stop the Iranians from making their nuclear bombs. The same sanctions have been imposed on the North Koreans for having a handful of such bombs. The Americans murdered Saddam Hussein by lying that he had WMD. 

Why is the UN allowing this twisted logic of the evil Americans to decide on the fate of nations and their people when these nations simply wanted a small nuclear force as deterrence against the 7,000 or more nuclear weapons that the Americans possess and use to threaten them? And the Americans are making more nuclear bombs, more advanced nuclear bombs to be used and to threaten other countries with these bombs.  Any country without nuclear bombs would be at the mercy of this evil Empire.

The Americans have nuked the Japanese, the first and only country to use nuclear bombs to kill. The Americans also refused to commit that it would not be the first to use nuclear bombs on other nations. It has always been threatening other nations to nuke them when the Americans faked that they are being threatened.

The UN should instead pass a resolution to sanction the Americans to curb its arsenal of nuclear weapons, to stop it from making nuclear weapons and to ban the owning of nuclear weapons. Why impose sanctions on countries trying to make nuclear weapons or possessing a handful of nuclear weapons to protect themselves from being wiped out by the Americans but allow the Americans to possess so many nuclear weapons and to threaten and dictate to others, to impose sanctions on other small and weaker countries?

Are the countries in the UN insane, fools, to allow this distorted logic of the Americans to rule the day? The Americans can have all the nuclear weapons to threaten and bully others and others cannot have any nuclear weapons to defend and protect themselves from the warmongering Americans!  When is the UN going to stand up to the evil Americans and call a devil a devil and impose sanctions on the Americans instead?

It is simply unbelieveable for the UN to be forced, arm twisted and coerced by the Americans to act silly and act against small nations instead of the real and evil Americans.  When is the UN going to face the ugly truth and put the evil Americans in the corner that it deserves, to be disarm of its nuclear arsenal for the peace of the world?

The UN must not allowed itself to be bullied by the Number One Terrorist Nation of the world and be used to bully other smaller nations. Why allowed the world's worse warmongering country to possess so many nuclear weapons without sanctions against it? 

And after militarising the 5 oceans, 1000 military bases all over the world, 11 aircraft carriers to attack other peaceful countries, they are rattling their sabres in the South China Sea, in Eastern Europe and in South America and also in the Middle East for war and calling other nations as threats to peace and stability. This is the biggest mob in modern history, the international gangster, the rogue nation and the number one terrorist country human civilisations have ever known. See how trigger happy they are in killing their own coloured people and now out to con and lie to the rest of the world, the coloured people, that they are coming to protect them? Who have invaded and colonised the coloured people of the world and claiming to be the Empire of the world?

They are telling the rest of the world that there can only be peace under the Evil American Empire.