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Mar 6, 2018, 8:54 pm

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(Another) changes/tightening fo hiring foreigners

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More companies will have to give locals a chance to apply for higher-paying jobs by advertising them on the national Jobs Bank for at least 14 days before they can hire a foreigner for the role.

This rule will be extended from July 1 to cover firms with at least 10 workers and for jobs paying under $15,000 a month, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said yesterday. Currently, it applies only to firms with at least 26 workers and for jobs paying under $12,000 a month.

Government tightened the criteria for EPs in 2014 and last year, resulting in slower growth in the number of EP holders each year, to an average of 3,000 a year in the past three years, down from a peak of 32,000 in 2011.

Wonder how many more such steps will it take to see that foreign worker population in Singapore is composed only from C level executives who do not care about requirements/rules/cost of living and cheap, unqualified foreign labor and there is nothing in between. They already succeeded cutting EP numbers 10 times...

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