PSP Leong Mun Wai calls for a 30% quota on foreign talents.

PSP calls for a 30% quota. On top of that, they want a 10% on nationality. They also want top management positions to be ringfenced for Singaporeans.

PSP's policies will make the environment so hostile, that no foreign investor will consider Singapore to build any new business. They will also yurn Singapore into a mediocre country with their protectionism.

When companies come here, they hire Singaporeans and also foreigners. But they are also committed to training Singaporeans to take over more jobs.

Dr Tan See Leng said in his speech in Parliament:

"Indeed many companies tell us that they prefer to hire locals over foreigners, so long as they can find the skills here. Even if there is initially a shortage of skills, many are willing to develop local talent to fill these roles

Take for example PayPal.

When it first started, it had to rely more heavily on global talent for specialised technical skills and more senior roles that required managing regional teams.

However, PayPal committed to hire and train 150 Singaporeans across tech and business roles over 3 years."

The PAP Government's strategy is to attract good investments here first to entrench the jobs here even if we do not have enough local talent. We train up our people. In this way, they create good jobs not just for current Singaporeans but also future Singaporeans.

Because we welcomed Mizuho Bank in the early 2000s and allowed them to employ 60% foreigners, today, more Singaporeans have access to good jobs in the bank.

Populism is always shortsighted, focuses only on the present and uses an emotional argument. But thankfully, Singaporeans are mostly rational, reasonable and pragmatic because ultimately, it is about them and their children's future.

Job creation is not a simple matter of getting rid of the foreign workers, and all the jobs will go to Singaporeans.

Job creation is not a simple matter of getting rid of the foreign workers, and all the jobs will go to Singaporeans.

THE PAP Government helps the Singaporean worker remains competitive and employable through training, upgrading, and lifelong learning, so that he has the skills to match the jobs on offer.

The PSP has focused only on numbers.. Not once have they encouraged the worker to upgrade themselves or pick new skills. It shows that they do not have a real concern for the Singaporean workers.

The Singapore economy requires 3.4 million people to support the entire breadth and depth of activities.

The local workforce is just 2.3 million. Get rid of the 1.1 million (tens of thousands) foreign workers, and YOU will be jobless.

By remaining open and providing businesses with the access to global expertise, the Government has anchored many good jobs for Singaporeans that could have gone elsewhere.

𝐏𝐒𝐏 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬, 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.

Between 2010 and 2020, EP and S pass holders grew by about 110,000.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐌𝐄𝐓 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟑𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝.

The PSP assumes that if we reduced the number of foreigners here; then all these jobs will automatically go to Singaporeans.

In a Facebook post, Leong Mun Wai said that we can get rid of 'tens of thousands' of workpass holders and he thinks Singaporeans can fill these jobs.

"But that thinking is fatally flawed," Lawrence Wong said.

"First, we already have more than 25,000 PMET vacancies today, with many companies still looking to hire.

With so many companies having difficulties filling these vacancies, how would we find people with the relevant skill-sets to take on the additional “tens of thousands” of jobs that Mr Leong thinks can be created by getting rid of the foreigners?"

Singaporeans, is this what you want? To drive investments away and together with it, the jobs as well?

Singaporeans, is this what you want? To drive investments away and together with it, the jobs as well?

Your noise will be heard far and wide.

The Government has to strike a balance. In striking this balance, they take into account 3 factors:

1. The needs of our industries and enterprises.

2. The needs of our workers of this generation.

3. The opportunities for our children in the next generations.

When you send the wrong signal and turn investors away, not only your jobs will be impacted, the good jobs the government wants to create for the young who are still in schools, and those yet to be born will be impacted as well.

There are Singaporeans with valid concerns to be addressed but there are far more people with a political agenda who, on a daily basis, are on social media to stir the negative sentiments such as pointing out the number of errant companies flagged for discriminatory hiring practices.

Tell you what, the fact that you even get to know that such discriminatory practices exist means that there is monitoring of the situation by the authorities. And yes, the process can be refined and that is being looked into.

Those who continue to stir the negative sentiments against foreigners are not doing Singaporeans any favour. Their agenda is political.