Foreign workers steal your jobs? No, they bring jobs to you.

Back in 2011 when there was a backlash because of foreign workers, Mr Lee Kuan Yew still said the same thing: foreign workers bring jobs to Singaporeans. Take it from Ah Gong. He always had Singapore's interest in everything he did.

Without access to highly skilled workers, investors will not come here. If investors do not come here, there will be no jobs for you.

The Singaporean is a confident man/woman who takes steps to improve himself/herself, not afraid of competition because he/she cannot become a global leader if he/she is afraid of global competition.

That is who you are: confident and not anxious. Have a positive attitude and seize the opportunity to learn from the best and those who are better.

Foreigners bring jobs to you: LKY

Foreign workers steal your jobs? No, they bring jobs to you.

Back in 2011 when there was a backlash because of foreign workers, Mr Lee Kuan Yew still said the same thing: foreign workers bring jobs to Singaporeans. Take it from Ah Gong. He always had Singapore's interest in everything he did.

Without access to highly skilled workers, investors will not come here. If investors do not come here, there will be no jobs for you.

The Singaporean is a confident man/woman who takes steps to improve himself/herself, not afraid of competition because he/she cannot become a global leader if he/she is afraid of global competition.

That is who you are: confident and not anxious. Have a positive attitude and seize the opportunity to learn from the best and those who are better.

Another promise kept!

The National Jobs Council was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat in his fourth Budget on May 26 in response to the impact of the pandemic.

The National Job Council is headed by SM Tharman and went full speed.

It aimed to create close to 100,000 opportunities comprising jobs, 25,000 traineeships and 30,000 skills training placements.

The ambition of the council is "on a scale well beyond any past experience," SM Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in June.

The Council has already exceeded its target.

The future of jobs and Jamus Lim

The Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum is out. The pace of technology adoption will remain unabated. It will transform tasks, jobs and skills by 2025.

By 2025, work will be divided equally between humans and machines. This shift in the division of labour means 85 million jobs displaced.

97 million new roles may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms.

And yes, that means training for new skills.

Don't believe it when politicians come along and promise you the easy way.

Like Jamus Lim telling you that good jobs are jobs that you want, jobs that pay well, jobs that don't require you train for new skills beyond school. These are election rhetoric. Empty words.

During the election, Jamus Lim said in a political broadcast:

"I wish to express how important it is that our government doesn’t just promise us jobs, but good jobs. .. Too many of the promised jobs fail to meet up to our expectations,... because they call for us to have skills that the educational system did not provide to us."

With the fast pace of technological change, you either skill-up or be replaced. This is especially so for low wage workers where machines and robots can take over easily.

The answer is not a minimum wage. The answer is how you can stay employed so that you will earn a wage.

When a politician calls for a minimum wage for you while making light of skill-training, you know he does not make sense.

What do you see? 600 jobs held by foreigners (PRCs) or 400 job opportunities for Singaporeans and a chance to learn, gain experience and grow in a global company?

What do you see?

600 jobs held by foreigners (PRCs) or 400 job opportunities for Singaporeans and a chance to learn, gain experience and grow in a global company? Is the glass half full or half empty?

Or are you going to complain that there are many PRCs in your workplace and start a petition to ban them like Lim Tean?

A petition that says: abolish Alibaba and return 1000 jobs to Singaporeans (Lim Tean's petition: abolish CECA and return 2400+ jobs to Singaporeans)? Does this even make sense?

Abolish CECA and you still have 2400+ jobs to take back? Are you thinking?

If Alibaba does not feel welcome, do you still have 400 jobs? If Alibaba is 'banned', can you take back 600 jobs? Does this make sense at all?

Don't be fooled.

When a global company comes here, they bring with them some talents, they also create some jobs for Singaporeans. This is how good jobs are created for Singaporeans.

If they do not come here, if they go elsewhere, then every job they create goes to a foreigner elsewhere. It's really that simple.

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