Mark Lee admits that most of his workers at Old Town White C
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Mark Lee admits that most of his workers at Old Town White Coffee are from mainland China
Singapore’s famous comedian Mark Lee who has opened five Old Town White Coffee outlets in Singapore has admitted to a Chinese news portal xin.sg that most of the company’s staff are mainland Chinese.
It was reported by xin.sg that as most of their workers are from China, the company decided that it would be most convenient for them to receive their bonuses in cash.
Mark Lee is contemplating buying a cash counting machine to pay his China workers in cash:
“That is why we are going to buy a cash counting machine this year. I’m not being proud by saying this – otherwise, we really can’t count the cash!”
[Xin.sg, 27 January 2010]
He did not reveal why his company preferred to employ mainland Chinese over Singaporeans.
One likely reason is the lower cost of PRC workers. According to an insider from the F&B industry, a PRC service staff usually cost between $600 – $800 monthly.
As Malaysians are demanding higher wages now, many are switching to the “cheaper” PRC workers.
Few Singaporean will be keen to take up jobs at such low wages which are hardly enough to survive in Singapore.
There is no minimum wage in Singapore. Employers have the complete autonomy to set the wages as they see fit and with the easy availability of cheap foreign labor, they have few incentives to employ Singaporeans who cost more.
For a China worker, $600 translates to about RMB$2,900 which is far higher than what they can earn doing the same job back home.
Stung by rising anger on the ground as its ill-conceived pro-foreigner labor policies, the ruling party is now trying to claw back lost support by promising to reduce Singapore’s reliance on foreign workers.
Based on feedback we obtain from readers, companies are still employing foreigners with some posting discriminatory job ads to scour for foreign workers of selected nationality.
Since the ruling party is unwilling to do more to help Singaporeans from the lower-income group who are being squeezed out of their livelihoods by the relentless influx of cheap foreign labor, Singaporeans will have to help them ourselves.
What's your view on this person?
Let's discuss.
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it's natural of every businessman to think of cutting overheads and making more profits
talk abt wat? -
Whats there to discuss.
Ts can just go to old town coffee and order
something, then u will know why he prefer PRC lor
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Whats there to discuss.
Ts can just go to old town coffee and order
something, then u will know why he prefer PRC lor
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Originally posted by noahnoah:
Whats there to discuss.
Ts can just go to old town coffee and order
something, then u will know why he prefer PRC lor
cheap -
One day all our passports will be dark maroon in colour.
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Employers / bosses doesnt care a damn.
They only interest in profit and cut cost.
As what they love to say : BUSINESS DOESNT CARE.
Most of the employers / bosses think like that!
They are killing the locals.
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Is this one of the reasons why Resort World Sentosa decides to get Mark Lee as their ambassador? Profit is the most important, who cares about employing Sinkies.
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Thats why the teh si at ya kun always tastes better than the one at toast box. The people who make it.
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If employ Singaporeans , will Singaporeans willing to accept Salary of $600 per month, 12hr shift , 6 days work ?
If employ Singaporeans , then the food price must increase by 20% more , are you willing to pay $5.50 for a plate of chick rice?
If you are the Boss and workers are your robots, do you want super power machine with cheapest expenses on usuage? YOU PEE , YOU QI , YOU DIA LIAP NEE?
Now, who should I blame? Blame Singapore Government? Blame Singaporeans ?
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Originally posted by Super.kumantong:
If employ Singaporeans , will Singaporeans willing to accept Salary of $600 per month, 12hr shift , 6 days work ?
If employ Singaporeans , then the food price must increase by 20% more , are you willing to pay $5.50 for a plate of chick rice?
If you are the Boss and workers are your robots, do you want super power machine with cheapest expenses on usuage? YOU PEE , YOU QI , YOU DIA LIAP NEE?
Now, who should I blame? Blame Singapore Government? Blame Singaporeans ?
What makes you think that a plate of chicken rice will cost $5.50?
If your plate of chicken rice was selling at $3.50 initially with Singaporean workers, you reduce cost by employing PRC workers. Do you think the chicken rice stall owner will reduce his plate of chicken rice to $2.00?
Business owners have a profit motive, if they can reduce cost and still maintain the original selling price, they will be more than happy to accept the extra profits from the reduction in wage cost.
Only can blame the PAP government for their open door policy to foreigners, other countries protect their citizens from cheap foreign labour, while the PAP exploit it at the expense of Singaporeans.
This open door labour policy is akin to "dumping" in economic terms. When another country can produce it's goods at a lower price (either by help from government in terms of subsidies or tax holidays) in mass volume, decides to mass export it to another country where the market price is much higher, it will upset the market equilibrium of the importing country, rendering workers in that particular industry to be unemployed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
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Originally posted by Shisui:
One day all our passports will be dark maroon in colour.
why leh?
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If anything cause the price of your plate of chicken rice to increase, it's the influx of PRCs into Singapore. Why you ask?
The influx of PRCs into Singapore increased the demand for resources, your housing price increases, your chicken rice stall owner needing to pay off a higher loan for his house will raise the price of his plate of chicken rice.
How much has the price of food gone up these 3-4 years (right after PAP's open door immigration policy)?
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Singapore IT company recruiting Malaysian citizens and PRs only
Local SME looking for Singapore PR to be its Retail Operations Manager
Increase in job ads, but are they for Singaporeans or foreigners?
Australia cracks down on skilled migrants even as Singapore continues to import unskilled foreign workers
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Bottomline : PROFITS.
Business really doesnt care at all.
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GLC Employee: The country I had once sworn to protect is now nothing but a cheap whore
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Resort World Sentosa casino run by significant number of foreigners
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Even CNA is questioning the percentage of Singaporeans employed by Resorts World Sentosa
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Cheap, cheap, cheap...we are heading backwards.....in terms of salary and heading fowards...in terms of ever increasing bills....
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15 job vacancies for Spa managers in Singapore reserved for Filipinos only
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Originally posted by Ban Me Please:
15 job vacancies for Spa managers in Singapore reserved for Filipinos only
For pinay? Oh...that is bad...isnt it? -
Originally posted by likeyou:
For pinay? Oh...that is bad...isnt it?
may be pinay no need to attend english classjust read the requirement - unbelievable
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PRC technician not keen to take up Singapore PR and plans to return to China
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PRC begin to be picky on jobs.