Singapore Courts put up job ad in JB on 18 Jan 2010 seeking Malaysiansto fill vacancies based in Singapore
January 15th, 2010 | 
Author: Written by Our Correspondent
Furniture retail mart Courts had launched a recruitment exercise in Johor Bahru on 18 January 2010 for Malaysians to fill various positions in Singapore according to a tip-off we receive from a reader.
In his latest speech on 31st December 2009, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong promise Singaporeans that his ruling party will ‘manage and moderate’ the inflow of foreign workers, so that Singaporeans are not overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday.
“We need the many foreign workers who work here, to build HDB flats and MRT lines, to work in factories especially on late shifts, and to help man the IRs,” he added.
[Source: Straits Times, 31 December 2009]
Is Singapore Courts recruiting Malaysian workers to work in factories on late shifts?
Let us take a look at the positions offered by Courts to the Malaysians:
The vacancies needed to be filled by Courts are: product specialists, cashiers, operation executives, assistant accountants, credit officer and customer account assistants.
Now these are not highly specialized positions which can only be filled by professionals and talents not available in Singapore or menial jobs shunned by Singaporeans.
Any Singaporean equipped with a ITE or “O” level certificate will be more than qualified to take up these jobs. Why is Courts recruiting Malaysians instead of Singaporeans?
The ruling party blamed Singaporeans for being fussy, demanding and inflexible and urged us to accept any jobs which come along our way.
To be fair to Courts, it is a company and it has to keep its labor costs low and since the ruling party allows it to employ large number of foreigners to keep its business profitable, why not make full use of it?
Singaporeans should not be taken in by PM Lee’s “sweet talk” that Singaporeans will remain his government’s “priority” as even when he is saying this, companies based in Singapore are still recruiting foreigners en masse!
If the ruling party did not open the floodgates to foreigners and give companies so much leeway to employ foreigners, then they will have no choice but to employ Singaporeans.
Instead of saving on labor costs, they will have to innovate to increase their productivity with the local workforce they have.
The period of transition will be painful for some, but eventually everybody will benefit because the companies will be able to raise their profit margin by producing more in the same period of time while Singaporeans are gainfully employed with a decent pay to support themselves and families.
With a higher pay and standard of living, Singaporeans will be inclined to have more children, thereby boosting our birth rate and decreasing our perennial dependence on foreigners.
Unfortunately, nobody in the PAP seems to realize the intangible social benefits of having a highly trained, well paid and happy workforce as they are too obsessed with GDP growth rates which can be artificially increased temporarily by importing large numbers of cheap foreign labor, but we will soon lose our competitive edge once our neighbors like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam catch up with us.
For unemployed or retrenched Singaporeans who are still looking for a job, they will stand a better chance giving up their Singapore citizenship to become a Malaysian and apply for a job based in Singapore in Malaysia instead where Singapore companies are having a field day recruiting their “talents” and “baby-producing machines” for the ruling party.
EDITORS’ NOTE:
If you come across any such advertisements employing PRs and foreigners and NOT Singaporeans in the future, please email us and we will write a story on it. We have to keep harping on the matter again, again and again till we shatter the myth propagated by the state media forever once and for all.
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Let boycott buying from Court. Why we let them make profit and then feed the foreigners.
All Singaporeans, in this case, let’s not buy from Courts.
Why feed the foreigners?
We have to stay united… to fend ourselves.
Dear People,
I guess the only reasonable explanation is :
1) The PAP wants to lower wages in Singapore without having to deal with the Unions and Singaporean workers. Lower wages means lower business costs. Never mind that the Singaporean workers find it tough.
2) Increase the population of Singapore without regards to the interests of Singaporeans.
Who is at fault here ? Singaporeans of course ! Why ? Because you get what you vote for….
Regards
Dr Syed Alwi
Can someone please send this advertisement to Lim Swee Say, Gan Kim Yong, Lim Boon Heng, Josephine Yeo, Halimah, Lee Hsien Loong and all other relevant departments to boycott COURTS as being anit-Singaporeans labour force. I do not want to spend my Singapore dollars in Court to feed malaysian workers. Why is courts exploiting Singapore business opportunities and yet not giving Singaporeans the opportunity to work with them? This is a sick country where our leader are simply fearful of every foreign establishments except Singaporeans.
As I mentioned in an earlier post that local co. will find ways to circumvent FW ratio to increase their bottom line.Is that wrong??? absolutely not,is it ethical??? that’s left to be seen as LKY advocates that a minimum salary for Singaporeans would mean non competitiveness.
Moral of story for ITE/Olevel or less fortunate??? “HEADS YOU WIN & TAILS I LOSE”
Lets look at crux of the issue.Why can’t the government implement a minimum salary for Singaporeans and increase the FT/FW ratio.Once the ratio is met for Singaporean min.salaried workers, the companies can employ all the FT/FW they need.Its a win-win situation.Again I repeat will the companies Local & Foreign adhere to this without thinking ways to circumvent to cut cost??? will LKY agree to a minimum wage for Singaporeans??? YES, over his dead body???
“Instead of saving on labor costs, they will have to innovate to increase their productivity with the local workforce they have.”
what’s stopping them from saving on labour cost AND innovating to increase the productivity of the cheaper foreign workers so that their profit margin becomes even larger?
or more importantly, should they be stopped from doing so?
i and my family will NOT buy anything from Courts again.
15% rich (base on landed property), 20% lower income (the poor)
MIW get 60% of votes at GE.Middle income citizen supported MIW.
The poor dont deserve their attention.
“With a higher pay and standard of living, Singaporeans will be inclined to have more children, thereby boosting our birth rate and decreasing our perennial dependence on foreigners.”
the causal link that higher pay and standard of living will result in more Singaporeans having more children. people in my grandparents generation had a lot more children. yet my parents earned a lot more than they did. before one starts screaming that this is because of LKY’s population policy then, this phenomena is generally true in many developed countries. even in India. more well to do families in fact tend to have less children than those who are not so well to do.
so the relationship between income and number of children one has appears to be an inverse one. of course this is stupid logic. i don’t think income is the sole determining (and perhaps not even a major) factor resulting in people not having more children. societal values play a far bigger role.
This is really getting more absurd. They are really damn smart indeed.
Please continue making the foreigners richer and us Singaporeans “fussier” by increasing the bills, HDB “affordable” and the list goes on and on and on………………
Those people use the SGD salary and can buy a bungalow back in their country. We’re all still struggling for A CHANCE to choose an “affordable” HDB flat, and still have to pay it off till we’re 50 plus. Totally doesn’t make sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
//rc
Time series data is not a good econometric approach to investigating this relationship, because the key factor is whether increasing income at present would increase the birth rate as well, and not how the birth rate has evolved over time. What we need is cross-sectional data that compares the number of children borne by Singaporean couples and incomes at different age groups, ethnicities, education levels, and so on.
I don’t have any of this data, but based on anedoctal evidence, I do believe there is a weak causal relationship between incomes and birth rate.
Let’s start a facebook group to boycott Courts.
I recalled year ago in China, some foreign supermart pissed the chinese off so much that ALL CHINESE in CHINA boycott the supermart for a week until the supermart issued an apology.
Expect the same in Sinkapore? Please lar, Sinkaporeans are as loose as the xiaojie in China.
Boycott Courts? Tsk Tsk
A big thank to people provide this information. I will stop buying things from COURTS and only buying thing from companies that create employment for our own people.
Dear Singaporeans
1. Let Courts come out with a clear honest statement regarding this recruitment effort and explain to Singaporeans why they are doing this.
If they fail to do so, then we must boycott them. Send them a clear signal that Singapore is for Singaporeans. If they want to profit from Singaporeans, they must reciprocate in kind as well. It is not going to be a one-way street from now on.
2. Workers must ask and pressure their union leaders for an explanation for the discrimination. Union leaders likewise must pressure NTUC for an explanation. NTUC leaders must lead by example.
3. Retrenched workers must immediately demand that their union leaders do something for them. They must see their MPs and register their unhappiness. They must also go to the Manpower Ministry to register their complaints.
4. Let us ask NTUC – Lim Boon Heng, Lim Swee Say, Halimah Yacob if thy are aware of this recruitment exercise and policy by Courts.
If so, what actions are they taking against Courts as employers.
If no, they must explain to the workers why they are not aware it. Unless of course all this talk of tripartite-ism is rubbish.
If they cannot explain either, then our workers must boycott the unions by withholding subscription and then resigning from their unions as a final solution.
5. Ministry of Manpower must explain why Courts discriminate in their recruitment effort and what action they are taking against Courts. Unfortunately we are unable to do anything to this Ministry.
6. We then must ask PM Lee and MM Lee for an explanation. If they “talk cock” then we start a campaign to get workers to get militant and go on strike if necessary. Workers must take the unions back from the PAP.
7. Lastly, let us vote PAP out of office.
Its sad, so sad,
such a sad sad situation
and its getting more and more absurd…
its sad, so sad
Why can’t we talk it over
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
Elton John
I must congratulate TR for the excellent reporting.
The problem does not lie with Courts…..the problem lies with PAP !!!
PAP has fed companies here unlimited cheap foreign labour for too long. It has become addictive like heroin.
@Kenna Sai you really kenna sai, why need such long list. Just point#7, vote the PAP out and all the above are unnecessary.
Dear People,
I think the problem is that the Government tacitly allows this sort of ultra-capitalistic behaviour. The Government wants to reduce the cost of business and attract more investments. Unfortunately – they have gone too far by allowing businesses to hire foreigners at lower wages – thus making it unattractive for businesses to employ Singaporeans. As for our Unions – they are just mouthpieces of the Government.
The way I see it – this is what happens in a one-party state. It is only when the ordinary people have political power via a strong Opposition – that we can keep the Government in check. As it is – what is happening today should be chronicled as a reminder to future generations of the dangers of a one-party system.
Regards
Dr Syed Alwi
Actually you could get rid of this type of third world foreigners easily regardless of whether you vote out PAP or not. Since 80% of the affected working class Singaporeans are also HDB flat lessees, they should just increase the subletting rent to foreigners by 100% to 300%. If we can’t beat them due to lower wages, we force them to join us with the same high cost of living of Singaporeans. The Government had already fire the first salvo by increasing their childrens’school fees:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1026209/1/.html
I can only think of so many advantages and no disadvantage at all for Singaporeans by raising the rental fees for foreigners:
1. So far the relentless influx of foreigners only benefited the PAP, civil servants (stable job & high salary) and employers (low business cost and more profits). The ordinary working class loses out. Raising rental fee by at least 100% will ensure that the working class Singaporeans can benefit from the influx of foreigners too.
2. When the foreigners’ cost of living is increased in Singapore, they can no longer accept third world standard of salary in Singapore. When they asked for Singapore standard of salary, who do you think the employer will employ? The Singaporean or the foreigner? So you see, raising the rental fees for foreigners is the real solution to create jobs for Singaporean PMETs.
3. HDB now require every subletting case to be reported within 7 days. Failure to comply means a fine of up to $3000 for first offender and compulsory acquisition of your flat for repeat offender. It is only right that we increase the rental for the extra administrative work and risk involved.
4. No Singaporean would complain about the extra income.
5. It is entirely logical, practical and legal to increase the rental. The rental is a private agreement between owner and tenant and the owner is free to decide his own fate by increasing the rental appropriately. The foreigner problem can also be solved by giving an alternative to those Singaporeans who are afraid to vote out the PAP.
Why is Courts not working with NTUC, grassroots organizations and also Malay organizations? Noticed that Courts Spore hire quite a number of Malay frontline retail staff as they do get a regular flow of Malay patrons. I believe these Malays are our own citizens, so why has Courts changed this policy?
boycott courts
dun buy from courts
usually assistant accountants can earn 2.1k but now Courts “spoilt” the market
lowering accountants’ pay to as low as 1.3k
omg
in the future,
can we singaporeans still survive?
NOW WE COULD NOT AFFORD A HDB.
KNN
Yes sir, I stand contrite and repentant.
When I was in business school, I had a lecturer in communications and his motto is: “Be precise. Be concise. And always exercise.” I have not forgotten.
But you see, when I am scolding the PAP I become “cheong hei” or “lor so” so I beg indulgence. You’ll understand !
Yes, let us vote them out. Anon and Amen.
No shit, I will definitely boycott courts from now on.
Will this be reported in the msm? I will take it as my duty to inform all my friends & colleagues by mouth.
Boycott them. They have gone too far. !!!
And even more importantly, vote for change.
All the talkf rom rich fat bosses and the elites is a cover-up for their unsatiated greed.
In the name of cost-cutting,they pretensiously claim ‘fair global competition”…fair?
to whom is it fair? …the fairness of it all is to cover for rewarding themselves with even more big fat bonuses from the so-called cost savings.
The world needs wise leaders not shrewd leaders;be it in buisness or in running the lives of others.
Not only Courts, there are also MNCs such as Seagates and some wafer fab factories only wanted to employ M’sians as they are cheaper than Singapore!
TR should look into the so called major GDP contributor industrial players. Mostly these production opr are malaysians because their quotas on foreign workers are special; higher than other companies.
Agreed with Dr Syed Alwi.
It is the government who is responsible and encourage these outrageous behaviours. All of us can simply boycott Courts and other firms which jeopartise our welfare but unfortunately we can’t boycott government by not paying tax.
The only solution: ‘change!’.
@Lehmanbrothers,
i agree with your point. as i mentioned in my comment, i think that the ‘correlation’ and causal link that i’ve suggested is nonsense logic.
from my own anecdotal experience, it appears that the more people earn, the fewer children they have…
What to do?
LKY already told the world that we Singaporeans are lazy…
We really need FT.
All this is very bad (guess where I borrowed this line from).
If this is true, I think the government has to really answer how something like this will help singaporeans. How can we get this printed in the msm?
Actually the message from government is very clear.
Your survival is your business.
Frankly there is nothing wrong with that, but when locals are saddled with competitive disadvantages we have a right to feel aggrieved.
The only thing we can do is vote with our wallet.
Perhaps a buy Singaporean campaign would be well received?
TR should engage with Courts on their “official explanation” on this matter
Grim Reaver on Fri, 15th Jan 2010 10:26 pm
“….Will this be reported in the msm? I will take it as my duty to inform all my friends & colleagues by mouth…..”
just need to add the TR link in an email and send the email to as many Singaporeans as possible so that more Singaporeans know what is really happening.
For those Singaporeans who are employed and still couldn’t care less about voting for PAP blindly……. think again you may be affected in the future if you don’t act now
I would like to see how the gov’t response to this come 18th Jan.
Courts took advantage of this F/ts approval….however, it is our Gov’t that “encourages it”.
Look how “Blatantly defying our Policy makers are”…even when we are expressing our concerns, “Peacefully”.
Looks like…WE ARE TRANSPARENT …or WORST…NON EXISTENCE !!
HELL TO THEM !!!
I have applied to Courts previously, but never received any reply.
People, simply e-mail the TR link to..
a. All your friends and family – not just unfair or lopsided reporting, there is actually proof that a megastore (that creates a lot of jobs) is doing this…
There has to be critical mass…start the mass e-mail links.
b. Courts HR Dept – let them explain about why they are doing this…I am very interested in their reply
c. To the relevant civil servants, MPs and our leaders in PAP
d. Yes, boycott buying from COURTS is one idea but not the best since if they suffer they will take it out on the local born and bred staff.
It is sad, it is no longer good enough to be productivity and high valued. Now the real value is to be cheap, cheap and be dirt cheap.
Dear Singaporeans
Please send this complete article with the readers’ comments to all your friends. Please tell your friends to re-send the article to as many of their friends as possible. I have just done so.
Let us bring Courts to its knees now by boycotting them. Then let us see the Government’s reactions.
Editor – please send this article to the Government ministers. You can get the email addresses of the MPs under “Singapore Parliament”.
Readers should bombard their MPs with this complete article and comments as well.
To my Singaporean brothers and sisters –
a. Please post your ideas on the next steps on Termesek Review if the government fails to give us the appropriate response.
b. I have just made a small token donation of S$10.00 to Temasek Review. Please do so through Pay Pal to keep the work going.
c. Singaporeans unite – Indians, Malay, Eurasians, Chinese, Indian-Chinese, Malay-Chinese, Eurasian- Chinese, etc. We are oppressed brothers and sisters.
SINGAPORE FOR SINGAPOREANS!!!
Courts? Expensive sh*t. Buy elsewhere better.
OPEN LETTER TO EMPLOYEES OF COURTS
Dear Employees of Courts and our fellow Singaporeans
We are sorry to advocate boycotting Courts with regard to their recent recruitment drive for Malaysian workers.
We know that if this action is carried to its extreme, it would mean that you may loose your jobs and that your families would suffer.
Please pressurize your employers to:
a. abandon the trecruitment exercise;
b. apologize to Singaporeans;
c. come clean with a honest explanation (even if it is unfavourable e.g. cheaper to employ Malaysians); and
d. undertake to be fair in all policies in future including employment.
The boycott action is not targeted at you Courts employees. We are also not against Malaysians. It is about fairness and discrimination.
Finally we have to think Singaporeans first and Singapore second.
I just don’t know what is wrong with some of these Singaporeans. And I don’t think I am not wrong in saying that they behave like spoilt kids from rich families. They are picky, selfish and greedy.
I’m sure Court must have plenty of bad experience with Singapore workers for them to look for Malaysian workers. Personally, I like the Malaysians. To me, they’re still my brothers,sisters and good friends even though we’re from two sovereign countries run by two different governments for the last 48 years. Our culture is similar, our food is similar and even our English language accent is similar, in fact, our values are about the same.
The top scorer in our recent public exam comes from Malaysia and two out of three doctors in our hospitals were born in Malaysia as reported here in TR. Many of our engineers and business people are also Malaysians or ex Malaysians. And many of our past and present politicans were born there as well.
These guys appreciate our generousity and are very hard working. They have tasted Apartheid and are treated as 2nd class citizens in their own country of birth when their government would accept Muslims born elsewhere, esp. Indonesians, as first class citizens. In fact, we’re the beneficiary of the Malaysian govt’s racial policy. We don’t have to pay for their education and we get their best, the Chinese and the Indian kids. And if ever there is a war(God forbids) between our two countries, I would say they would root for us.
I say, let them come, the more, the merrier lah. At least in our country, they can call God, Allah and their churches or temples won’t get torched, stoned or vandalized.
Assalmaulaikum!
Lame post.
Court’s recruitment drive stems clearly from a commercial viewpoint – maximize profits and minimize costs. If someone is to be blamed – it should be Courts – *”worming” its way through a labour+legal loophole and trying its best to $benefit$ itself, at the expense of Singapore* – milking Singaporeans’ money with MINIMAL contribution back to the society.
Please do not try to “politicise” any tom-dick-harry issues.
By the way – I do not agree with this.
“temporarily by importing large numbers of cheap foreign labour, but we will soon lose our competitive edge once our neighbours like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam catch up with us.”
We should not view our ASEAN neighbours’ progress in a negative light – rather we should be joyful. Global economics are filled with major players, in order to survive and thrive – we have to combine our resources and compete as a region (i.e. EU, East Asian, etc…). The trick is to both promote the growth of ASEAN and transition from working HARD, to working SMART – hence consistent innovation and leading ASEAN’s progress – i.e. the “brain” of the body.
Singaporeans in general, worked VERY hard – but not many – worked VERY smart – that’s the difference.
Despite FT policies,
Despite more than a million new citizens + PRs have come in within last few years,
Despite wages under competition with 3rd world foreigners,
Despite rising Costs even during financial crisis,
Despite not knowing the cost of construction of HDB flat such that they continue to wonder what is meant by generous subsidy,
Despite the LOSSes and Boo Boos, such that they do not really know what goes on,
Despite the Mini Bon fiascos,
Despite Seah Fock Song fiasco,
Despite Talk to my unbeautiful face,
Despite Mere Mortal combats
Despite so many Zeroes,
Despite changes in CPF schemes,
Despite PRs helping to inflate the prices,
Despite so many other things,
singaporeans, the majority, clearly shows they do not QUESTION publicly the policies.
So, what Word best describes the above?
As mere mortal , i can only suggest : APATHY.
Who is counting the v?
this is definitely not the kind of environment i want to live in ideally.
But then i do not have the choice.
I not sure why singaporeans continue to accept.
anyone knows?
they too shy to speak up?
like a newly married woman from the olden days of ching dynasty?
If Courts had placed the same advert for the same positions in the Spore media, then its OK, BUT if they have DELIBERATELY chosen not to but went straight ahead to place adverts in Malaysia ignoring the Spore citizens labor pool blatantly, then its a big no no for Courts.
Big companies like SIA recruit cabin crew from all around Asia but they do PLAY FAIR. They advertise all over the local press and also in Malaysia. SIA does not play hidey games where Spore citizens are ignored.
Come on Courts, play the fair game!
There are two issues here
First what is the gahmen’s stand on this, do they support or encourage this, if so what are we the citizens of Singapore going to do about it when the time comes for us to decide if we want them to remain in-charged. If they do not support this fine, what exactly are they going to do and by when?
Second, Courts, if this company dont give a damn about its customers it wants to reap profits from, why on earth do we want to enrich its pockets by buying its products. We should react with our most powerful weapon which is our wallets. Stop buying stuff from Courts full stop.
IF i am a singaporean businessman given such policies,
I would enjoy it.
I would try to cut cost as humanly possible as i can so that i can get a porsche carrera 4 for my mistress who complains to me i no luv her anymore and she refuses to go d on me.
so, IF i am a businessman, i would hire these, cheaper.
injoy your retirement which you accept.
Courts SUX anyway. I will boycott them.
Dear Singapore workers,
Being praised in the past as a force to be reckoned with, today you are not wanted.
Some say you are not able to match up to others.
You are considered to be less hard driving and hard striving and foreign companies are no longer attracted to invest in Singapore because of you. They are still here because of our free for all labor policies. Stop them from employing foreigners, they will wind up and shipped up. What to do Singapore without these investments will sink to the bottom of the sea, hence you lousy Singapore workers better watch out?
In short you are not wanted at all.
Good luck.
Regards,
Kind of laughable when I read the comments.
This is because when the time comes to face the PAP politicians or to vote them out to show your displeasure, majority would just keep quiet and play dumb, like nothing is wrong.
And the best you can do is degenerate the Foreigners? Because you know the foreigners won’t complain or fight back, unlike the PAP who will sue you or threaten to jail you. What Bigots!!!
It would be interesting when the next GE comes. The same people who complain will probably vote PAP again and for what? For a clean estate and shiny new lifts, so you can sell your HDB flat for a better price?
incredulous
Agree with you too many people just enjoy complaining but chicken out when it comes to the time to decide, a fair number dont even get the chance to go the ballot also.
However this time around I sense it is going to be different, not that Papaya gang will be voted out but they really made too many mistakes and behaves like we are all idiots my guess is that they are going to loose like they have never ever seen before but not enough to put them out of power.
To those who are really fed up dont just talk act as well.
by hiring cheaper FT, i hope they can drop their prices or it doesn’t make any sense
Citizens, boycott Courts.
Hysterical responses by people who don’t know the headaches of running a business in Singapore. I also hope the same people are willing to pay for 15%-20% for their electrical appliances which a wholly Singapore-staffed would entail.
Dear PAP Supporters,
The PAP is wrong when they depress labor costs by allowing the influx of cheap, foreign labor. The way forward is to pressure companies into making productivity gains that can lower business costs.
Whats the point of having MNC’s etc set up business in Singapore – BUT – having them employ only foreigners and not Singaporeans ? Might as well they don’t set up shop in Singapore because their presence does not benefit Singaporeans ! Without a meaningful employment – Singaporeans simply CANNOT afford the high cost of living in Singapore. Singapore may be pretty – but for whom ? Not Singaporeans !
Allowing the influx of cheap, foreign labor is NOT they way forward because ONLY the companies benefit and NOT Singaporeans. Lets not forget that there are also SOCIAL and POLITICAL implications of a large presence of foreign workers.
Productivity gains – is the way forward.
Regards
Dr Syed Alwi
Doing business in Singapore is never cheap. Rental took up a large chunk of the overhead. Therefore, employers will need to reduce costs and hiring FT with lower wages is one option in order to sustain their business. Why is rental so expensive in Singapore, this question we need to ask PAPies.
I don’t think it would do any one of us good by just complaining in TR.
Jus like the Miss Ang case abt Molest and Minister Yeo Facebk..unless some concrete evidence is produce…all your voices are going to be ignored.
I would like to suggest to TR ( if they could kindly do so ), to be an INTERMEDIARY for ALL TRUE BLUE SINGAPOREANS who have lost jobs and/or are looking for jobs.
All True Blue SG just sent an e-mail or resume to TR.
TR just “Collate” and “Monitor” and Compile.
TR then sent all these APPLICANTs or TRUE BLUE Job Seekers Application to CDCs.
Lets see how they “Tackle” and find jobs for these lot of unemployed SGreans.
With this ” Controlled” Datas,…at least the “TRUTH” of the situation can be “Verified”.
It benefits all Parties…Jobless Sgs, Pro and Opp CZs.
How about considering this move?
Yes boycott Courts !
Hi JL, according to one example posted in the comments above, an account assistant used to bring in $2100 but now Courts is only offering $1300.
If a wholly Singapore staffed company means that the accounts assistant’s monthly pay is $2100, then I am sure that accounts assistant would be able to pay 15-20% more for the appliance.
With the “Controlled” environment as suggested above…we can further proceed with other datas gathered, ie why successful…or why not successful ?
What was the salary offered ?
These datas and info can easily be “extrapolated” and linked to Cost of Living, HDB prices…etc.
These are infomation ( True Grd infomation) that we need to really understand and gather from ground response.
They are also “Bullets” good for “Debunking”….unjustified truths or claims made by PAPs.
Notice how certain issues…when we chase for datas..they kept quiet or ignore ?..ie Cost of building HDB.
Well…when it comes to Job seeking….collation of datas is simple …but an “effective” tool for “Challenges” ahead.
Especially, the coming GE.
Hi Papsmear,
That’s a good idea. Readers are most welcomed to share with us their personal experience of looking for a job in Singapore or their companies employing FTs to fill positions which locals can fill and we will spin a story out of it.
TR, thks for yr response.
i am however refering to TR specifically to “SPIN” a section with the following Headlines:
To all Unemployed SGs or Fresh SG Grads , you are kindly invited to submit your resume and out TR ,T&C forms.
We at TR, will collate your info and send your request to relevant Gov’t Dept ( CDC or WDAa ),to help secure or arrange an interview for you.
This is a “Citizen job Assistance and Nation Serving” exercise. Its intention are Twofolds.
a) Foremost and top priority – to help you secure a job.
b) To collect data in return – to investigate Job market profile, salary offered to local,type of jobs offered and or avaliable to specific age/skills,duration taken for a successful match..etc.
ALL TRUE BLUE SINGAPOREANS are welcome to particpate in this new service. Its a Win , Win for all.
….something to this extend ….faham???
NTUC recently said that we need to be ‘cheaper, better, faster’. Now I know what they mean. Young & expensive Singaporeans will lose out to young & cheaper foreigners. Old & cheap Singaporeans will lose out to young & faster foreigners. Overall, it’s a better strategy for companies because it’s a win-win situation for them to make more money. So why is more foreigners working here in the first place?
Owner and founder of Courts is not even Singaporean to begin with, what makes you think he will bother with Singaporeans KPKB on the internet about his hiring policies?
The way the CEO sees it, it won’t make a diff if he hired a Filipino to be his HR director if he’s happy with the qualifications…or the cup size, or whatever criteria he deems fit. More importantly, if hiring that person can drive his costs significantly lower as opposed to hiring a local, it’s a bonus.
Court’s main line of business is CREDIT-LENDING, not furniture retail, BTW.
On a seperate note, I thought I saw the blurb for this story somewhere about local “MNC” hiring foreign workers. In my opinion, Courts is not an MNC– an MNC needs to derive more than a quarter of its revenue from overseas operations, and I don’t think Courts is there. It’s a local “large company” yes, but MNC status, I think Terry O’Connor better be more humble.
Yes, I will boycott those companies hiring only FW. Companies like Levis … now Courts
well guys, if you do your own research, stuff in Courts is overpriced. get it from local dealers.
about the hiring of foreign workers, it’s just not fair to locals…so what do foreign companies do…? build a HQ office in sg, and then hire foreigners…they break the productivity structure like this to get even more savings. the govt must have overlooked this when they changed this policy.
for me, i’ll just carry on having this measly 800 bucks per mth salary and try to live on it…
I’m not going to visit Courts anymore.
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I have not gotten anything from courts for a while. I still prefer shopping in BEST denki! After reading this article, i am sure my preferences with BEST is right
Frankly national service made many singapore guys into wussies and pussies….
the problem is that the wussies and pussies remember who made them into this…
and to those we remember, if you ever call us out to go against the people of singapore….well….are you feeling lucky?
You have pushed us too far. YOU GODDAMN GREEDY PIGS!!!
I wonder have they ever tried to find any singaporeans for such vacancies before having to get them from JB.
Did the TR Editors sent an email to Courts on this issue?
My wife lost her job in Nov last year. A friend of hers recommended her to work at Gain City as a Retails Sales Assistant. I was shocked to find out that Gain City only offered her basic of $800. That’s why S’poreans are not interested to take up such jobs.
Dear fellow SBBS (Singapore Born & Bred Singaporeans). If you’re looking for employment, S’pore is not the place anymore. If you do not have the means to migrate, you will have to squeeze your creative juices to come out with a small business be it which ever trade your’re in.
We shall wait for the day to come when we will kick the pappies’s ass real hard during the G.E.
wah! they really cannot find the right candicate here? or there is no one who wants the job offered by them????…. i guess people can see the truth of the company just by looking at the way they advertise for job… no local wants the job as such they need to recruit elsewhere… locals do not believe in them … so by going overseas are they able to pay lesser? can’t they employ locals and pay higher… but then i know their pay packages is not fantastic at all… yes we should boycott COURTS!!!! just full of craps….
Just boycott until Courts Furniture can guaranteed that 99% employment reserved for Singaporean for both retail and office.
Courts hires cheap labour so that saving can pass to u and give u the lowest price ok?