Singaporeans Now a Minority in Our Own Workforce?

[FireOpal]

Singaporeans Now a Minority in Our Own Workforce?

🔎 The Numbers Don't Lie: The estimated percentage of non-native workers in Singapore's workforce has surged to 56.2% – and it's only going to get worse.

📉 Breakdown (as of Dec 2022):

🔹 38.5% Foreigners (Work Permit, S Pass, EP holders)

🔹 10.6% PRs

🔹 6.6% Citizens not born in Singapore

🔹 0.5% Citizens born as non-citizens

📊 Total Non-Native Workforce: 56.2% (Est.)

Yet, PAP tells us they are "tightening" foreign worker inflows. Why is MOM not giving a clear breakdown of locals vs. foreigners in official employment reports? What are they hiding?

And this is BEFORE the 2025 policy to open hiring of more foreign auxiliary police officers, across more countries!

The percentage of non-native workers will only rise further.

🛑 Singaporeans, ask yourself:

🔸 Are you seeing better job opportunities?

🔸 Are wages keeping up with the cost of living?

🔸 Do you feel like a priority in your own country?

💬 It's time to demand answers and real change. Share this and make your voice heard!

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[FireOpal]

Leong. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BK9L8fZRF/

Breaking news: Parliamentary debate - % of non-native S'poreans in workforce continues its relentless rise to 56.2% (est.)? 

"Tighter controls on lower-skilled foreign workers help boost employment for locals: Tan See Leng" (ST, Feb 27)

"Tighter controls on hiring lower-skilled foreign workers are more likely to prompt companies to recruit more locals, compared with tightening access to foreign workers who are higher-skilled, said Manpower Minister Tan See Leng on Monday.

This is because businesses were able to substitute lower-skilled but cheaper foreign workers with locals, and improve production processes accordingly

The finding is based on government impact assessment studies, which are carried out regularly on policies, including those related to the foreign workforce.

He added: "This has therefore informed our approach of remaining open to high quality foreign professionals, while maintaining a disciplined stance in regulating the number of work permit holders through quotas and levies."

More than 1.5 million foreigners help Singapore plug the manpower gap to run its US$400 billion ($540 billion) economy.

That is because its four million-strong resident population is a fraction of similar-sized economies in the region, such as Malaysia with 33 million and Vietnam with 99 million people.

"It is important that our policies enable firms to access foreign workers who complement the local workforce, so that the firms can grow and create more opportunities for locals," Mr Tan said.

He said proper calibration of the foreign manpower controls is necessary, as the tightening measures work only to a certain point before the outcomes turn negative.

"If you continue to tighten, it actually can have a worse-off effect for the development of our country in terms of the economic progress as well as industry developments," he said.

But given the small size of the population and the accelerating pace at which the global economic landscape is transforming, foreign professionals are needed to keep Singapore competitive.

"In terms of making sure that we are ahead of the competition, we will not just need to develop our own local talent, but we will also need foreign workers," he added."

Comment:

Let's cut the "mumbo jumbo" narrative, & go straight to the point - Let the numbers do the talking!

Strangely, there was no breakdown into residents & non-residents in the workforce, in the latest employment statistics (Dec 2022)
https://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/employment-Summary-Table.aspx

But a clue may have been given to us in today's Parliamentary debate - "More than 1.5 million foreigners help Singapore plug the manpower gap"

So, we can now try to estimate the non-resident workers as a percentage of the total workforce as at Dec 2022 - 38.5% (1,500,001 foreigners divided by 3,897,500 total workforce)

https://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/employment-Summary-Table.aspx

Breakdown of total workforce (est.):

38.5% foreign (1,500,001)
10.6% PRs (413,810)
51.1% citizens (1,983,689) 

49.1% (est.) non-S'porean (foreigners + PRs)

6.6% (est.) (13% x 51.1%) (13% citizen workforce not born in S'pore) (Parliamentary debate, Jul 2021)

0.5% (est.) (est.1% x 51.1%) (est. 1% citizen workforce born in S'pore as non-citizens) (6,959 non-citizen births in 2021 (38,672 total live-births - 34,183 resident live-births - 31,713 citizen births))
https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M810091

56.2% (est.) (38.5 + 10.6 + 6.6 + 0.5%) (non-native citizens in workforce (including citizens not born in S'pore & citizens born in S'pore as non-citizens))
#SGIssuesThatMatter

[jim889]

too bad sg only teksi driver, grab food

what else can do?
 

[Philipkee]

I wrote something like this in edmw

Trump impose tariffs to make Americans buy local
Edmwers - it's bad.  America has no manufacturing capability.  What if other countries tit for tat then how?

PAP doesn't impose any significant penalties in letting FT come into workforce
Same EDMWers - it's bad.  Singapore should build up our local talent pool.  Singapore first

So bottom line, a lot of us are selfish and we are not really "principled" but it's an issue of whether we are affected by it negatively

[Keeptrucking]

i think pap have decided that they are losing the votes of born and bred singaporeans, hence the need to make us the minority.

this is prob the biggest reason i can think of.

[Mummy1234]

i think pap have decided that they are losing the votes of born and bred singaporeans, hence the need to make us the minority.

this is prob the biggest reason i can think of.

In my cluster of about 10 doctors, already 3 are Malaysians.

[Nemesis Alien]

The problem is we want more FW, but not more FT.

You want to be sweeper? Clean toilet? ETC?

[Suntan]

Just by looking in offices.
90s, we have 1 or 2 jhks.
2000s, 1 0r 2 AT, pinoy, Myanmese...
Now inside only 1 or 2 sinkies.
Not outnumbered? Sinkies r blind.

[Risa]

foreigners out ! f all of them !

[Keeptrucking]

foreigners out ! f all of them !

actually the main problem is the pap's policies. these foreigners are just making use of them and other loopholes to take advantage, which is natural.

[FireOpal]

LHL the fucker so greedy for money that he can destroy the social fabric.

Remember the old NDP song Stand Up for Singapore?

Now all those has no meaning, who still love Singapore? PAP taking full advantages of Singaporeans by locking up our CPF, the guys do NS. Making BTO and health care expensive.

Foreigners come here for 10 years, remit alot of money home, they don't want to spend in Singapore, money flows to their country.
PRs JHKs, new citizens buy our flats hold for 15 yrs sell away make $xxx,000 profits they go home already has 1 landed and 1 condo.
Kumgong PAP supporters still say PAP very good.

[Suntan]

15 yrs ago when moi in regional office oredi the minority among the multinational (no pun intended) Liao. Hence watershed GE. Now ppl still bringing up. Nothing has changed.

[Joe Maya]

This is a true story, not a "CSB."

I was visiting a large multinational company and having lunch in their canteen when I overheard a conversation between two cleaning staff members. One of them mentioned that her friend wanted to join but was Malaysian. Before she could finish, the other immediately interrupted, saying that it wasn't possible because the quota required Singaporean workers.

That company, which many of you recognize, is filled with EDMW's favorites and also JHK.

Cleaners and security guards = Singaporean.
Good jobs = FT

[Nemesis Alien]

This is a true story, not a "CSB."

I was visiting a large multinational company and having lunch in their canteen when I overheard a conversation between two cleaning staff members. One of them mentioned that her friend wanted to join but was Malaysian. Before she could finish, the other immediately interrupted, saying that it wasn't possible because the quota required Singaporean workers.

That company, which many of you recognize, is filled with EDMW's favorites and also JHK.

Cleaners and security guards = Singaporean.
Good jobs = FT

On paper good jobs also singaporeans. Just not made in sg.