Can Someone Decipher This...?
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NTUC chief warns of tightening labour market despite strong economy
By Dominique Loh and Wong Mun Wai, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 02 August 2007 2347 hrs
SINGAPORE: NTUC Chief Lim Swee Say warned that even with a strong economy, there are signs of a tightening labour market in Singapore.
Speaking at ST Aerospace's National Day Observance Ceremony, Mr Lim told workers that overcoming the manpower bottleneck will be a challenge.
However, he believed this challenge has also created opportunities such as higher productivity among low-wage workers and reemployment of retired workers to ease the labour market.
NTUC's Deputy Secretary-General Heng Chee How, who was at the ST Electronics' National Day Observance Ceremony, agreed and encouraged those who are not actively seeking jobs to enter the workforce to help stimulate economic growth. - CNA/ac -
Hmmm...I wonder which are the strong growth sectors?
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Originally posted by HyperFocal:
''Strong economy'' = ''tight labor market'' = ''challenge'' = ''new opportunities''.
NTUC chief warns of tightening labour market despite strong economy
By Dominique Loh and Wong Mun Wai, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 02 August 2007 2347 hrs
SINGAPORE: NTUC Chief Lim Swee Say warned that even with a strong economy, there are signs of a tightening labour market in Singapore.
Speaking at ST Aerospace's National Day Observance Ceremony, Mr Lim told workers that overcoming the manpower bottleneck will be a challenge.
However, he believed this challenge has also created opportunities such as higher productivity among low-wage workers and reemployment of retired workers to ease the labour market.
NTUC's Deputy Secretary-General Heng Chee How, who was at the ST Electronics' National Day Observance Ceremony, agreed and encouraged those who are not actively seeking jobs to enter the workforce to help stimulate economic growth. - CNA/ac
It is surprising that NTUC Sec-Gen Lim can only find new opportunites to challenge the minds of low-wage workers to achieving higher productivity, and for retired to workers to seek re-employment to ease the labor market ?
How much more productive does he expect from the low-wage workers already involved in menial work - given only two pairs of hands and legs and the rest of the body parts that make a person whole ?
The previous NTUC Sec-Gen had more courage to tell low-wage workers to upgrade and improve themselves to a higher-level and aim for a higher wage bracket.
A subject that Lim Swee Say has no courage nor authority to broach after the Government and the NTUC had changed the ground rules of employment in Singapore - from some semblance of ''permanent'' employment to one of ''short term renewal'' employment contracts.
In his usual long-winded wish-washy ways - Lim Swee Say is only as inspiring as his high pitched flubbing voice that is good only for kindergarten kids.
At least he would have sounded more convincing to the adults that the New Opportunities in resolving the ''tight labor situation'' is for the Government to open the gates to more foreign talents.
Why bother with the disguised efforts to draw out the retirees to seek further employment ?
Has the MIW not extracted enough during the Working Life of these Retirees ?
Does the MIW still need to extract the final remaining juices from the skin and shrivelled sinews of the retirees - even as the MIW refused to take responsibility for the Welfare of the Aged ..... after having decided all the ''how, where, why, when and what'' in the life time of all Singaporeans ? -
Honorable Atobe, that was one heck of a resounding and robust, decipher..!Originally posted by Atobe:''Strong economy'' = ''tight labor market'' = ''challenge'' = ''new opportunities''.
It is surprising that NTUC Sec-Gen Lim can only find new opportunites to challenge the minds of low-wage workers to achieving higher productivity, and for retired to workers to seek re-employment to ease the labor market ?
How much more productive does he expect from the low-wage workers already involved in menial work - given only two pairs of hands and legs and the rest of the body parts that make a person whole ?
The previous NTUC Sec-Gen had more courage to tell low-wage workers to upgrade and improve themselves to a higher-level and aim for a higher wage bracket.
A subject that Lim Swee Say has no courage nor authority to broach after the Government and the NTUC had changed the ground rules of employment in Singapore - from some semblance of ''permanent'' employment to one of ''short term renewal'' employment contracts.
In his usual long-winded wish-washy ways - Lim Swee Say is only as inspiring as his high pitched flubbing voice that is good only for kindergarten kids.
At least he would have sounded more convincing to the adults that the New Opportunities in resolving the ''tight labor situation'' is for the Government to open the gates to more foreign talents.
Why bother with the disguised efforts to draw out the retirees to seek further employment ?
Has the MIW not extracted enough during the Working Life of these Retirees ?
Does the MIW still need to extract the final remaining juices from the skin and shrivelled sinews of the retirees - even as the MIW refused to take responsibility for the Welfare of the Aged ..... after having decided all the ''how, where, why, when and what'' in the life time of all Singaporeans ?
I am sure, "some" would "beg" to differ...
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If you got one big amount of work to be completed, what you do?
Either you increase your speed, work OT and complete the work or you get more people (foreign or locals) to work with you and finish the work faster.
If not how? work not complete, business get affected, close shop and get unemployed. Then later go complain to govt that no more jobs for me to do. Or perhaps you use eye power and complete the job har. -
Originally posted by matleep:
What is the physical condition of workers who are already getting 'Low Wages' ?
If you got one big amount of work to be completed, what you do?
Either you increase your speed, work OT and complete the work or you get more people (foreign or locals) to work with you and finish the work faster.
If not how? work not complete, business get affected, close shop and get unemployed. Then later go complain to govt that no more jobs for me to do. Or perhaps you use eye power and complete the job har.
How much performance can you get from a car with only a 1000cc engine ?
How much juice can you force into a car with a gas tank that has a volumetric capacity of only 80 litres ?
Can a 1000cc car with an 80 litre gas tank - speed faster and go a further distance - in competition with a 2000cc car fitted with a 140 litre tank ?
If you want to compete with a bigger car with a bigger engine and tank, surely it is only logical that the smaller car be fitted with a similar size engine and fuel tank ?
I suppose you will want the smaller size car carrying only one passenger to go the distance with its light weight and despite its smaller gas tank - as compared to the bigger and heavier car ?
Why restrict the wage structure and employment terms that will lead the low-wage earner to an uncertain future ?
Can such a wage earner be driven to succeed when he does not even know what his future is ?
Surely, you have been through NS and understand that unless a Commander is able to inspire your spirit and able to look after your welfare that you are motivated to co-operate with your mates to achieve a common goal ?
Surely, you will expect the Commander to fulfill his part of the game after you and your mates have achieved the goals of the game that need to be accomplished ?
Is it not a shocking realisation for Singaporeans to have emerged from the uncertainties of the 1950s and 1960s, and to have supposedly accomplished First World Status after a 40 Year drive, only to be subjected to a revision to some Third World Employment Contracts and Wage Levels - while living in an environment with First World COSTS of Living and living standards close to the Third World ?