70% of its over 8,000 staff are S'poreans, PRs says RWS
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SINGAPORE: Resorts World Sentosa said 70 per cent of its staff strength of over 8,000 are Singaporeans or Permanent Residents.
But some who've visited the gaming tables are questioning where exactly are they working?
Resorts World Sentosa said since it was awarded the integrated resort in 2006, it has remained committed to hiring Singaporeans as a first priority.
And it added it's been working closely with local universities, polytechnics and government agencies to hire and train Singaporean workers.
But 30 per cent of the jobs still went to foreigners.
Robin Goh, assistant director, Communications, Resorts World Sentosa, said: "There might be skill sets that are lacking in Singapore perhaps. For example jobs in casino and jobs within Universal Studios Singapore. And again, sad to say, it is also a challenge to find Singaporeans to pick up some jobs that they sometimes shun, for example jobs that have shifts."
Resorts World was not able to give a detailed breakdown on the proportion of locals to foreigners in the various jobs available at the integrated resort.
However, it said areas like administration, ticketing and admission, hotels and the Universal Studios theme park have a higher proportion of Singaporeans.
And it will continue to strive to employ more Singaporeans and PRs.
Mr Goh explained: "We're starting our chain of job fairs around Singapore and that will come online very soon."
The integrated resort is still looking to fill some 2,000 vacancies.
Meanwhile, the casino continues to attract huge crowds on the first work-day after the Lunar New Year holidays.
Although many locals are back at work, there are enough foreign visitors to ensure the gambling hall remains packed.
One tourist said: "We heard about it back in Australia. We planned to be here for the opening and that's why we're here to win!"
More than 60,000 people have visited the casino since it opened on Sunday.- 938LIVE/vm
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the answer is..
most are in the office.. HR dept...etc etc ~
casino most FT right.. told ya all liao pay $100 go in see FT
haha~
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70% are PRs and Singaporeans?
PRs and Singaporeans are 2 distinct group, don't mix and mingle them together, give us the figures for PRs and Singaporeans.
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Singapore citizen 60% of 70%.... Singapore PR 40% of 70% maybe?
That makes it only 42% Singapore citizen?
Haha.... Toilet cleaner Singaporean .. lol... Security guard Singaporean.... -
check with RWS directly
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of the 70%, 10% are Singapore Singaporean, 20% Offered Foreign Singaporean and 40% Give Away PR from China, India and Malaysia.
And the remaining 30% are given to Pending PR foreign working....soon they will claimed 100% operated by Singaporean with 90% could hardly speaks English...
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"Resorts World was not able to give a detailed breakdown on the proportion of locals to foreigners in the various jobs available at the integrated resort."
When CNA asked RW on the proportion of foreigners vs Singaporeans and PRs, It claimed that it was unable to provide the data.
Why unable to provide the data? Can anyone, in this computerised age, believes RW that the data is not ready or unavailable?
If the data is not ready or unavailable, how they know 70% of the workers are Singaporeans?
This speaks volume about the transparency of this organisation of which it promised to abide by in the first place, isn't it?