Tiada sekatan pekerja Sabah dan Sarawak

Kementerian Tenaga Manusia Singapura (MOM) kelmarin berkata tiada sekatan dikenakan terhadap pekerja dari Sabah dan Sarawak untuk bekerja di republik itu.

“Kami terus meluluskan permit kerja untuk pekerja dari Sabah dan Sarawak yang didapati layak dan sesuai bekerja di Singapura,” katanya dalam kenyataan yang dikeluarkan melalui Suruhanjaya Tinggi Singapura di sini.

Katanya seperti negara lain, termasuk Malaysia, rakyat asing diwajibkan memenuhi kriteria tertentu untuk layak bekerja di Singapura.

Kementerian itu berkata ia mengetatkan kriteria berhubung pengambilan dan pengekalan tenaga kerja asing sejak beberapa tahun lepas untuk memperlahankan pertumbuhan tenaga kerja asing dan bagi menggalakkan pertumbuhan berasaskan produktiviti.

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Foreign Minister talks over Singapore labour ban

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman will meet with his Singapore counterpart K. Shanmugam to discuss the ban on Sabahan and Sarawakian natives below 35 years from working in the republic.

Anifah said he was planning a one-day working visit to seek the reasons for the ban on workers from the two states. Anifah said he was surprised by the ban but had yet to receive any report on it. “I have to find the reason for the sudden implementation of the policy. “If it is because of one or two bad apples, then we can discuss it and find a solution,” he added. He said he would also discuss the move with the Human Resources Ministry.

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Sabahan workers in Singapore, not entirely to be blamed

Sabahan workers in Singapore who were involved in crime are not entirely to be blamed, said Assistant Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Jainab Ahmad. She said some found themselves in desperate situations after being cheated by unscrupulous employment agents.

“These agents promised youths from Sabah’s rural areas high paying jobs in Singapore but they ended up working for far less,” said Jainab. “Some have tried to extricate themselves from their contracts or had to take another job just to pay off these agents,”

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