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Delays and stop-work orders because of COVID-19 shows this is the right time to re-think the way we do business, says labour economist, Kelvin Seah.
Heavy burden: Piling machines are seen operating at a construction site in Singapore. The barring of workers from South Asia has added to the manpower shortage in Singapore’s construction industry. — AFP SINGAPORE: A small army of about 380 construction workers should be hammering away as the luxury condominium Meyer House nears completion, but the shortfall in foreign labour has left the site with just 230 men on the job. Shortages are just one of the challenges facing main contractor Unison Construction as it strives to get the 56-unit block finished. Safe distancing measures mean that ...
5 Mar 2021 Hundreds of thousands of native British nursing candidates have been rejected over the past decade, while the government made it easier to bring in cheaper nurses from abroad, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed. The report, which was seen by Breitbart London, said that even during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic last year, over 23,000 British applications for nursing courses were rejected, despite the government offering 1,200 fast-tracked Health and Care Worker visas to foreigners during the same time. Since 2010, over half of the nearly 650,000 UK-based nursing course ...
KULAI: The foreign worker hiring freeze for the plantations and commodities sector will only be lifted after Malaysia successfully controls the Covid-19 pandemic, says Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali. The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister said that among the factors that would be taken into consideration are the ability of companies in providing lodging that will adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) on Covid-19. He said the government’s present policy in freezing the intake of foreign workers was also due to giving the priority to Malaysians first in the work...