Originally posted by QX179R:Josephine Teo on employment of foreigners as bus drivers
SINGAPORE : Minister of State for Finance and Transport, Josephine Teo, on Friday addressed concerns about the employment of foreigners as bus drivers.
Speaking in Parliament, Mrs Teo said it is increasingly difficult to recruit Singaporeans as bus drivers, due to rising career aspirations.
She said this is due to rising educational attainments and rising career aspirations. Other industries, including the construction sector, have also begun to offer better remuneration and better working conditions.
About 280 locals are hired as bus drivers each year, compared to 800 foreigners.
They are primarily from Malaysia and China.
About 1,000 drivers, or 14 per cent of the driver pool, leave each year.
Mrs Teo said: "I think we must also realise that there is a difference between the terms of employment for locals as well as the foreigners. Foreigners are here on contract. So some of them, at the end of the contract, they leave the service. And they are also counted within that 1,000.
"So if you were to look purely at the rates of attrition, then it would seem that the attrition is higher amongst the foreigners. But a large part of it is because they have completed their contracts."
- CNA/ms
And so i wonder, where do we find people to staff the 800 additional buses to be on the roads?
Originally posted by Bus Stopping:And so i wonder, where do we find people to staff the 800 additional buses to be on the roads?
I think SBST will defintely find a way, because when all 800 are on the roads, there will be enough drivers that time.
Originally posted by Gus.chong:I think SBST will defintely find a way, because when all 800 are on the roads, there will be enough drivers that time.
Have u read the article quoted by QX179R before replying? The net increase of drivers is only about 80 per year. (+80 per year)
The entire driver pool is about 7000 people, and with 20% increase of buses we need 1400 new bc within 5 years. (+280 per year)
Another lame excuse to recruit more Chinaman and accuse Singaporeans choosy,Standard reply from almost all local company
But seriously, you hear from the older Singkie... You would know the choosy is over shift work...
Tat's seriously the price to pay for clockwork... There's no slip short work to it, and tat's reality.
Yea yea they surely got thousand bloody reasons one.Not surprised