Ministry of Manpower An alternative to the Fair Employment Framework?
The govt sets up the Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) in 2014 to help locals get employment. Under this framework, an employer has to advertise a job opening in the designated Job Bank for a certain period before applying to the MOM to employ a foreigner. 

Many people have observed that this framework is not working. If the employer wants to employ a foreigner for any reason, they will comply with the FCF requirement and reject any local who has applied. They will chose to employ a foreigner anyway.

Here is a post submitted by Simon Lim.

The MOM has placed 500 employers on a watchlist for failing to do enough to hire, groom locals. See this report.

The FCF is clearly not working. It is a farce. Yet the Ministry of Manpower continues to flog this dead horse.

What can be done to help locals get jobs?

Here are my views:

a) Raise the salaries for the designated jobs to a level that is attractive to locals and is sufficient for them to raise a family.

b) Give a wage subsidy to small companies to meet the higher wage cost. This subsidy can be for 12 to 24 months.

If employers find locals to be not more expensive to employ, they are likely to prefer locals for various other advantages.

Minister Teo - I hope you are listening.

Tan Kin Lian




 

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