Hello everyone, I am Dr Tan Cheng Bock, Chairman of Progress Singapore Party. I would like to spend a moment to share with you our serious concerns about a bill that will be tabled for second reading and likely passed as law in Parliament soon. This is the Foreign Interference Counter measures Act or FICA.
Justice is in the heart of the People – I come to this House to respond to a challenge by Minister Shanmugam to debate on CECA. He has been puzzling me because it was in reference to his remarks made on a racial incident, which has nothing to do with CECA.
In GE2020, PSP’s election manifesto had a component called “Jobs for Singaporeans”. It consists of job priority for Singaporeans, the introduction of a quota for Employment Pass and a lower quota for S Pass.
Mr Speaker, Sir, Of all the free trade agreements that we have signed with other countries, the Singapore-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, or CECA, has attracted the most attention for two reasons. Firstly, it contains a clause in Article 9.5 granting entry to persons in 127 professions, which is not found in the other free …
The balance in maintaining an open economy and foreign manpower: Hazel in Parliament Read More »
FOREIGN TALENT POLICY: That this Parliament calls upon the Government to take urgent and concrete action to address the widespread anxiety among Singaporeans on jobs and livelihood caused by the foreign talent policy and the provisions on Movement of Natural Persons in some free trade agreements like the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement. Mr Speaker Sir, …
More Singaporean PMETs are employed, but the larger number of foreign workers engender challenges by Toh Han Shih Currently, there is intense debate on the influx of foreign workers of the Professional, Manager, Engineer and Technician (PMET) class into Singapore. Some argue that the inflow of large numbers of PMETs take away jobs from locals. …
