Staff strapped companies need more foreign workers?!

I was at a Fortune 100 company's spanky new premises at Mapletree Business City.
The corporate giant takes up 8 floors, just about half of that building tower.

Like most office buildings, you need to exchange for a visitor pass before proceeding.
The company has its own "security" on the ground floor.
What struck me was that it was manned by two... you guessed it... foreigners with their foreign names proudly displayed on tags.
They were young Filipino women.

I suppose if the weren't hired, then the company probably has to turn away visitors. And this company is so damn sure they absolutely cannot find a single Singaporean to do this job.

You step into Universal Studios and you will find that about half the staff there are foreigners.
The PAP, to justify the building of the Integrated Resorts (IR), said that jobs would be created for Singaporeans. Yet then Filipino President Gloria Arroyo proudly proclaimed they had secured 5,000 jobs for Filipinos at the IRs.

The difference cannot be more apparent in other countries. When the Hong Kong government built Disneyland, thousands of jobs were promised to locals.
And that they delivered. Walking around the park, you see that nearly all the cast members are Hong Kong citizens. Despite proximity to the Mainland, you hardly find any PRCs employed.

What is the evidence that Singaporeans are fussier than Hong Kongers?
After so many years of easy access to cheaper labour, have Singaporeans firms become too lazy to focus on employee welfare and retention?
If certain jobs are "shunned" by locals, is it because the pay is insufficient to maintain basic quality of life, one with long term commitments?
The foreigners displacing Singaporeans hail from developing countries with dismal track record of job creation. Philippines, India and China are struggling to create jobs.
It is not surprising that a second rate graduate who can't find a job back home would jump at a chance to work in Singapore in overqualified positions. You will find university graduates working in Metro, Starbucks and in frontline positions. They also take up administrative roles.

The lower salaries they are paid compared to Singaporeans is still alot better than no salary back home.
Most of them also don't have as many long term commitments like housing, raising children, taking care of elderly etc.

Our government must stop saying that Singaporeans are fussy. The onus is on them to encourage companies to make jobs reasonable to Singaporeans. The onus is on the government to implement a Minimum Wage to ensure locals are not exploited. Hiring and firing laws must skewed more towards employees.

Singaporeans have the right to demand better jobs because our Ministers are the highest paid in the world.
Lee Kuan Yew boasted in 2007 that Singapore is entering its "golden period".
Goh Chok Tong, another one of our psychic politicians, promised to achieve Swiss standard of living by the turn of the century.
You can't paint such rosy pictures without ensuring that quality of jobs keep improving.
Do you want a "first world" country where its citizens continue to be cleaners earning $450 a month?

So there's a fine line between being fussy and the right to proper jobs.
And we certainly don't need Angmos to tell us which is which.