Calls for foreign worker measures to be eased

SBF hopes policymakers would pause the raising of foreign worker levy rates for a few years, remove age-differentiated S Pass salaries, and expand interim measures to allow for more foreign worker housing. — Reuters

SINGAPORE: To meet pent-up demand from the country’s post-pandemic reopening, the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) is hoping the government will ease foreign worker measures to provide “immediate” relief for businesses starved of labour, especially small and medium enterprises.

This comes as more than half of front-line workers here say their workload has piled up, contributing to almost a third of them thinking about quitting several times a month.