SINGAPORE: Eight occupations in social services, food services and air transport will open to work permit holders from more countries from September, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng announced on Tuesday (Mar 3).
The eight occupations are: babysitters or infant caregivers, educarers and teacher aides in social services; food preparers like butchers and fishmongers, food or drink stall assistants, kitchen assistants and waiters in food services; and cabin crew.
They will be added to a list of manufacturing and services jobs that can be filled by workers from what Singapore considers non-traditional sources, namely: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
This will allow businesses to hire higher-quality workers from these sources in specific non-professional, manager, executive and technician (PMET) roles with not enough locals, said Dr Tan.
Singapore’s typical sources of labour for manufacturing and services are Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan.
