An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
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Work permit levies are optimised to what can bring MOM maximum collection of revenues/ profit; little/ nothing to do with protecting Singaporean jobs

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The MOM knows that if it charges high levies for marine sector employees, the oil rigs that Sembcorp Marine, Kepple Offshore Marine builds locally for export etc will be overpriced and this internationally uncompetitive: thus it allows marine related companies to hire foreign work permit holders for a relatively lower levy (