On 2 Jan 1992, Dr Lee Boon Yang relinquished his posts as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and took on the appointment of Minister for Labour, retaining his portfolio as Second Minister for Defence. On 12 May 2003, he relinquished the Manpower portfolio to serve as the Minster for Information, Communications and the Arts.
Dr Ng Eng Hen was Minister of State, Education and Manpower in 2002. He took over Acting Minister for Manpower on 12 May 2003. Then on 12 Aug 2004, he became Minister for Manpower & Second Minister for Education and on 1 July 2005, he was Minister for Manpower & Second Minister for Defence.
From Labour Market 2005, if we deduct 10% for PR from Singaporean of the overall table, and added to foreigners, we could see the 10 years trends in Sinapore.
Over the period from 1995 to 2005, slightly more than 50% of the jobs goes to Singaporean(excluding PR) and 50% goes to foreigners. The latter tended to concentrate in construction industry and also manufacturing industry. The reasons mainly due to tough work environments and 8 or 12 hours shift rotation.
From the table, we could see more foreigner entering in the job market from 1995 to 2001(under Dr Lee Boon Yang), but lesser from 2002 to 2005.(under Dr Ng Eng Hen).
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i fail to see the reason why you made the posting ;p Dr Lee Boon Yang was made fun of because of the unequal sizes of his eyes ;p
it was for references only..
did some calculation and data may be incorrect. just to see the 10 years trend of the job market in singapore..cheers!
The job market will always move in tandem to the economy. When the economy is doing well, naturally more jobs will be available. When the economy is languishing, fewer jobs would be available and unemployment would go up too. I think Dr Ng Eng Hen has done a good job so far as Minister for Manpower. But he's blessed too to be in such a position when the economy is picking up and the job market is improving accordingly.
it was a tough job...and we could see the end result: lots of white hairs..:(
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