Budget 2025: Retailers call for foreign worker levy cuts
An increase in the dependency ratio ceiling (DRC) and reduced foreign worker levies are among the measures that Budget 2025 could adopt to help Singapore retailers manage rising costs and a tight labour market, the Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) said.
In its Budget 2025 recommendations released on Jan 23, SRA proposed easing the DRC to “facilitate the employment of more foreign workers” to fill front-line retail roles.
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K ulaganathan K 25/01/2025
why the retailers can't get Singaporean to work if they pay Singaporean appropriately why not Singaporean don't want to work. Govt must impose more levy if you wants foreign talents to work in retailers. Only like construction site they need more foreigners as it is very hard work. others sectors can easily fill up with Singaporean and don't know why local organisations look for foreigner. They not only hitting foreigners with low pay and also hitting Singaporean with mno job.
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