ManpowerGroup News

Manpower nightmare: F&B businesses offer higher pay to no or few takers, urge MOM to relook foreign labour policy

Written by TODAY Singapore | Apr 7, 2022 4:00:00 PM

SINGAPORE — Mr Jeremy Cheok has just two requirements for anyone willing to work in the restaurant he founded: Two hands and two legs. Age, he said, is not a factor.

Yet, he continues to find it tough to hire workers, with even "a couple of old people” who walk by to enquire about job vacancies not showing up on the day they were supposed to be interviewed, he added.