Singapore Sees Jump in Cost of Hiring Foreign Labour: ST

The cost of hiring foreign workers has shot up dramatically for construction companies in Singapore, the Straits Times reported.

In some cases, companies are paying up to five times what they paid a few months ago when the workers could fly in via quarantine-free vaccinated travel lanes (VTLs), the report added.

Read the full report: Straits Times.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.

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