Fishy business. The Social Impact of SST.pdf - Act Now!

There is still need to recruit more people and I am sure the number is likely to go over 1300.One of the reasons is that the company employee absenteeism rate is high because not allthe employees live here in town or the nearby settlements. We have people coming outsideof town and have to pay between K2-K6 bus fares to come to work. With the poortransportation system in town, there is not guarantee that we will have good attendance rate.Also, with the poor remuneration and the pay, people just walk of their job if they want toleave thus we also have a high turnover rate.I would say that many people working are there because that is probably the only paid jobthat is available for them. I don’t mean they can’t have an employment else where but interm of the jobs available right now in town. People need money to survive so whatever thecondition and the pay is for them they just go to work for their lousy K60 or K80.In terms of the expatriates working in the company - we have the General Manager Mr IanBoatwood who is from New Zealand (but thinks he is from America), the FinancialManager (Australian), Production Manager, Engineering Manger, Quality Control Manager(2 Filipinos). So 7 expatriates for all the senior management jobs and I was the onlynational in there as the Human Resource Manager in the senior management decisionmaking level. Now that my position was made redundant that I will discuss when we havetime, the management is manly dominated by the foreigners.There are qualified Papua New Guineans out there but the company did not do enoughsearch to attract them. And mind you, the nationals working in the SST are seen asincompetent and unskilled and that is one of the things that frustrated me. Many so-calledexperts still consider PNG as secondary human being and have very low regard of theirexpertise. South Sea Tuna for one undermine their abilities and even pay them a very verylow salary. We need a complete overhaul of the colonial mindset of these foreigners – somePapua New Guineas are well qualified then some of those foreigners who can’t even have asimilar job they have in their own country.I was the only Papua New Guinean that was looked after well by the company. I have avery good salary, with all my telephone, power, gas, school fees, entertainment, etc. paid bythe company plus a good house and a vehicle. Now that I am out, no Papua New Guinea isanywhere near.Some of those Asian working in the factory are learning on the job. It seems they knownothing about their jobs and I can see it very clearly. I am a Human Resources Manager andI have 20 years experience in the business of man management thus I know and can tell thedifference people who know their jobs from such Asians. It should be the job of the ForeignAffairs and the Immigration department to carefully scan them before allowing them intothe country (giving them work permit), which is off course a very corrupt governmentagencies now with over 10 000 illegal immigrants are on the lose running around in PNGnow. I can assure you that the 10 000 illegal immigrants are unskilled and lowly educatedpeople finding their escape into PNG because this is the only place they can find moneycheating its people and the government. Therefore, the Foreign Affairs and ImmigrationOfficers are a shame to this country. I would say of the 10 000 illegal immigrants about 95percent would be from Asia. And mind you, the Asians are invading every part of the worldand PNG is not an acceptation. Globalization in turn is about Asian spreading thepopulation everywhere and trying to control the business and economic activities of townsand cities and also spreading Western values and their own. You go and take a head countfor all the stores and small businesses which by law is reserved for nationals only the135