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Hawker work often stretches upwards of 12 hours, is punishing, unglamorous, and doesn't attract enough workers in a first-world country where there are opportunities to earn way more without working for so many hours a day.
“Hawkerprenuership’ is known for long, inflexible and sometimes irregular hours and gruelling tasks,” Dr. George Wong, a senior lecturer of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences of Singapore Management University, told Singapore Business Review.
“With similar wages, long-term visit pass (LTVP) holders may consider work-related factors in choosing between occupations,” he added.
The government plan to let foreigners with long-term visit passes to work as food stall assistants — now limited to Singapore citizens and permanent residents — is meant to ease rising manpower costs and is part of a bigger push to help and preserve the city-states hawker culture and identity.
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