Employment at Casinos

Mr Pritam Singh asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Manpower what are the latest available employment figures for our two casinos and what is the percentage breakdown in terms of foreigners, permanent residents and Singaporeans employed.

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam: The Government is unable to provide the firm-level statistics which the Member has asked for as such statistics are protected under the Statistics Act. Nonetheless, there is some publicly available information from the two Integrated Resorts (IRs). They have recently stated that they directly employ more than 22,000 workers, of which about 70% are locals.

MTI estimates that the IRs will add $2.7 billion (or approximately 0.8%) to Singapore's annual GDP and generate between 50,000 and 60,000 direct and indirect jobs throughout the economy by 2015. Government agencies including MOM, MTI, WDA and STB will continue to provide strong support to their recruitment and training of Singaporeans for jobs within the IRs.

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