Is Our Painting Workers Legal?

We have heard people have used illegal painters to paint their home or work place. We like to share with you, we do not have illegal painters working with us, all our workers are legal. Meaning we paid levy to Singapore government to have them work in Singapore.

This was one of the questions when I was returning call to a enquirer today. She first asked if our painters are Singaporean, I answered no, then she asked if they are legal, and “Yes” is my answer. Why do people ask this question?

I think the main reason is to avoid trouble. Trouble from the authorities and trouble from the illegal painters.

Trouble from authorities. As you know that Singapore government is very strict in illegal workers working here, I am not sure as a customer what you will get from the authorities if you know that the painters are illegal. I can only say, “do anything you want, but don’t get caught“.

Trouble from illegal painters. I heard that Malaysian painters are coming over to Singapore to work illegally as a painter. They can charged lower rates than the legal painters, because they do not need to paint levy and the Malaysian currency is weaker than Singapore’s. So the Malaysian painters will still earn more even when they offer lower price than our legal Singapore painters.

Another thing is that the illegal painters do not register a company in Singapore, so they are not really liable to Singapore law. You can say they are in the gray area. If there is any problem during or after the painting, most probably they will not care about you, and you can’t report to the authorities.

The solution is to use local registered painting companies in Singapore, though we are more expensive than the illegal ones, but we are way more reliable painters. Have a great weekend!