More tourism layoffs expected despite redeployment strategy
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EFFORTS are under way to avoid "catastrophic job loss" in the ailing tourism sector, which has shed thousands of jobs this year.
Even so, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing warned business leaders on Wednesday that "it will be inevitable that some segments of our industry will have ... to let go of workers in the short term", given the freeze on mass-market travel.
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