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Ideas flow on continued help as Jobs Support Scheme nears expiry
While smoothening transition pain, proposals aim to get retrenched back to work and ensure economic recovery
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Annabeth Leow
Published Mon, Jul 27, 2020 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
BETTER wage subsidies, tighter immigration rules, and even the return of a pre-Independence "Workers' Brigade": These are some ideas mooted to keep Singaporeans employed.
"The ideal solution is to ensure that those retrenched could get back on track to become self-reliant again as soon as possible," sociologist Tan Ern Ser told The Business Times.
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