Pressing need for all to help workers: Chan Chun Sing

Singapore

THE labour movement in Singapore will have to quicken its pace in helping workers and companies cope with economic restructuring amid slower growth.

In noting that the current slowdown is cyclical and, "more fundamentally, structural", Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Chan Chun Sing said in Parliament on Monday: "The labour movement will definitely want to work with employers and the government to make sure that we minimise the occurrences of structural unemployment.

"The faster our structural changes go, the more we need to do this. ... Because when growth slows, the manoeuvre space becomes tighter."

Mr Chan, together with other Members of Parliament (MPs) representing the labour move…