Crossing the PMET divide: Can every job be a good job?
Pressure to place ever more Singaporeans into PMET jobs likely to rise; it is estimated that by 2030, about two in three of them will hold such jobs
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MORE PMETs (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) are getting retrenched, while non-PMET jobs continue to be shunned by Singaporeans.
As such, questions have been raised about whether increasing the wages for non-PMET positions is a better solution for this dichotomy - rather than creating more PMET jobs and pushing more Singaporeans into this category of labour.
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