Hiring of local workers would have been slower without Jobs Growth Incentive: Josephine Teo
JGI may also be helping to address unemployment and underemployment, she says
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THE movement of workers into growing firms and industries would likely have been slower without the Jobs Growth Incentive (JGI) "lubricating the process", Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said.
Speaking in Parliament during her ministry's Committee of Supply debate on Wednesday, Mrs Teo signalled that unemployment will not come down and may even creep up again, with longer-term consequences.
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