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Economy & Policy

Tourism sector actively hiring as new roles emerge in tech and sustainability

The Workplace Fairness (Dispute Resolution) Bill is the second of two Bills under the Workplace Fairness Act. If it is passed, the Act is expected to take effect in 2027.
Economy & Policy

New Bill sets out how employees can make discrimination claims at work

The Singapore Opportunity Index categorises top-performing companies into three archetypes: Career Launcher, Career Builder, or Career Anchor.
Singapore

New MOM index finds top employers across all sectors and sizes

Across Singapore, the overall budgeted salary increase for 2026 is projected to be 4.3 per cent, unchanged from salary growth for 2025, according to Aon’s 2025 Salary Increase and Turnover Study, which surveyed over 700 companies across South-east Asia.
Singapore

Singapore’s turnover rate rises more steeply amid steady wage growth: poll

MOM said some workers were misled about key employment terms such as salary and duration of employment.
Singapore

Services sector dominates cases involving misuse of work passes for foreign trainees; nearly half of probed firms face enforcement

NTUC is working with tripartite partners to ensure senior workers have real choices, flexibility and dignity, with fair access to AI-related training and upskilling opportunities.
Singapore

Labour MP Patrick Tay suggests jobseeker support for higher-paid retrenched workers, new workgroup to protect workers in AI age

The first run of the pilot, developed wit e2i and AI training companies, is set to begin in the next few weeks.
Singapore

Government should fund young ‘AI change agents’ to help SMEs transform: Poh Li San

The labour movement will tell the government when a policy, however well-intentioned, risks hurting workers on the ground, says NTUC deputy sectetary-general Desmond Choo.
Economy & Policy

NTUC calls for companies to be ‘transparent and fair’ in AI adoption, share gains with workers

Ang Wee Seng (front right), executive director of the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association, and Patrick Tay (front left), executive secretary of the United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries, sign a memorandum of understanding on skills development. Witnessing the ceremony is Minister for National Development Chee Hong Tat (centre back).
Singapore

Innovation is key for Singapore’s semicon sector to ride, not be swept by, wave of tech breakthroughs: Chee Hong Tat

CMG20250922-HoKJ01Generic shots of white collar workers around CBD for 施政方针辩论 or general stories on economy, finance, jobs, workers, income, salary, tax, employment, inflation, workforce, white collar, wage, singapore , 经济，员工，薪水，市区, 中央商业区内 人潮、上班族 Reemploying jobseekers in Singapore can involve participating in the SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support (JS) Scheme or the Career Conversion Programmes (CCPs), both supported by Workforce Singapore (WSG).
Singapore

Expanding access to global talent among four moves to grow Singapore’s economy: Koh Poh Koon

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