SINGAPORE: As Singapore’s outlook darkens with growth cooling to levels last seen a decade ago, there could be more retrenchments and fewer job vacancies ahead, said economists.
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SINGAPORE: The citizen unemployment rate in Singapore rose slightly in the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary figures released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Friday (Apr 26).
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SINGAPORE – An increasing number of Singapore jobseekers are expressing interest in working for a start-up, according to results from recruitment firm CareerBuilder Singapore’s Employer of Choice Survey 2018. Read more here
When its first buildings are ready in five years, Punggol North could become something of a mini Silicon Valley in Singapore – a centre for digital and cyber-security industries that generates up to 28,000 digital economy jobs.
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The Employment (Amendment) Bill was passed in Parliament today, with changes to the Employment Act (EA) and Employment Claims Act (ECA) to take effect from 1 April 2019. The amendments to the Acts cover four key areas: (i) Extension of core provisions of the EA to protect all employees; (ii) Extension of Part IV of…
Fewer people were laid off in the third quarter of this year, while overall unemployment crept up slightly.
But as a whole, the labour market continued to improve, with total employment growth more than doubling in this period, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) yesterday.
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SINGAPORE — Some 500 companies have been placed on a government watch list for not doing enough to hire Singaporeans, double the 250 on the list this time last year, said Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say on Monday (March 5) as he warned that such firms will be taken to task.
SINGAPORE: Social media giant Facebook on Thursday (Sep 6) announced it will pour in more than S$1.4 billion to construct its first data centre in Asia in Singapore. The new facility, located at Tanjong Kling (formerly known as Data Centre Park) in the west of Singapore, will span 170,000 sq m and will “support hundreds of jobs”,…
SINGAPORE – Foreign workers living in dormitories can now inform the Manpower Ministry (MOM) of their living conditions with the DormWatch application the ministry rolled out on Wednesday (Sept 12). The app allows workers to provide feedback by uploading photos they have snapped, and to alert their dormitory operators and MOM of the issues that…
SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) – The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is investigating retail giant Mustafa Centre for alleged employment offences. In a statement to The New Paper on Sunday (Aug 5), an MOM spokesman said the company is being investigated following several complaints against it recently. “MOM has received complaints that Mohamed Mustafa and Samsuddin…