2018-07-16 
0More than 20,000 employers placed job postings on the Jobs Bank, of which a small minority were to fulfil the Fair Consideration Framework advertising requirements, said Minister of Manpower Mrs Josephine Teo. This was revealed by the Minister, in response to Parliamentary questions Read More
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2018-07-16 0Hidden among the many written replies to Parliamentary questions posed last week (10 Jul) was one answered by new Manpower Minister Josephine Teo. In her written reply she started out saying that some 42% of CPF members decide not to withdraw their CPF Read More
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2018-07-12 0The court has decided on Thursday (12 July) to give the sole proprietor of an employment agency, who brought in a 13-year-old girl from Myanmar to work as a domestic worker in Singapore, the maximum fine of S$5,000. Khor Siew Tiang, 35, the Read More
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2018-07-12 01,000,000 – that is the number of free meals served by local charity Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) since the inception of its free meals programme in 2008. Affectionately known as The Cuff Road Project (TCRP), the meal programme began when a group Read More
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2018-07-09 0The sad reality of capitalism is that there will always exploitation by profit driven businesses who do not see their employees as human beings. They are resources for the maximisation of profits. In this case of a construction worker whose salary was drastically Read More
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2018-07-09 0Malaysia’s Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng wants to make the country attractive again to get Malaysian talents that are overseas, especially those from Singapore, to return home. In a recent interview with the Straits Times, Lim said that Singapore has a knack of Read More
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2018-07-06 0In response to a letter that was allegedly addressed by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) to a Work Permit (WP) holder regarding the worker’s salary reduction by his employer, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nee Soon Group Representation Constituency (GRC), Louis Ng has announced to the Read More
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2018-07-06 0Two weeks ago (21 Jun), Singaporean Tan Soon Hock wrote to ST Forum asking what more must the government do to help the unemployed and underemployed Singaporeans secure jobs in their own home country. Ministry of Manpower official, Terence Ho who is the Read More
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2018-07-03 0The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has made a declaration against employers who misclassify employees as executives or managers in order to avoid paying them for overtime work. In a statement made by Then Yee Thoong, Divisional Director of the Labour Relations and Workplaces Read More
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2018-07-02 0by Irene Choo It is often argued that influx of migrant increases domestic labour supply, depresses wages and curtails employment opportunities for native workers. Conversely, reducing the inflows of migrant would effectively reduce labour supply and stimulate wage growth. Unfortunately, labour market doesn’t Read More
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