It noted that this was slightly higher than the 0.3 percentage point increase in July, when Singapore’s resident unemployment rate was 4.1%.
Singapore’s labour market is still under the weather from the Covid-19 health-turned-economic crisis, despite the resumption of activities such as in-person dining in at restaurants and in-store shopping.
Resident unemployment edged up 0.4 percentage points to 4.5% in August, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) detailed in its weekly Jobs Situation Report released on Oct 7.
