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SINGAPORE (Nov 16): A landmark partnership has been established under the TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) FinTech Collective with today’s signing of a memorandum of intent (MoI) between the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Monetary Authori

SINGAPORE (Nov 15): The majority of Singapore’s workforce is less than satisfied with their workplace benefits, contrary to what employers might think.

SINGAPORE (Oct 16): A new minimum wage in Malaysia will be announced next year, says Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr Richard Riot Jaem.

SINGAPORE (Oct 12): Businesses are still struggling to find skilled professionals in several specialist roles and sectors even as the number of well-educated migrants rise to provide a flow of skilled labour across countries as the global economy improves

SINGAPORE (Sept 22): Failure to accurately capture the growing gig economy may be understating actual job creation and painting a more pessimistic picture of Singapore’s labour market, according to Maybank Kim Eng Research.

SINGAPORE (Sept 12): Singapore’s 4Q net employment outlook has jumped to +11% after seasonal variations have been taken into account, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS).

(Sept 6): While Japan had the biggest slump in its workforce in Asia over the last 10 years, Singapore has the most to fear from an aging population over the next two decades.

SINGAPORE (July 31): Maybank Kim Eng Research is maintaining its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast at 3% in the current year and 2.4% in 2018, while emphasising that the upside risks are now capped by weak job growth.

SINGAPORE (June 29): Worried that machines are about to steal your jobs?