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NEW YORK (Jan 12): Thinking about taking a job at a small company? Don’t expect a good retirement plan.

WASHINGTON (Jan 6): US President-elect Donald Trump targeted Toyota Motor Corp on Thursday, threatening to impose a hefty fee on the world's largest automaker if it builds its Corolla cars for the US market at a plant in Mexico.

SINGAPORE (Dec 29): The proportion of establishments in Singapore giving out retrenchment benefits remains high, says the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) based on the results of its Retrenchment Benefits Survey covering retrenchments conducted in 2015.

SINGAPORE (Dec 11): It has been an interesting year for jobs and employment in Singapore. On the one hand, jobs have been harder to come by, and more people are clinging on to their positions at work because of a lack of options.

SINGAPORE (Nov 22): As both a woman and a person of colour, Erika Irish Brown spent over 15 years of her career in the financial sector feeling fortunate to have been given what she saw as equal opportunities as everyone else in the US.

SINGAPORE (Nov 21): Despite Singapore’s slowing economy and volatile economic environment, the city state’s maturing life science industry continues to report a strong demand for talent, says Randstad Singapore.

SINGAPORE (Oct 28): Singapore’s headline employment remained unchanged at 2.1% at a seasonally adjusted level – better than the consensus of 2.2% – while resident and citizen unemployment rates each edged down 0.1 percentage point from the previous

SINGAPORE (Oct 24): Arm yourself with knowledge in Cloud and Distributed Computing, and you will be virtually employable anywhere in the world.

SINGAPORE (Sept 29): Global biopharmaceutical giant, AbbVie has opened its new small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) facility in Singapore, marking its first manufacturing facility in Asia.

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): Finding suitable candidates to fill leadership positions may be critical to a company’s success, but it is not going to get easier until organisations begin shifting their thinking on leadership, says LinkedIn Talent Solutions.