labour market

SINGAPORE (Oct 30): Singapore’s economic growth will remain uneven through the end of the year, with weakness concentrated in trade and manufacturing, before halting its downtrend in 2020, the central bank said.

(Oct 29): Singapore’s resilient labour market is starting to come under strain as the trade-reliant economy struggles in the face of global pressures.

SINGAPORE (Sept 16): “Let the data speak for itself. Minister Siti Nurbaya should not be in denial.” — Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysian Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, refuting her Indonesian counterpart’s claims tha

SINGAPORE (Sept 12): Even as Singapore’s economy is expected to record slower growth in 2019, the labour market has remained positive in the first half of the year, according to the Ministry of Manpower.

SINGAPORE (Sept 2): From this month, tech firms in Singapore can look forward to an expansion of their ranks, as a government scheme to facilitate global hiring takes effect. The Tech @ SG scheme, launched at end-July and scheduled to start in the coming

Singapore’s high-tech ambitions are not quite matched by the depth of its local talent pool. While attracting employees from abroad, the city state must also build up its domestic workforce if it sees tech as its future.

SINGAPORE (Aug 16): Young people in Southeast Asia are prioritising skills over salary, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and internet platform Sea.

SINGAPORE (July 1): Owing to the inadequacy of the social safety net in the US and other developed countries, proposals for a universal basic income (UBI) are gaining in popularity. The gap between the rich and everyone else has expanded significantly in

SINGAPORE (June 28): Some 5.2% of young Singapore residents aged 15 to 29 were unemployed in 2018 – more than double the unemployment rates faced by other age groups, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in the latest first

SINGAPORE (July 1): The labour market in Singapore has typically been tight. Over the last four decades, the city state had an average unemployment rate of 2.43%. It did reach an all-time high of 6% in ­early 1986 as Singapore faced its first recession p