Labour market

With Singapore’s economy contracting by a historic 13.2% in 2Q2020 ended June, it is no surprise that the labour market has been under the weather.

Jobseekers’ woes may well continue into the last quarter of the year, as the hiring pace in Singapore is expected to stay muted.

A new Professional Conversion Programme has been launched for Advanced Biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing Professionals and Executives in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry subsec

Placements for over 6,300 jobs, traineeships, attachments and training opportunities have been made in Singapore’s manufacturing sector under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills programmes.

Pay cheques of some 224,800 workers across 6,300 companies in Singapore took a hit from cost-cutting measures over the last five months.

Singapore is facing its worst recession on record, and mature workers need to upskill to remain relevant to the agile workforce 

The Covid-19 pandemic has done enough damage in the past six months to wipe out Singapore’s economic gains since 2016.

Some 24,000 people have been placed under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills package as at end July, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) revealed in the first of its series of weekly updates on Singapore’s jo

Singapore’s labour market is reeling from the effects of the Covid-19 health-turned-economic crisis, as total employment plummeted by 121,800 in June 2020.

(July 9): Businesses are looking to manage a new world of work in a post-Covid-19 economy.