
News by Country: Singapore
5 February 2021
· 62,000 workers due for COVID-19
rostered routine testing ahead of Sep 5 deadline (CNA, 1 September 2020)
· Maybank Singapore to offer 100
traineeships to fresh grads, mid-career workers (Straits Times, 1 September 2020)
· Union leader urges tougher
measures to tackle hiring bias, including EP quotas and ending tax breaks (CNA, 31 August 2020)
· Ground handling firm dnata
retrenches Singapore employees due to COVID-19 disruption (CNA, 28 August 2020)
· Minimum salaries for Employment
Pass and S Pass holders to be raised
(Straits Times, 27 August 2020)
· Singapore Expat Jobs Under Threat
in Recession, Local Hire Push (MSN, 27
August 2020)
· Boosting social supports, safety
nets: Helping Singaporeans get through Covid-19 (Straits Times, 26 August 2020)
· Opening up travel one step at a
time (Straits Times, 25
August 2020)
· Jobs top priority for next few
years; economy must transform quickly (Straits
Times, 25 August 2020)
· Employers reminded to schedule
migrant workers for routine testing: MOM (Straits Times, 19 August 2020)
· How Singapore Flattened the COVID Curve Among Migrants (VOA, 19 August 2020)
· DPM Heng announces $8 billion
more in Covid-19 measures, extends Jobs Support Scheme (Straits Times, 17 August 2020)
· NTUC’s proposed Fair Retrenchment
Framework to be incorporated into tripartite advisory (Straits Times, 17 August 2020)
· National Wages Council to
reconvene, aims for updated guidelines by September (CNA, 14 August 2020)
· 40,000 foreign workers can resume
renovation, certain types of work without needing BCA approval (CNA, 13 August 2020)
· COVID-19: 24,000 offered jobs,
work attachments under SGUnited package between March and July (CNA, 11 August 2020)
· Singapore sees slow recovery as
economy plunges by record (Bangkok Post, 11 August 2020)
· Singapore to subsidise Covid-19
healthcare costs of some outbound travellers from today (Malay Mail, 7 August 2020)
· 7-day stay-home notice period for
Malaysian workers in Singapore decided based on risk assessment (Straits Times, 6 August 2020)
· Spate of Suicides Among Migrant
Workers in Singapore Raises Concern (New
York Times, 6 August 2020)
· Nurses’ Day: Nurses on the
frontlines share how Covid-19 has changed their personal lives and work (Today, 3 August 2020)
· Foreign worker levy waiver,
rebates to be extended (Straits
Times, 2 August 2020)
· Government sets aside $320
million to cover further extension of foreign worker levy rebates (Straits Times, 1 August 2020)
· New roles for laid-off Singapore
workers may not be perfect fit (Business
Times, 28 July 2020)
· Coronavirus: Singapore's
last-line defenders make critical decisions daily to save patients in the ICU (Straits Times, 26 July 2020)
·
Retrenched
workers: Govt will be generous with support but firms also need to 'play ball',
says Tharman (Straits Times, 23 July 2020)
·
New
social compact, activist governments needed for a post-Covid-19 world (Straits Times, 22 July
2020)
·
More than
half of Singapore's hotel rooms used in Covid-19 battle, not all can reopen for
staycations: STB chief (Straits Times, 22 July 2020)
· Muji says Singapore,
Malaysia business not affected by US bankruptcy protection filing (Today, 21 July 2020)
· Isolation, job
uncertainty continues to take a toll on workers even after easing of circuit
breaker measures
(The Straits Times, 19 July 2020)
· 140k employers to get
$4 billion in Jobs Support Scheme payouts from July 29 (The Straits Times, 19 July 2020)
· Financial services a
silver lining amid Covid-19 gloom (Straits Times, 17 July 2020)
· Retrenchment is
likely to rise”: Chan Chun Sing addresses post-GE plans (MSN,
17 July 2020)
· Resorts World Sentosa
to let go of staff amid Covid-19 impact to tourism industry (Mothership, 15 July 2020)
· Singapore: Government
orders removal of critical comments on handling of COVID-19 pandemic (IFEX,
12 July 2020)
· Society must
recognise potential mental health crisis following Covid-19, says Singapore
doctor
(Today, 10 July 2020)
· Rolls-Royce to cut
240 jobs in Singapore due to Covid-19 impact (Straits Times, 9 July 2020)
· Singapore secures three of top
five South-east Asia deals despite Covid-19 slowdown (Straits Times, 8 July 2020)