
News by Country: Singapore
22 January 2021
·
Singapore budget carrier Jetstar Asia to cut a quarter
of its workforce (The Inquirer, 26 June 2020)
·
COVID-19: Majority of employers 'reasonable and fair'
in cost-saving measures (CNA, 24 June 2020)
· S'poreans
donated $90m in first five months of 2020, equal to whole of last year's
donations (Straits Times, 22 June 2020)
· First
weekend of phase 2: Up to 80% jump in shopper traffic at popular malls (Straits
Times, 22 June 2020)
· Building
new post-Covid-19 workplaces (Straits Times, 21
June 2020)
· Spike in
investments into S'pore-based fintech firms (Straits Times, 21
June 2020)
· KidZania
Singapore closure: 103 workers to be retrenched, given severance packages (Today, 19
June 2020)
· Covid-19:
Malaysian workers can’t enter S’pore, Thailand under lockdown, M’sian
immigration chief confirms (Today, 19 June 2020)
· COVID-19:
No mid-year bonus for civil servants, one-time pay cut for officers in
'superscale grades' (CNA, 18 June 2020)
· COVID-19:
AIA Singapore employees to receive S$1,000 in work from home assistance scheme (CNA, 17
June 2020)
· COVID-19:
MOM issues fines, orders closure of workplaces for failing to comply with safe
management measures (CNA, 16 June 2020)
· COVID-19:
More than 130 companies return Jobs Support Scheme wage subsidies worth S$97
million (CNA, 15 June 2020)
· As job
numbers turn out worse than early estimates, Josephine Teo warns full effects
of Covid-19 yet to be felt (Today, 15 June 2020)
· Singapore
businesses and workers still have opportunities even in a less connected world (Straits
Times, 14 June 2020)
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Commentary: Employers who lowball jobseekers based on
last-drawn salaries are shooting themselves in the foot
(CNA, 12 June 2020)
·
Singapore stress levels show working from home is no
holiday (Nikkei Asian Review, 11 June 2020)
·
Eligible employers to receive more than S$450 million
in Wage Credit Scheme payouts by end-June
(CNA, 11 June 2020)
·
Migrant
workers volunteer to help curb virus spread in dorms (Straits
Times, 8 June 2020)
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Safeguards
needed before travel between Singapore and Malaysia can resume: Lawrence Wong (CNA, 8 June
2020)
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Regional
Covid-19 testing centres to be set up across Singapore (Asia
One, 9 June 2020)
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Employers,
operators and NGOs step up for workers cooped up in factory-converted
dormitories (CNA, 5 June 2020)
·
No plans
to reduce rates for CPF contributions (Straits Times, 5
June 2020)
·
More than
408,000 COVID-19 tests conducted in Singapore (CNA, 4
June 2020)
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Employers
that 'disguise retrenchments' may have Jobs Support Scheme, work pass
privileges withdrawn: Josephine Teo (CNA, 4 June 2020)
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Parliament:
Labour MP Patrick Tay calls on Govt, firms to root out workplace 'horror
stories' (Straits Times, 4 June 2020)
·
32,000
foreign workers have been moved from dormitories to temporary housing (CNA, 4
June 2020)
·
COVID-19:
Singapore to build new dormitories with improved living standards for migrant
workers (CNA, 1 June 2020)
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Employers
must let their foreign workers move to other dorms or work for other firms to
get levy rebates: MOM (Straits Times, 31 May
2020)
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Singapore
hopes to reopen 80% of its economy in June as coronavirus restrictions lift,
says minister (CNBC, 31 May 2020)
·
Covid-19
has stressed social fault lines in Singapore (Straits Times, 31
May 2020)
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NTUC focusing on matching at-risk workers to companies
(Straits Times, 28 May 2020)
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More than S$360 million paid out to self-employed
workers under COVID-19 income relief scheme
(CNA, 28 May 2020)
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Chevron plans sweeping job cuts with 6,000 employees
at risk (Straits Times, 28 May 2020)
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Job security of migrant workers depends on employers
(Straits Times, 28 May 2020)
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Dividends from Singapore companies to fall 4.5% this
year on Covid-19 impact (Straits
Times, 27 May 2020)
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Workers hope for improved living spaces, safer
transport (Straits Times, 26 May 2020)
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$33b set aside in Fortitude Budget, bringing
Singapore's Covid-19 war chest to nearly $100 billion
(Straits Times, 26 May 2020)
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200,000 migrant workers get special Hari Raya Puasa
meal (Straits Times, 24 May 2020)
· Bangladeshi
worker who spent nearly two months in ICU with Covid-19 will move to community
hospital to recuperate (Straits Times, 21 May 2020)