2014: More workers retrenched, employment rate of poly grads down
Singapore From Jan to Sep last year, a total of 7,710 workers were retrenched, reported NTUC. This number is about 500 or 7% more than that in the same period in 2013. NTUC was citing figures from the Manpower Ministry. The increase was due to more workers being laid off from the services sector. For unionised sectors, 2,212...
TAFEP investigating llaollao for job discrimination
The Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP) is currently investigating a case of a Singaporean Indian girl purportedly being discriminated from a part-time job at a frozen yoghurt shop in West Mall. The shop is a franchisee of the Spanish frozen yogurt chain llaollao. The Singaporean, Ms Karish...
Govt and Temasek to spend $1B developing Mandai
The government announced yesterday (14 Jan) that the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will partner Temasek Holdings to create a large-scale nature project in Mandai. The first phase of the project is estimated to cost some $1 billion. "This partnership will help realise the Government’s vision for Mandai to be a world-class nature-themed...
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