Get more women to work to increase GDP: Better to increase pay?
I refer to the article “Narrowing gender gap can add S$26b to Singapore’s GDP by 2025: Report” (Channel NewsAsia, Apr 24). It states that “More action to advance gender equality could help to grow Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) by an additional US$20 billion (about S$26 billion), or 5 per cent, by 2025, said...
What’s the point of so many enhancements to the national jobs bank?
I refer to the article “New jobs portal uses technology to better match jobseekers and employers” (Straits Times, Apr 17). It states that “A high-tech national jobs portal was launched on Tuesday (April 17) to better match local jobseekers with employers. It can prioritise search results according to the relevance of...
Double standards when we talk about foreign workers and lower-income Singaporean workers?
I refer to the article “Commentary: Don’t hold our treatment of foreign domestic workers to countries with lower standards” (Channel NewsAsia, Apr 21). After reading the above and as we are approaching Labour Day on 1 May – I simply took parts of the article and changed “foreign domestic worker” to “lower-income...
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