Labour chief Lim Swee Say expects retrenchment this year to be higher than last year's, but still below the historical average.
Low-skilled manufacturing workers will bear the brunt of job losses.
These workers, typically categorised as plant and machine operators and assemblers, form almost 10 per cent of Singapore's workforce of 1.8 million.
Mr Lim, secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, gave his response yesterday when asked for his retrenchment projections following recent official figures showing a slowdown.
He said in an e-mail reply to The Straits Times: 'We expect the number to be higher than last year, but likely to be still below the average level of 10,000.'
tatz is still quite a lot of ppl being retrenched......how is the government going 2 help those retrenched beside the said 'training & re-training & help them match jobs' standard answer???!!!
Low-skilled manufacturing workers will bear the brunt of job losses.
These workers, typically categorised as plant and machine operators and assemblers, form almost 10 per cent of Singapore's workforce of 1.8 million.
Mr Lim, secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress, gave his response yesterday when asked for his retrenchment projections following recent official figures showing a slowdown.
He said in an e-mail reply to The Straits Times: 'We expect the number to be higher than last year, but likely to be still below the average level of 10,000.'
tatz is still quite a lot of ppl being retrenched......how is the government going 2 help those retrenched beside the said 'training & re-training & help them match jobs' standard answer???!!!
. Unless you're in a sector unlikely to be affected e.g. oil & gas
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