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SINGAPORE – The job market ended 2022 with a flourish, with a record 231,700 more workers employed in the course of the year – surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 numbers by 3 per cent.
Jobless rates held steady, and layoffs stayed low despite a spate of job cuts towards the end of the year, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Tuesday in its advance labour market report for 2022.
“For the whole of 2022, the labour market improved significantly compared with 2021,“ MOM said.
SINGAPORE – The job market ended 2022 with a flourish, with a record 231,700 more workers employed in the course of the year – surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 numbers by 3 per cent.
Jobless rates held steady, and layoffs stayed low despite a spate of job cuts towards the end of the year, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Tuesday in its advance labour market report for 2022.
“For the whole of 2022, the labour market improved significantly compared with 2021,“ MOM said.