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Help our 'graduate poor' break out of the underemployment trap
A recent survey revealed worrying statistics of seriously underemployed Singaporean graduates. NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Zainal Sapari discusses its implications.
The survey – one of the first of its kind – revealed that a small group of graduates had fallen into involuntary underemployment (in other words, not by choice but by circumstances beyond their control) where despite working full-time, they earn less than S$2,000 per month. These are the “graduate poor” and it is a black swan in our labour landscape.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...or-break-out-of-underemployment-trap-10122674
A recent survey revealed worrying statistics of seriously underemployed Singaporean graduates. NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Zainal Sapari discusses its implications.
The survey – one of the first of its kind – revealed that a small group of graduates had fallen into involuntary underemployment (in other words, not by choice but by circumstances beyond their control) where despite working full-time, they earn less than S$2,000 per month. These are the “graduate poor” and it is a black swan in our labour landscape.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...or-break-out-of-underemployment-trap-10122674
