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Advance retrenchment notifications may discourage talks to save jobs: Tan See Leng responds to NTUC proposal
Requiring larger companies to pay higher retrenchment benefits may also put more jobs at risk if the firm is in financial difficulty, said the manpower minister.
Manpower Minister Tan See Leng speaking in parliament on Mar 3, 2026.
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SINGAPORE: Requiring employers to notify authorities before they retrench workers may discourage talks to save jobs, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng said on Tuesday (Mar 3).
He was responding to calls by labour chief Ng Chee Meng and other members of parliament (MPs) from the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to implement advance mandatory retrenchment notifications.
Before Trump visits Beijing on April Fools' Day. Assuming nothing new happens in China.
And for those Trump Derangement Syndrome creatures here... Trump is preventing WW3, not inciting it. There is inversion in everything these days: good is called evil, evil is called good, man is called woman, woman is called man etc.