The People’s Action Party (PAP) remains steadfast in its advocacy for women’s equality. Speaking at the PAP Women’s Wing International Women’s Day Commemoration this past Saturday (Mar 4), Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said that the Party has b ...
The tables will turn next Wednesday (Mar 1, 2023). 41,000 cooks, waiters and other workers in the Food Services sector will be the ones being served up something good. About 12,000 lower-wage workers in this sector will have their wages rise to
Are you curious about the Green Economy? If you are, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Amy Khor has some good news to share. In support of the #SGGreenPlan, the Climate Action SG Alliance (CASA) has launched the&n ...
Food delivery drivers—once part and parcel of modern conveniences—were elevated to the status of essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. After all, many of them had put their health at risk delivering food to our doorsteps, nourishing t ...
Want to help uplift lower-wage workers next time you shop? Look out for these bright ticks on the shop’s or firm’s documents then: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Petir.sg (@staging.petir.sg) This is the Progressive Wage Mark logo (and
Earlier this week, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Lawrence Wong gave a closing dialogue at the Singapore Perspectives 2023 conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). He also participated in a Q&A session where he addressed a mul ...
The Manpower for Strategic Economic Priorities (M-SEP) scheme is not a U-turn, said Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng to Workers Party MP Leon Perera in Parliament on January 9. For context, under the M-SEP scheme, firms can temporarily hire S ...
Singapore’s food industry is about to get more flavourful. The Industry Transformation Map (ITM) and Jobs Transformation Map for the Food Manufacturing sector were launched yesterday by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng yesterday (Dec 14). “ ...
Industry Transformations Maps (ITM) are here to provide better careers for our entrepreneurial retailers and hardworking security officers. And by “better”, we mean flexible training, future-ready upskilling and more take-home pay. Keeping your secur ...
Fantasy stories are especially good at letting people draw parallels to how their own everyday circumstances and problems might be represented. And for this particular social moment, Rings of Power offers an object lesson as to how openness to highly ...
Remember when everyday cashless payments were the future? The thing about the future economy is that it very soon becomes the present economy. Workers will, like Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo said at the 5G Learning Festiv ...
The door-to-door campaign visits of 2020 were unexpectedly helpful for MP Patrick Tay’s (Pioneer) ongoing advocacy for workers’ rights. “I had, in the back of my mind, the idea of providing a one-stop legal clinic to residents,” remembers Mr Tay of t
By Winston Ng On Aug 27, 2022, comrades from various branches nationwide came together with sisters and brothers from the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) at the Party Headquarters for a fireside chat with NTUC Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng. Or ...