350 jobs in creative sector

THERE are some 350 immediate job vacancies and many more training and apprenticeship opportunities in the Creative Industries, the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) said on Saturday.
Some job openings in areas such as Animation, Games Development, New Media, Public Relations, Publishing and Arts Management are available at the Creative Industries Fair. Participating employers include Emily [...]

Singapore: 4,300 jobs to go in Q1

Electronics sector will bear brunt but there is a glimmer of hope: NTUC deputy sec-gen
MORE unionised workers will lose their jobs in the first three months of this year than originally estimated: The number is now expected to hit 4,300.
The figure is much higher than labour chief Lim Swee Say’s estimate of 3,700, made [...]

Jobs Credit and Spur already helping workers, firms weather downturn

FOR more than a week, the announcements kept coming as the ministries rolled out their plans and proposals for this year and the years ahead. On Friday, it was slightly different.
Parliament came full circle as the debate on the Budget and Government expenditure ended on the same note on which it started: Jobs.
But where Members [...]

MOM takes 3-pronged approach to help workers & firms weather downturn

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Manpower Ministry (MOM) has spelt out a three-pronged strategy to help workers and companies weather the downturn and emerge stronger.
They are helping businesses remain viable, saving jobs and helping the unemployed find work.
Acting Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong also gave details of the one-off Workfare Special Payment announced in the Budget’s Resilience Package.
The [...]

Layoffs have gathered pace after CNY, 3,500 retrenchments expected within unionised sector for first quarter (Update 1)

SINGAPORE should brace itself for record highs in the unemployment rate and job losses this year, given current global trends. But the Government, unions and employers are doing all they can to keep the numbers down, and things would be much worse if not for initiatives like the Jobs Credit scheme, Minister in the Prime [...]

UWEEI pushes for more Chartered workers to be sent for training

SINGAPORE: In response to Chartered Semiconductor’s announcement on Friday that it would cut 600 jobs worldwide, the United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries (UWEEI) said it was informed of the restructuring exercise by the company in early January.
This has allowed both the company and union sufficient time to discuss how best to help the [...]

Labour movement aims to keep job losses below 29,000 this year

SINGAPORE : The labour movement is going to do all it can to keep job layoffs under 29,000 this year – the level last seen during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998.
Analysts have said that Singapore could see unemployment hit a 20-year high in 2009.
Up to 51 million jobs are expected to be lost globally [...]

Think again, PM Lee urges bosses planning layoffs

PRIME MINISTER Lee Hsien Loong has called on employers to think again before axing jobs.
Retrenchment should be ‘the final choice rather than the first choice’, he said, especially now that the Government has schemes in place to help companies cut wage costs.
Speaking on Monday after visiting pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the first day of [...]

Marina Bay Sands seeks to hire those who underwent retraining under SPUR

SINGAPORE: Marina Bay Sands is ramping up its hiring of retrenched professionals who have undergone retraining under the Professional Conversion Programme.
This comes after the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR) was expanded in this year’s Budget to give professionals more subsidies to undergo training and take up jobs in a different industry.
When it was [...]

More firms implement retraining and redeployment to cut costs

SINGAPORE: Meritus Mandarin Hotel has seen its occupancy rates fall by 15 per cent since December, but the company is not cutting wages or retrenching staff. Instead, it is tapping on creative redeployment.
For example, hotel chef Chong Shoon Chye has been taking on cleaning duties since the restaurant he was working in closed for renovations [...]