More workers are expected to be retrenched this year compared with
the figure last year, as signs of an economic slowdown become more
evident, labour chief Lim Swee Say said on Sunday.
As demand slows, some companies are already
putting their workers on a shorter work week, such as having them work
only four days a week, he noted.
But he stressed that the situation is nowhere close to the economic downturn of 2008.
The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC),
together with the Workforce Development Agency, is working with affected
employers to send workers for training on the extra day off before they
consider layoffs.
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