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Singapore News - Part-timers were more sought after during the year end than they were in the past few years, even pre-pandemic, as travel and festivities returned in full swing in 2022. Due to high competition for manpower and soaring inflation rates, part-timers were paid, on average, up... Read more at www.tnp.sg

PUTRAJAYA: It is compulsory for employers to seek employment approval for foreign workers from the Labour Department director-general, says the Human Resources Minister.

Twitter is being sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social media platform, which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of US federal and California law.

Singapore News - There is greater scope for women - still the main caregivers in most homes - to join and remain in the workforce, with more employers now providing flexible work practices like working from home. President Halimah Yacob, making this point on Tuesday, also said a lot more... Read more at www.tnp.sg

Food giant Nestle plans to stop sourcing from subsidiaries of Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), a major Indonesian palm oil producer accused by environmental groups of land and human rights abuses.

Le gouvernement a pris la décision de promulger le Civil Aviation (Passenger Service Charge) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, du retrait du "Butterfish" de la liste des "“Controlled Fish Species”, que les Samadhis et les monuments en

A recent study on living wage levels says that the provincial government’s planned increases to the minimum wage still won't cover basic living expenses.

New data from the Manitoba Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that while the province plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next two years, more could still be done.

With the Covid pandemic came a slowdown followed by a spate of unprecedented layoffs in aviation. However, as capacity returns and a busy summer season looms, acute labour shortages and worker...

Singapore News - As the pandemic-stricken economy started healing, more workers recovered owed salaries and fewer lodged complaints for wrongful dismissals. Some of these claims came through a portal, which will now be ramped up with artificial intelligence to aid settlements in the future,... Read more at www.tnp.sg