Key messages from PM Lee’s May Day 2021 speech Details Published: 03 May 2021
The nation s leader urged everyone to seize new opportunities, namely, digitalisation, automation, sustainability; as well as promised agile and decisive response to the growing community cases.
With 2020 s May Day Rally taking place virtually in Singapore amidst the Circuit Breaker, this year the situation was different as the event was marked in-person. PM Lee Hsien Loong remarked: This year, our COVID-19 situation is better. We can gather together, although in smaller numbers than usual and safe management and in different coloured tags.
He went on to share that this year s Rally is special owing to NTUC s 60
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PM Lee lauds unions role in helping workers during COVID-19 crisis in May Day message
In his May Day message, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called for recommitment from the unions, employers and the Government to strengthen their three-way partnership to support Singapore s economic transformation in a post-pandemic world. Natasha Razak with more. 2 related media assets (image or videos) available. Click to see the gallery.
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SINGAPORE: Unions ensured retrenchments were carried out fairly and responsibly when job losses became unavoidable during the COVID-19 crisis, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his May Day message on Friday (Apr 30)
Published: 25 February 2021
Separately, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo shared updates on Singapore s employment trends, as well as expected severity of retrenchment in the coming months.
On Wednesday (24 February), Singapore Labour Members of Parliament (Labour MPs) came together to debate the recent Singapore Budget 2021, stressing focus on topics such as the Progressive Wage Model, support for employees in working from home, respecting diversity at the workplace, and more.
These are summarised below.
Speech focus: Uplifting lower wage workers, and supporting workers training and business transformation
In his speech, Dr Koh shared more about NTUC s aspirations and ideas to expand progressive wages and practices to uplift lower wage workers (LWW), ensuring that wages and careers do not stagnate over time.