Tag: employment
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CNA Explains: What workers and bosses need to know about the dismissal of pregnant staff
CNA speaks to lawyers about how pregnant employees can protect themselves from wrongful dismissal and when an expectant staff member can be legitimately fired.
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Commentary: What if the HR department’s AI prefers resumes written by AI?
If AI is biased towards AI, it adds a fresh dimension of jeopardy in the dismal hiring arms race, says the Financial Times’ Pilita Clark.
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Woman who resigned after being put on performance improvement plan loses wrongful dismissal claim
The woman’s role was expanded shortly after she passed her probation period to include creative functions, for which she was found to be lacking in a later performance improvement plan.
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Commentary: What happens after retrenchment may matter more than the headline number
How quickly displaced workers find another job, and what happens to their earnings afterwards, may offer a fuller picture of Singapore’s labour market adjustment, says NTU’s Chua Yeow Hwee.
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Larger firms must have certified HR staff by 2028; tripartite report urges ‘people-centred AI transformation’
As technology makes workforce decisions more complex, the foundation of trust that workers have towards HR matters more, says Minister of State for Manpower Foo Cexiang.
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Woman wrongfully dismissed because of her pregnancy and maternity leave awarded S$19,800
The woman, who had a good performance appraisal, was told over the phone by her new boss a few days before delivering that she did not fit into his vision of the team.
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Singapore retrenchments rise sharply in Q2 amid falling vacancies and fewer laid-off workers finding jobs
While the labour market continued to expand from April to June 2026, some indicators pointed to “signs of softening”, said the Manpower Ministry.
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Chinese auto supplier compensates 107 graduates fired barely a month into jobs, punishes managers
Changzhou Xingyu Automotive Lighting Systems said management erred in its assessment and acted “hastily” without fully considering that the graduates had only recently joined the company.
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Hospitality and education boosts US job creation in August
The number of roles added to the US economy increased by 162,000 in August, almost triple the 56,000 forecast.
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Commentary: What a cancer survivor’s wrongful dismissal case tells us about the employer-employee relationship
When illness strikes or life gets in the way, employees will become temporarily less available to their employers. This is normal and should not be an exception to be managed away, say SUSS professor Victor Seah and Singapore Cancer Society’s Tan Kwang Cheak.
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