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| Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong: More measures to help lower income workers |
| 8 Feb 2010 |
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Measures to encourage low wage workers to take up training are expected to be unveiled during the Budget.
That’s according to Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong, who was speaking yesterday during a visit to Nee Soon Central.
His visit comes hot on the heels of the Economic Strategies Committee's recommendations.
Among the committee’s recommendations are enhancing productivity levels in Singapore and scaling down dependence on foreign workers, says Mr Gan.
"In a recession we have to monitor the situation and allow the foreign worker population to come down, but when the economy recovers we have to be very careful, calibrate our response carefully, otherwise you may stifle the economic recovery. For now, an immediate priority for the tripartite partners is to improve the well-being of low wage workers."
Mr Gan notes that low wage workers do face some obstacles to go for training and this was discovered from a survey of a group of such workers.
He emphasises that an important player in encouraging low wage workers to go for training and upgrading, are their employers.
Details of the budget will be made known on the 22nd of this month |