Signs are pointing to a recovery in Singapore's labour market, with the Manpower Ministry seeing job openings in such sectors as finance and insurance, healthcare and wholesale trade.
The ministry's figures released yesterday showed fewer workers were retrenched in the first half of this year, and that more local residents were working.
This was a turnaround from falling local employment in the first half of both 2015 and last year.
As the unemployment rate for citizens dipped from 3.5 per cent in March this year to 3.3 per cent in June, the number of job openings in the same period rose to 49,000.
