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Budget 2026: Restaurant association seeks help with labour cost, to control excessive rent increases

ST20250924_202599000154/pixgenerics/Brian Teo/Generic of diners at Jurong Point on Sept 24, 2025. Can be used for stories on restaurants, food and beverage (F&B) businesses, sales, manpower crunch, finance, economy, domestic expenditure, singapore gross domestic product (GDP), budget. ST PHOTO: BRIAN TEO

UK firms cut jobs at fastest pace in five years, wages cool

UK firms cut jobs at the fastest rate since 2020; payrolls fell by 43,000 in December, double market expectations, per ONS data.

UK seeks to ease global talent visas as Reeves heads to Davos

Chancellor Reeves promotes UK investment at Davos amid US tariff threats and plans to mend relations post-tax changes that caused wealth drain.

US Fed official says bank should be ready to cut rates

Ms Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s vice-chair for supervision. believes inflation is on a “sustained trajectory” towards the Fed’s longer-term 2 per cent target.

2 Singapore tech firms under probe after staff salaries go unpaid for months

Otsaw Digital and Otsaw Swisslog Healthcare Robotics are under probe by the authorities for months of unpaid salaries and CPF arrears.

Full-time employment rate stable for fresh poly graduates in 2025, with starting pay on the rise

The median gross monthly salary of poly graduates in full-time permanent employment continued to grow, from $2,900 in 2024 to $3,000 in 2025.

Forum: Normalise listing of caregiving roles on CVs

Over 10,000 jobs to be offered with launch of year-long job fair initiative in East Coast

(From left) East Coast GRC MPs Dinesh Vasu Dash, Edwin Tong, Tan Kiat How and Jessica Tan at the launch of the East Side Best Careers initiative on Jan 14.

Traders’ bets on Fed rate cut by June reinforced by softer US inflation

Bond traders continued to all-but-fully price in a Fed rate cut by the June policy meeting, with some chance of an earlier move but minimal odds of action this month.

Job applicants are winning the AI arms race against recruiters

Recruiters are finding AI too much of a good thing as they are flooded with ChatGPT-enabled job applications.

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