Gig economy

Forum: More safeguards needed as platform work grows more complex

Cabbies, PHV drivers can take up bus driver jobs by signing up for new training programme from Oct 1

Senior Minister of State for Transport Sun Xueling at the Singapore Bus Academy at Ulu Pandan Bus Depot on Sept 28.

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(Left to right) Straits Times senior correspondent Chor Khieng Yuit, alongside Tan Huey Min, general manager of Credit Counselling Singapore, and Leon Loh, financial services consultant at Gen Financial Advisory, at the Straits Times InvestMe session on Sept 17.

Free AI training and ChatGPT subscriptions for Grab platform workers, merchants to build business ideas

Around 50 female drivers and delivery riders attending the first workshop organised by Grab and OpenAI, as part of a two-year programme that seeks to impart practical AI skills to gig workers and merchants.

Delivery riders welcome guidelines for dedicated condo parking spots and collection lockers

Implementing new building guidelines like allocated parking spaces and collection points in condos is likely to vary across developments, said experts.

Automation is coming for the gig economy

This bodes poorly when gig platforms have indeed become a safety net for people who have fallen out of – or struggled to access – the formal labour market.

A permanent or contract role? That isn’t the real career question

Today’s workers are increasingly focused on building a portfolio of skills rather than finding a “job for life”.

Be Monkey King? Young Chinese find work in theme parks’ role-playing boom

Yao Fancheng plays ancient Chinese poet Su Shi at the China Folk Culture Village in Shenzhen. He makes sure to draw from verses familiar to people of different generations to “ensure that everybody can participate”.

China’s netizens rage against professor who said gig work was a type of ‘welfare’

The rise of gig jobs in China heightens long-term risks for China’s already strained welfare and pension systems.

Safe riding programme launched to help delivery workers navigate road risks

Grab has launched a safety riding programme for delivery workers to learn how to manoeuvre their motorcycles with loaded bags and in tight spaces, among other skills.

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