Labour policy

askST: Twelve Cupcakes, Jollibean, Art Works — Can workers be better protected from sudden closures?

Recent shuttering of businesses including (clockwise from left) Twelve Cupcakes, Jollibean and Art Works left hundreds of workers abruptly without jobs and owed unpaid wages.

Agoda layoffs: Severance deals should not deter staff from reaching authorities, says Tan See Leng

Generic pictures of the Agoda website on a mobile phone, on Sep 17, 2025.

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Don’t let AI outpace human talent, improve HR to build future-ready workforce: SNEF president

Sometimes, tables are banged as the Government, labour movement and employers hash out key workforce policy shifts for Singaporeans, said Mr Tan Hee Teck, president of the Singapore National Employers Federation.

‘No other way out’: Hong Kong’s fresh grads grapple with lower starting pay

Starting salaries for Hong Kong’s fresh graduates have dropped for the first time since 2018.

India’s most valuable export: Tens of millions of workers

Students hoping to work in Japan study Japanese at a language school in New Delhi.

Hyundai-LG plant raid reveals fresh risks for foreign investments in the US

epa12360089 A still frame from a video made available by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) shows an immigration raid at the Hyundai-LG vehicle assembly plant in Ellabell, Georgia, USA, 04 September 2025 (issued 07 September 2025). Immigration officials arrested 475 workers in the raid, most of them South Korean citizens. EPA/COREY BULLARD WITH US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Hong Kong’s influx of mainland Chinese workers puts local job seekers on edge

Office workers cross a street in Central, a major financial district in Hong Kong, on Jan 15, 2024. About 55,000 Chinese from the mainland have joined Hong Kong’s working masses through a “top talent” visa program since December 2022. (Anthony Kwan/The New York Times)

South Korea expands labour protections with new union rules

The amended Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act allows subcontracting firms’ labour unions to make demands of client companies directly.

More seniors remain employed after retirement and re-employment ages raised in 2022: MOM study

The MOM study found that raising retirement and re-employment age works because the policy provides legislative protection and sets the social norms of retirement for senior workers.

Trump selects Heritage Foundation’s E.J. Antoni to head Bureau of Labour Statistics

Mr Trump said he was nominating economist E.J. Antoni as the new Bureau of Labour Statistics commissioner.

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