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The city will prioritize high-risk groups of people like healthcare workers and carers at nursing homes. Hong Kong this week announced plans to begin a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining many other nations such as Singapore in the global fight against the pandemic. The city has been finalizing details of the campaign and will likely begin mass vaccinations in ...

However, new guidelines will be issued for workers with a ‘very high risk of exposure’ Workers in Singapore who opt out of the government programme to vaccinate all citizens against COVID-19 will not need to change their job scope unless the number of cases spikes, according to Health Minister Gan Kim Yong. In most instances, redeployment of nonvaccinated employees will not ...

Some roles performed by Human Resource (HR) Managers are at risk of being taken over by robots in near future, a study commissioned by the Ministry of Manpower and the Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP) has found. Of the 27 HR roles that were analyzed, 24 will be impacted by technology at varying degrees in the next three to five years, according to the study ...

Local attractions can apply to increase their operating capacity from 50% to 65%, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Dec 14), as it detailed further easing of restrictions in various areas when Singapore enters Phase 3 of its reopening on 28th December. The capacity limit for malls and large standalone stores will be increased from 10 sq m per person to 8 sq m per ...

Non-professionals, managers, executives, and technicians (PMETs) experienced a higher jobless rate compared to PMETs, as industries more affected by COVID-19 had a greater concentration of non-PMETs, latest data from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) showed. The resident unemployment rate among non-PMETs increased by 1.7 percentage points from 4.7 percent in June 2019 to 6.4 pe...

If you are a student in Singapore looking to gain work experience at a large tech firm next year, you can apply to Amazon, Facebook, and Grab. Grab, the most prolific local recruiter of these three firms is currently offering January-to June internships across 10 teams, including engineering, information technology, data analytics, and data science, and product and design. T...

More than 12,000 information and communications technology (ICT) jobs are available under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package to help boost a growing digital economy, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in its latest jobs situation report on Tuesday, November 24th. Since 2015, 17,000 locals have joined the industry, and as of June this year they make up 71 percent of the se...

Singapore’s Covid-19 vaccination exercise will begin on Dec 30 with healthcare workers at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, followed by the elderly aged 70 and above next February. Vaccinations will roll out to more healthcare institutions in the coming weeks, with public healthcare institutions and private hospitals to arrange for their staff to be vaccinated at ...