According to the debate in parliament(Aug 31), Minister of State for Manpower and Education Gan Siow Huang said that the government has provided aid in generating more job opportunities.
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The programme that is helping generate more jobs in SGUnited Jobs and Skills Programme. She stated that there are 47,000 jobs, 16,000 traineeships and over 10,000 training positions available.
She later added that:
“In circumstances where retrenchment is unavoidable, and an employer has to choose between a foreigner and a Singaporean, I urge the employer to lean towards keeping the Singaporean,” said Ms Gan
“In short, if employers must retrench, retain the Singaporean over the foreigner,” said Ms Gan
This is what some of the netizens have commented on Facebook:
Some are supportive and thanks Ms Gan for speaking this out in Parliament
