Creating Jobs and Acquiring Skills Together
Jobs are our top priority.
Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited.
To protect workers from the immediate impact of Covid-19, we are providing:
- wage subsidies under the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) to help you keep your jobs
- income relief to self-employed persons and freelancers under the Self-Employed Person Scheme (SIRS)
- financial assistance to retrenched workers or those suffering significant income loss under the Temporary Relief Scheme (TRS) and the Covid-19 Support Grant (CSG)
With the global and our economies hit, we must expect business closures and job losses.
We will spare no effort to protect and create jobs to keep Singaporeans employed. At the same time, we will equip you to take advantage of new opportunities and growing sectors.
We:
- set up the National Jobs Council to oversee this work
- will create 100,000 new job opportunities, comprising jobs, traineeships, mid-career pathways and courses under the SG United Jobs and Skills Programme
All Workers
To help you access job opportunities, we will:
- set up satellite career centres in all HDB towns
- scale up programmes for career conversion and for skills upgrading and mastery with the Next Bound of SkillsFuture
- strengthen safeguards for jobseekers under the Fair Consideration Framework
- provide financial incentives for employers to hire or redeploy their local workers
Workers aged 40 – 60
To boost employment of Singaporeans aged 40 – 60 we will provide:
- extra SkillsFuture credits and heavily subsidised reskilling programmes
- mid-career pathway programmes to help you start new careers
- special incentives for employers to hire you
Senior Workers
We will encourage hiring of senior workers through:
- the Senior Employment Credit
- grants for re-employment
- support for firms and industries to redesign jobs
Workers aged 40 – 60
To boost employment of Singaporeans aged 40 – 60 we will provide:
- extra SkillsFuture credits and heavily subsidised reskilling programmes
- mid-career pathway programmes to help you start new careers
- special incentives for employers to hire you
Senior Workers
We will encourage hiring of senior workers through:
- the Senior Employment Credit
- grants for re-employment
- support for firms and industries to redesign jobs
Young Job Seekers
To help young Singaporeans entering the job market, we will:
- strengthen career support for new graduates
- create structured traineeships with firms
- offer free continuing education and training for you to pick up additional skills and knowledge while the job market recovers
- prepare you for regional opportunities through the Global Ready Talent programme and overseas internships when it is safe to travel again
Lower Wage Workers
We will improve jobs and earnings for lower paid Singaporeans through:
- enhanced Workfare support
- extending the Progressive Wage Model to even more industries
Workers with Disabilities
We will work with employers to hire persons with disabilities, including through the Enabling Employment Credit.