asiaone.com - 1 years ago

SINGAPORE — The Workers Party (WP) and Progress Singapore Party (PSP) said they welcomed moves to provide monetary support to workers who have lost their jobs, and to help parents under the new shared parental leave initiative. At the same time, the two opposition parties urged the Government to make deeper policy reforms, particularly in the provision of public housing. In his maiden National Day Rally speech on Aug 18, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced the SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support scheme, under which unemployed individuals can receive temporary financial support of up to $6,000 over up to six months, subject to training, job coaching and other conditions. In a Facebook post on Aug 19, WP said it was encouraged to see the policy changes announced by PM Wong. It agreed with him that losing a job can seriously destabilise workers and their families, and reiterated the party s previous proposals for a redundancy insurance scheme for retrenched workers to receive up to $1,200 a month for up to six months.

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