Committee of Supply 2025 debate, Day 5: Jean See on supporting employers and workers in M&As and protecting the workforce in the AI age
Given today’s diversified workforce, does the Ministry of Manpower plan to update the Tripartite Guidelines on Managing Excess Manpower and Responsible Retrenchment? This is so that businesses planning for mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can apply differentiated yet fair approaches to manage layoffs or contract cessations that affect emerging workforce such as persons with disabilities, agency workers, freelancers and migrant workers. NMP Jean See raised this issue in parliament on Thursday (Mar 6). On the topic of artificial intelligence (AI), she pointed out that just as the government supports companies to adopt AI, protection for workers - be they employees or platform workers - must be updated alongside adoption.
Given today’s diversified workforce, does the Ministry of Manpower plan to update the Tripartite Guidelines on Managing Excess Manpower and Responsible Retrenchment? This is so that businesses planning for mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can apply differentiated yet fair approaches to manage layoffs or contract cessations that affect emerging workforce such as persons with disabilities, agency workers, freelancers and migrant workers. NMP Jean See raised this issue in parliament on Thursday (Mar 6). On the topic of artificial intelligence (AI), she pointed out that just as the government supports companies to adopt AI, protection for workers - be they employees or platform workers - must be updated alongside adoption.
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