Singapore: COVID-19 – New anti-discrimination conditions for Employment Agencies

Both employers and recruiters who place candidates with employers should note that, in the face of difficult labour market conditions arising from COVID-19 and the Circuit Breaker movement restrictions affecting the conduct of business, MOM continues policies to strengthen job opportunities for Singaporeans to ensure the foreign workforce complements, and not substitute, the local workforce.

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COVID-19 – Continuation of activities of the Securities Market under the 7+7 easing timetable of the COVID-19 quarantine

The Office of the National Superintendent for Securities issued Notice No. DSNV/CJU/00520 of June 14, 2020, whereby it established the guidelines to continue the activities of the securities market, under the Easing Measures for the National Quarantine Plan (7+7) and the Constitutional State of Alarm generated by the COVID-19 pandemic (“Notice”).

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