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SINGAPORE: Singaporean investment firm Commonwealth Capital and seafood restaurant Jumbo Group have come forward to offer jobs to recently laid off Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) employees, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Monday. (September 14).
The two companies join EtonHouse International Education Group, which recently also promised jobs to those affected by the recent SIA Group downsizing exercise. Together, the three firms offer more than 200 positions.
Hit by the impact of COVID-19, the SIA Group announced last week that it needed to cut around 4,300 positions across its three airlines in Singapore and abroad.
The number of affected employees could be reduced to about 2,400, the group said on Thursday, “mitigated” by measures such as a March hiring freeze, an early retirement plan for ground crew and pilots and a voluntary release plan. for the cabin crew.
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TODAY reported Friday that the international school group EtonHouse is offering more than 100 teaching and administration positions to recently laid off SIA staff.
“I am also pleased to share that in the wake of this, Commonwealth Capital and Jumbo are also ready to offer 50 positions each to these SIA staff,” Chan said Monday.
In response to CNA inquiries, Jumbo said it has pledged to hire 50 laid off SIA employees, with priority for Singaporeans.
“Our HR team is still evaluating the right positions, with a priority for Singaporeans,” said Jumbo CEO Ang Kiam Meng.
CNA has reached out to EtonHouse and Commonwealth Capital for comment.
In addition, the Singapore Restaurant Association (RAS) is also working with its members to offer more than 6,000 positions to laid off SIA Group staff, Chan said.
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“This is how we intend to help each other at this very difficult time, with the government associating our companies, and also our companies associating unions to see how we can locate displaced workers from a company or sector to adjacent companies.” adjacent sectors, “said Mr. Chan.
He added that this was so that workers could “continue to preserve the hard-earned capabilities they have built over the years.”
Chan spoke to the media during a visit to chipmaker AEM on Monday, when the government gave an update on how it was supporting job opportunities in the precision engineering sector.
