{"id":479726,"date":"2026-06-16T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479726\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:50:04","slug":"singapores-total-employment-growth-slows-down-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479726\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s total employment growth slows down in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/asia\/specialisation\/employment-law\/singapore-faces-125-us-tariffs-after-forced-labour-lapses\/577714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proposed 12.5% tariffs<\/a> stemming from the alleged importation of forced labour-made goods to the US remains hanging in Singapore&#8217;s future. The US is set to debate on the proposed actions on July 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking ahead, labour market conditions are expected to remain resilient, although firms may adopt a more cautious approach in hiring and wage increases amid heightened global economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mom.gov.sg\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026\/0615-lmr-1q-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MOM said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labour demand is likely to moderate if external conditions weaken further and elevated global input costs persist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment, retrenchments in Singapore<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment in Singapore remains low and stable in March 2026, with the overall rate at two per cent, according to MOM&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>The resident unemployment rate is at 2.9%, while the citizen unemployment rate is at 3.1%, broadly unchanged from the previous quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposed 12.5% tariffs stemming from the alleged importation of forced labour-made goods to the US remains hanging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,1144,111,139,69,241341,241],"class_list":["post-479726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-singapore-employment","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}