SINGAPORE: Employees retrenched during Lazada’s recent layoffs will get “an enhanced support package” following talks between the company and the workers’ union.
The council will develop its annual guidelines on wages and employment-related issues.
The ecommerce platform joins over 1,000 other companies who have pledged to form a Company Training Committee with NTUC’s affiliated unions.
The Singapore-based food science company is one of the first local start-ups to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the union to form a Company Training Committee.
FDAWU played a critical role in the redeployment of workers during the pandemic and pledges to continue working with companies to protect jobs.
NTUC’s e2i introduces several training support programmes to keep hospitality workers employed and plug manpower gaps.
This comes after the company pleaded guilty in December 2020 to underpaying its foreign employees for over two years.
Hotel admin assistant Gina Ng tells her experience on being redeployed to NTUC FairPrice as a means to secure her livelihood.
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