Baktee and Jonathan Tan
“For the LM, one significant area is how do we help our taxi drivers know more about new technology, future challenges and about things to come … I think it is about exposing them to opportunities where they can know what’s coming ahead of time so they can prepare themselves with appropriate responses.” - NTUC Assistant Secretary-General and National Taxi Association Executive Advisor Ang Hin Kee
“It’s important that businesses transform themselves and workers embrace new jobs. Especially in this uncertain period, it’s important that this message gets through to all workers. All workers, be it rank-and-file or PMEs, everyone should embrace the disruption that is coming at us, pick up new skills and grab any opportunity to upgrade themselves to deal with the changes.” NTUC Assistant Secretary-General and U PME Director Patrick Tay
“At NTUC, we will do more to help SMEs adopt best practices to ensure that we continue to transform and make jobs easier, safer and smarter to attract more workers into these companies. We will continue to work together with government agencies and I am confident we are able to help SMEs adapt to the new norm PM Lee touched on in his speech.” NTUC Assistant Secretary-General and U SME Secretariat Director Yeo Guat Kwang
“Although there are clearly threats to traditional jobs, there are also good examples that if we adapt quickly, relearn and retrain, we can embark on a career that may be even brighter than when we first started off. So there is optimism but it requires the Labour Movement to work closely with workers in this journey. It requires us not only to provide training opportunities but also make sure that we have employers on board and provide employment opportunities.” NTUC Industrial Relations Department (Progressive Wage Model) Director Desmond Choo
“Any industry can be disrupted tomorrow due to technology and globalisation, and the Government, the Labour Movement and the employers need to work closely together to spot changes early and keep growing our economy. Our strong tripartite partnership which has been a crucial economic advantage for us for the past decades will be even more important going forward. While the companies work to make their business resilient, the Labour Movement needs to persuade and facilitate our workers to acquire deeper skills and new skills to do different jobs through the various government programmes such as SkillsFuture." – National Transport Workers’ Union and United Workers of Electronic & Electrical Industries Executive Secretary Melvin Yong
