Resorts World Sentosa layoffs have led to 'stronger Singaporean core', says Manpower Ministry

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THE recent high-profile layoffs at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) have left the integrated resort with a higher share of local staff than before, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in a statement on Thursday, in the wake of complaints from some of the retrenched workers. Read more at The Business Times.

Local employees who volunteered to work at an RWS-managed community-care facility for recovering coronavirus patients were also given extra consideration during the layoffs.

RWS, which is run by mainboard-listed leisure group Genting Singapore, held a “one-off workforce rationalisation” involving an unspecified number of employees in mid-July, citing the “devastating” impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its business. Still, the MOM found that the share of local workers in the RWS casino department’s pit and assistant pit supervisor section - where many of the local complainants had worked - in fact increased from 78 per cent to 86 per cent after the retrenchments.

 

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