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Retrenched...what to do next?
Sat, Nov 15, 2008
The Straits Times

By Mavis Toh & Shuli Sudderuddin

WHEN Mr Chai Choo Sah was retrenched from his job as a yacht storekeeper a month ago, he was not surprised.

For months, business at the company he worked for had been poor, as rich overseas clients - perhaps victims of the current financial turmoil - dropped off. Some 50 colleagues had already been laid off earlier.

With help from the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the 57-year-old father of three children in their 20s, whose wife is a homemaker, got a job as a landscaping technician in about two weeks.

 

 


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