{"id":74607,"date":"2026-08-06T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=74607"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:23:10","slug":"mothershipsg-speaking-during-the-workers-partys-economic-motion-on-aug-5-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=74607","title":{"rendered":"@mothershipsg Speaking during the Workers&#8217; Party&#8217;s economic motion on Aug. 5, pa&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mothershipsg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@mothershipsg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the Workers&#8217; Party&#8217;s economic motion on Aug. 5, party chief Pritam Singh reiterated his call for Singapore to legislate minimum retrenchment benefits. He added that retrenchment benefits are important because they support workers and their families at a time when financial obligations are often at their greatest. Such benefits, he said, would complement taxpayer-funded assistance support such as the JobSeeker Support Scheme.  &#8220;A resilient society requires workers who know they will not be left to bear the burdens of economic change alone, because, in line with the call of the labour movement in NTUC no less, while not every job can be protected, every worker deserves protection.&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"mothershipparliament\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/mothershipparliament?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#mothershipparliament<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"tiktoksg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/tiktoksg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#tiktoksg<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"singapore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/singapore?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#singapore<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"news\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/news?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#news<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Mothership - Mothership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Mothership-7670476955234831125?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Mothership &#8211; Mothership<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\/video\/7670476885482327317\" data-video-id=\"7670476885482327317\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mothershipsg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@mothershipsg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the Workers&#8217; Party&#8217;s economic motion on Aug. 5, party chief Pritam Singh reiterated his call for Singapore to legislate minimum retrenchment benefits. He added that retrenchment benefits are important because they support workers and their families at a time when financial obligations are often at their greatest. Such benefits, he said, would complement taxpayer-funded assistance support such as the JobSeeker Support Scheme.  &#8220;A resilient society requires workers who know they will not be left to bear the burdens of economic change alone, because, in line with the call of the labour movement in NTUC no less, while not every job can be protected, every worker deserves protection.&#8221; <a title=\"mothershipparliament\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/mothershipparliament?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#mothershipparliament<\/a> <a title=\"tiktoksg\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/tiktoksg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#tiktoksg<\/a> <a title=\"singapore\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/singapore?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#singapore<\/a> <a title=\"news\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/news?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#news<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Mothership - Mothership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Mothership-7670476955234831125?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Mothership &#8211; Mothership<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p>Tap Video and \ud83d\udd08 To Unmute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\/video\/7670476885482327317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiktok <\/a> Credits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@mothershipsg Speaking during the Workers&#8217; Party&#8217;s economic motion on Aug. 5, party chief Pritam Singh reiterated his call for Singapore to legislate minimum retrenchment benefits&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3408,1891,1024,14072,11386,14787,2336,4041],"class_list":["post-74607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-aug","tag-economic","tag-mothershipsg","tag-motion","tag-pa","tag-partys","tag-speaking","tag-workers","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}