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Jamus Lim highlights challenges faced by middle-aged PMETs during Sengkang house visits 

Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim has spotlighted the difficulties confronting middle-aged PMETs, including unemployment, foreign job competition, and age discrimination, during his Sengkang estate outreach following his re-election in GE2025.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/06...se-visits/

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Title: Jamus Lim highlights challenges faced by middle-aged PMETs during Sengkang house visits
 
Source: The Online Citizen
 
Source Details: https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/06...se-visits/
 
Publication Date: June 23, 2025
 
Author: Not explicitly stated, but the article is about statements made by Jamus Lim.
 
Article Summary:
 
Theme: The article focuses on the economic challenges faced by middle-aged Professionals, Managers, Executives, and Technicians (PMETs) in Singapore, as highlighted by Workers' Party MP Jamus Lim during his recent house visits in Sengkang.
 
Core Points:
 
- Following his re-election in the 2025 General Election, MP Jamus Lim conducted house visits in Sengkang, focusing on consecutive blocks within a single precinct to better understand local concerns.
- During these visits, he encountered a couple who had both recently been retrenched, illustrating the difficulties faced by middle-aged PMETs. Their situation exemplified a "triple whammy": exclusion from jobseeker support schemes due to income ceilings, increased competition (including from foreign workers), and age discrimination.
- The article cites data from the Ministry of Manpower showing slowed employment growth and a slight increase in the resident unemployment rate in Q1 2025, particularly affecting outward-oriented sectors that employ many PMETs.
- Lim advocates for broader access to redundancy insurance, mandated retrenchment benefits for long-serving employees, and a structured "redundancy-retraining-reemployment" pathway to support middle-aged PMETs in transitioning to new roles. This is a policy the Workers' Party has long championed.
 
Phenomenon: The article highlights the specific case of a retrenched couple in their 50s to illustrate the broader challenges faced by middle-aged PMETs in Singapore, including income limitations affecting access to government support, competition from foreign workers, and subtle age discrimination in hiring practices. The situation is presented as a significant concern requiring policy interventions beyond existing programs like SkillsFuture and Adapt and Grow.

[Tangsen]

How Jamban Lim knows ... he never work in before?

[Napoleon Porlumpar]

no need lah..................66% of these PMETs voted to lose their jobs.................respect their wishes..........

[Tangsen]

no need lah..................66% of these PMETs voted to lose their jobs.................respect their wishes..........

No leh, I voted for PAP, can retire but still gainfully employed leh