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Budget 2024: Govt ironing out 'temporary financial support scheme' for retrenched workers; details to be unveiled. The announcement by Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong comes a. midst a recent spate of layoffs, including in technology companies like Lazada, and after overall retrenchments more than doubled in 2023 from the year before.

The MIW are pro-business, but now they suddenly show empathy towards the workers who form the largest group of voters for the coming GE.