全國職工總會(NTUC)秘書長黃志明(惹蘭加由議員)5月5日晚提出"AI轉型不容無就業增長"國會動議(聯署人:Mark Lee、薩克蒂安迪、楊涴凌),要求國會確認AI驅動的增長必須以公平、韌性和人人有機會為錨,新加坡不能出現"無就業增長"。他援引NTUC調查(五分之一受訪者把工作保障列為首要擔憂、56%的PME自認需提升技能)說明工人焦慮,並提出四項實際舉措:建立立足本地的勞動力市場情報與前瞻系統;通過企業培訓委員會(CTC,2019年以來已設立逾3,800個、惠及逾30萬工人)支援企業攜工人轉型,並提議與全國僱主聯合會(SNEF)在三方就業理事會下共同推廣;擴大AI-Ready SG等培訓路徑(目標未來數年逾100萬個培訓名額);以及讓被裁員工有尊嚴地重新站起,包括裁員前向政府提前通報、把技能創前程求職者援助計劃(JSS)覆蓋面從月入中位數約5,000新元上調至PME中位收入水平。發言結束後辯論延至次日繼續。
原文節選(英文)
At 8.29 pm on 5 May 2026, Mr Ng Chee Meng (Jalan Kayu), Secretary-General of NTUC, moved a Motion — also standing in the names of Mr Mark Lee, Mr Saktiandi Supaat and Ms Yeo Wan Ling — that the House recognise the transformative power of AI to drive Singapore's next phase of economic development, anchor AI-enabled growth in fairness, resilience and opportunity for all, equip workers and enterprises to seize new opportunities, and affirm that Singapore must not have jobless growth. Speaking to anxious young graduates, mid-career PMEs and blue-collar workers, he noted that AI is automating routine junior tasks even as it creates new roles; one in five NTUC survey respondents cited job security as their top concern, and 56% of PMEs felt they needed to upskill. He outlined four practical moves. First, build a Singapore-specific system of labour-market intelligence and foresight, combining trade association insights, enterprise data and union sensing. Second, enable enterprises — especially SMEs, which employ about 70% of the workforce — to transform with AI in ways that benefit workers, scaling the Company Training Committee model (more than 3,800 CTCs since 2019, benefiting over 300,000 workers) jointly with SNEF under the new Tripartite Jobs Council; he cited Tan Tock Seng Hospital's AI-enabled PreSAGE fall-risk monitoring system as an example of AI augmenting nursing work. Third, help workers seize new opportunities through e2i's AI Career Coach, NTUC LearningHub skills pathways and AI-Ready SG, which has put more than 4,000 workers through AI training since February, with plans to scale to over one million training places. Fourth, enable displaced workers to bounce back with dignity: advance notification of retrenchments to the Government before the last working day, early deployment of career support through 27 National Career Centres, and expanding SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support coverage from the roughly $5,000 median income closer to PME median income levels. Declaring that "in Singapore, every worker matters", he begged to move; the debate was then adjourned to the next sitting day.