全国职工总会(NTUC)秘书长黄志明(惹兰加由议员)5月5日晚提出"AI转型不容无就业增长"国会动议(联署人:Mark Lee、萨克蒂安迪、杨涴凌),要求国会确认AI驱动的增长必须以公平、韧性和人人有机会为锚,新加坡不能出现"无就业增长"。他援引NTUC调查(五分之一受访者把工作保障列为首要担忧、56%的PME自认需提升技能)说明工人焦虑,并提出四项实际举措:建立立足本地的劳动力市场情报与前瞻系统;通过企业培训委员会(CTC,2019年以来已设立逾3,800个、惠及逾30万工人)支持企业携工人转型,并提议与全国雇主联合会(SNEF)在三方就业理事会下共同推广;扩大AI-Ready SG等培训路径(目标未来数年逾100万个培训名额);以及让被裁员工有尊严地重新站起,包括裁员前向政府提前通报、把技能创前程求职者援助计划(JSS)覆盖面从月入中位数约5,000新元上调至PME中位收入水平。发言结束后辩论延至次日继续。
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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.