Salaries to rise in Taiwan in 2024 (Focus Taiwan)

Salaried workers across Taiwan should see salary increases of 2%-5% on average in 2024, reports Focus Taiwan, citing research from Robert Walters and the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan, which co-sponsored the salary survey. Workers who change jobs can expect increases in pay of 10%-20% on average....

Indian food courier Swiggy to cut another 400 jobs amid IPO push (TechCrunch)

Indian food delivery start-up Swiggy is cutting about 400 jobs, or nearly 7% of its workforce, as the start-up seeks to bring further improvements to its finances ahead of a planned IPO later this year, reports TechCrunch. This is the second round of layoffs at the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which...

Tech Mahindra CEO reports mixed outcome in Q3

India-based IT services giant Tech Mahindra Ltd. reported yesterday that revenue as measured in US dollars fell 5.4% year over year in constant currency to USD 1.57 billion in its fiscal third quarter ended 31 December 2023. The decrease on a reported basis was 5.7%. Still, the company reported USD 381...

Aussie workplace regulator takes café to court for worker underpayment

Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman launched legal action against the former operator of a café in eastern Victoria over underpayments to a worker who was employed on a casual and part-time basis.

Facing the court is sole trader Linda Mary Fielden who formerly operated The Lakes Boatshed Café in Lakes...

Singapore’s workers plan to job hop within two years (Yahoo Finance)

Nearly a third of workers in Singapore (29%) say they plan to leave their current employers within the next two years, reports Yahoo Finance, citing a report published by research and polling company Ipsos. The study highlighted that the intent to leave was prevalent among the 18 to 24-year-old age group,...

China’s HR Ministry vows to vitalise job market (China Daily)

A state-level campaign in China will be carried out from late this month through early April, with the aim of improving employment services for migrant workers, reports China Daily, citing the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. It said that 30 million job openings will be available to the...

Aon provides salary and employment expectations in South East Asia

The median salary rise in Malaysia is expected to remain flat at 5.0% in 2024, same as 2023, despite economic slowdown concerns as employers struggle with talent attrition, according to the latest survey by global professional services firm Aon.

The attrition rates across Malaysia rose to 16.2% in 2023...

Australian job ads dip 14.9% in December

Job advertisements in Australia decreased by 14.9% year-on-year in December 2023 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to ANZ-Indeed job ads data published on ANZ Bank.

On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, job ads rose marginally by 0.1% in December. In trend terms, job ads were down 2.0% over...

Philippines closes office of illegal recruitment firm (Business Mirror)

The Philippines Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) shut down the Manila office of Dubai-based firm Legal Connect Travel Consultancy for offering fake jobs in Italy and Malta to overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and prospective overseas job seekers, reports The Business Mirror. The DMW, through its Migrant...

Chinese job creation hits target but more needs to be done in 2024 (Reuters)

China created 12.44 million new urban jobs last year, meeting its target, but more efforts are needed to prop up employment amid uncertain economic conditions in 2024, reports Reuters, citing the country's human resources ministry. China set a goal to create around 12 million urban jobs in 2023. The...