Guard against gig economy creating permanent underclass

Assoc Prof Irene Ng, who is from the Dept of Social Work at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Social Service Research Centre at NUS; and Prof Lim Sun Sun from SUTD, discussed the challenges that arise from gig economy employment of low-wage workers. They highlighted that there is a need to implement policy safeguards that can offer these low-wage workers the advantages of long-term employment, and public education to apprise them of the value of upskilling.

• The Straits Times, 7 February 2017, Opinion, pA21