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An increase in the minimum qualifying salaries for Employment Passes will take effect from 1 January 2025.

MOM Raises Minimum Qualifying Salary for Employment Passes in 2025

Date
Mar 7, 2024
Author
OrionW
An increase in the minimum qualifying salaries for Employment Passes will take effect from 1 January 2025.
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The Singapore High Court held an employer vicariously liable for copyright infringement by an employee seeking to improve his workplace skills using unauthorised software.

Employer Held Vicariously Liable for Employee Copyright Infringement

Date
Apr 10, 2023
Author
OrionW
The Singapore High Court held an employer vicariously liable for copyright infringement by an employee seeking to improve his workplace skills using unauthorised software.
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Singapore will progressively require all employment pass holders to score at least 40 points under COMPASS, a new points-based system for evaluating applications and renewals.

Overview of COMPASS—the Complementarity Assessment Framework for Employment Pass Applications

Date
Apr 7, 2023
Author
OrionW
Singapore will progressively require all employment pass holders to score at least 40 points under COMPASS, a new points-based system for evaluating applications and renewals.
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The Singapore government announced that COVID-19 safe management measures will be fully lifted from 13 February 2023. This insight provides an update of the changes at the workplace setting.

Lifting of Safe Management Measures at the Workplace

Date
Feb 12, 2023
Author
OrionW
The Singapore government announced that COVID-19 safe management measures will be fully lifted from 13 February 2023. This insight provides an update of the changes at the workplace setting.
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The Singapore High Court reaffirmed that knowledge and experience gained by an ex-employee is not protectable post-employment confidential information and considered whether supplier, cost and price information is confidential.

Singapore High Court Rules on the Scope of Post-Employment Confidential Information

Date
Jun 1, 2022
Author
OrionW
The Singapore High Court reaffirmed that knowledge and experience gained by an ex-employee is not protectable post-employment confidential information and considered whether supplier, cost and price information is confidential.
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Singapore will issue a new work visa (Tech.Pass) to top-tier foreign technolo...

Singapore to Issue New Work Visa to Attract Top-tier Foreign Technology Professionals

Date
Nov 16, 2020
Author
OrionW
Singapore will issue a new work visa (Tech.Pass) to top-tier foreign technolo...
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