Move to recruit Sporeans first a 'major signal' that firms should not go for easy option

"This is the first major signalling (by the Government)...that you must give priority to Singaporeans," said the veteran unionist Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob. "If you look at our history, from the time we became independent to now... we have not had such a signalling."

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