1 in 4 workers benefiting from NTUC’s CTC Grant are professionals, managers and executives: Ng Chee Meng

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industry prospects.\nNTUC noted that it had formed over 2,000 CTCs as at March 2024, and is on track to set up 2,500 by 2025.\nMr Ng said CTC Grant projects like those at ST Engineering Land Systems are a win-win arrangement that improve employee motivation due to the increased efficiency they can bring to jobs and the higher pay these entail.\n“I’m really happy to note also that NTUC’s move towards representing professionals, managers and executives is taking a new step, because within this uplifting of working people, PMEs benefit too,” he added.\n\n\n\n\n\nMore On This Topic\n\n \n\n1,500 workers to get extra 5.2% pay raise on average through NTUC grant for firms to transform \n\n\n\n \n\nTraining allowance, funding for second degrees among ideas NTUC moots after public consultation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMr Ng’s also witnessed another ST Engineering Land Systems initiative put in place with the help of the CTC grant – a three-dimensional scanning system used to develop virtual 3D 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