SINGAPORE (May 31): Singapore has registered negative employment growth of 1% on-year on the Monster Employment Index (MEI) for the month of April, according to the latest MEI data released by Monster Worldwide.

The MEI is a monthly gauge of online job posting activity from a range of career and websites and online job listings across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, and serves as an aggregate measure of the change in job listings across the industry.

The decline in growth appears to be led by reduced hiring activity from the government/public sector undertaking (PSU)/defence industry, which plummeted the most (-6%) on an annual basis as compared to its industry peers.

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