By Goh Chin Lian

THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) is helping businessmen to suss out Government programmes to ride out the recession.

It held its first briefing on the Skills Programme for Upgrading Resilience (Spur) for 120 company representatives on Tuesday.

Spur is a $600 million scheme which pays part of workers' wages while they are on training. Its goal is to minimise layoffs.

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