CREATING the best workforce and workplace in the world is the surest path to prosperity in today's volatile world, says parliamentarian and unionist Halimah Yacob.

But Singapore still has some way to go before achieving this, says the veteran MP and deputy secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).

The indefatigable champion of workers, who took over as chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Manpower last week, will scrutinise manpower policies and provide input on how they can be tweaked to keep pace with the vagaries of the economic climate. Continuous learning, she advocates, is the best way forward in these tough times.

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