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Employment practices

Find out about employment rights and conditions under the Employment Act, leave, public holidays, fair employment, managing employment disputes and salary related claims for employers and employees.

• Employment Act

  Learn about the Employment Act, who it covers and Workright.

• Platform Workers Act

  Find out who the Platform Workers Act covers, the protections it provides for platform workers, and the responsibilities it places on platform operators and platform workers.

• Managing employment disputes at the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM)

  Services offered by TADM for employees and employers to file salary and dismissal related claims and employment disputes.

• Leave

  Eligibility and entitlements for leave, including maternity leave, childcare leave, annual leave and sick leave.

• Public holidays

  View Singapore's public holidays for 2024, 2025 and 2026.

• Workplace grievances

  What to do if you feel victimised at work. Guidelines for employers for handling workplace grievances.

• Contract of service

  What to include in contract of service and KETs, and use KETs verification tool to check compliance with Employment Act.

• Employment records

  Requirements for maintaining employment records for employees.

• Young persons and children

  Guidelines for hiring children and young persons, including suitable work and working hours.

• Hours of work, overtime and rest day

  Hours of work, breaks, overtime pay and rest day under the Employment Act.

• Part-time employment

  Entitlements for part-time employees in accordance with the Employment Act, including overtime, rest days, public holidays and leave.

• Public holidays: entitlement and pay

  Gazetted public holidays, holiday pay, pay for working on public holidays and time off in lieu.

• Responsible re-employment

  Eligibility for re-employment, negotiating a re-employment contract and handling disputes.

• Retirement

  Minimum retirement age and rights, appeal against unfair dismissal.

• Cost-saving measures and retrenchment

  Consider cost-saving measures to manage excess manpower.

• Salary

  Salary payments, allowable salary deductions, calculating salary and variable wage components.

• Termination of employment

  Termination with or without notice, termination due to misconduct, appealing an unfair dismissal.

• Transfer of employment

  Your rights during a transfer, obligations of your existing and new employers, and handling disputes.

• Progressive Wage Model

  Wage structure which helps increase wages of workers through upgrading skills and improving productivity.

• Central Provident Fund

  Find out about CPF, who is entitled to CPF contributions and employers' obligations.

• Uplifting our lower-wage workers

  Support measures for our lower-wage workers, through Progressive Wages, Workfare, Workcare and Workright.

• Silver Support Scheme

  Provides additional support for seniors who had low incomes during their working years and now have less in their retirement.

• Schemes for employers and employees

  Funding and support for employers and employees. Includes Workfare and portable medical benefits.

• HR Industry Transformation Plan

  Roadmap to strengthen the HR profession and HR services in Singapore.

• HR Industry Transformation Advisory Panel

  Provides recommendations to build strong HR industry.

• Fair Consideration Framework

  Requirements for all employers to consider workforce in Singapore fairly for job opportunities.

• Flexible work schedule

  For exemption from Employment Act requirements on overtime, rest day and public holiday pay.

• Good work practices

  Include strategies for work-life harmony, flexible work arrangements, fair employment and best sourcing.

• SGSecure@Workplaces

  What you can do to prepare against terrorism and build a resilient and cohesive workforce.

• Skills, training and development

  Continuing education and training, skills in demand and human resource programmes.

• Trade unions

  About trade unions in Singapore, trade union resources and the trade union directory.

• Tripartism in Singapore

  Learn about the tripartite partners, tripartite committees and initiatives and tripartite guidelines.

• ILO and MOM

  Singapore's involvement in the ILO, including conventions ratified and the ILO-MOM Partnership Agreement.

• Employers convicted under Employment Act

  ​List of employers convicted for offences under the Employment Act.

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