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A total of 18,800 full-time resident employees aged 25 to 64 received seven days of paid annual leave in their first year of employment in 2023.
In a Parliamentary question (PQ) asked on 5 February, Member of Parliament in Singapore Jamus Lim posed three questions regarding leave entitlements to the Minister for Manpower (MOM). The first question was on the percentage of full-time resident employees receiving only seven days of annual leave from the bottom 20th percentile wage group.
In a written response, MOM shared that in the Employment Act, it is stated that employees are entitled to a minimum of seven days of annual leave in their first year of service with the requirement to work with their employer for at least three months. After which, the employee’s leave entitlement increases by one day with each year of service, up to a minimum entitlement of 14 days.
Covered in earlier PQs dated 14 October and 13 November 2024, there were 18,800 full-time resident employees aged 25 to 64 who received seven days of paid annual leave in their first year of employment in 2023. This formed 1.1% of full-time resident employees aged 25 to 64.
The subsequent two questions were looking into the top five sectors of workers who commonly receive only minimum leave entitlement and the percentage of companies who employed them have an annual revenue exceeding S$10mn.
MOM responded that due to the small pool of persons working less than one year in their current job, detailed estimates such as income, industry and firms’ annual revenue could not be calculated.
READ MORE: Average days of paid annual leave for full-time resident employees in Singapore (by income group)
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