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Parliamentary reply by Minister Indranee Rajah on companies providing the additional voluntary GPPL

2 April 2024

Data on employer take-up of the additional two weeks of voluntary Government-Paid Paternity Leave, which came into effect on 1 January 2024, was unavailable at the time, as fathers have up to one year after their child's birth to use the leave and employers have three months after that to submit claims.

FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF SINGAPORE

WRITTEN REPLY 

TUESDAY, 2 APRIL 2024

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang:

To ask the Prime Minister (a) how many companies have provided the extra two weeks of Government-Paid Paternity Leave announced in Budget 2023; and (b) if this data is not available, whether the Ministry will consider collecting this information.

Ms Indranee Rajah (for the Prime Minister):

The additional two weeks of Government-Paid Paternity Leave currently provided on a voluntary basis came into effect on 1 January 2024. Fathers have up to one year after their child’s birth to use the leave, and employers have three months after that to submit their claims. As such, the data requested is currently unavailable. We are monitoring the utilisation of the voluntary leave provision and will collate the data when available.