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Written Answer by Mr Lim Swee Say on Companies Benefitting From Flexible Work Arrangements Incentive Under Work-Life Grant

Employment practices
Notice Paper No. 90 Of 2016 For The Sitting On 14 March 2016 
Question No. 74 For Written Answer

MP: Assoc. Prof Daniel Goh Pei Siong

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) how many companies have benefited from the Flexi-Work Arrangements Incentive under the Work-Life Grant; (b) how many of the companies are SMEs; and (c) how many Singaporean employees are utilising Flexi-Work Arrangements in these companies.

Answer

  1. The proportion of employers with at least 25 employees providing at least one form of flexible work arrangement (FWA) has steadily increased from 28% in 2008 to 47% in 2014. The FWA Incentive under the Work-Life Grant was introduced in April 2013 to support employers who are able to sustain regular utilisation of FWAs for more than 20% of their employees. 
  2. As of December 2015, 224 applications have been received. A large majority, about 95%, of the applications were from SMEs.
  3. SMEs would typically take a year or more to track and monitor the FWA utilisation. So far, a quarter of the applicants have claimed the FWA Incentive, covering about 900 Singaporean employees1.

FOOTNOTE

  1. The FWA Incentive requires regular utilisation of FWAs by at least five Singaporean employees and is capped at 25 Singaporean employees per company per year.