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Written Answer by Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister for Manpower, to Parliamentary Question on CPF contributions for student interns

Employment practices

NOTICE PAPER NO. 1096 OF 2018 FOR A SITTING AFTER 9 MARCH 2018

QUESTION NO. 799 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan

To ask the Minister for Manpower whether employers are made to contribute CPF for the hiring of apprentices and interns from (i) ITEs/polytechnics (ii) autonomous universities (iii) private education providers/institutions and (iv) private universities.

Answer

  1. In the case of students from ITE, polytechnics or autonomous universities, employers do not need to contribute CPF if the student is employed by them for training that is approved by their institutions.
  2. For students from private education providers or private universities, employers are exempted from making CPF contributions only if the student is: (i) enrolled in a full-time programme subsidised by the Ministry of Education (MOE); and (ii) employed by them for training that is approved by their institution. The list of such programmes may be found on the MOE website.