Written Answer to PQ on Breakdown of claims filed at Employment Claims Tribunals from 2021 to 2023

NOTICE PAPER NO. 2473 OF 2024 FOR THE SITTING ON OR AFTER 10 JANUARY 2024
QUESTION NO. 5336 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan

To ask the Minister for Manpower regarding cases filed with the Employment Claims Tribunal for each year from 2021 to 2023, what is the breakdown of the number of cases (i) filed with the tribunal (ii) where there was a hearing (iii) filed by employers and (iv) filed by employees.

Answer:

1.From Jan 2021 to Nov 2023, 3,110 claims were filed at the Employment Claims Tribunals (ECT). Majority of these claims were resolved at the case management conference (CMC). Around 30% of these claims were not resolved at the CMC and were fixed for a hearing.

2.Out of the 3,110 claims, about 86% were filed by employees while the remaining 14% were filed by employers.