Put in place enhanced leave policies
Appoint a senior management member to champion work-life harmony
Discuss suitable arrangements with employees on caregiving responsibilities
Establish and communicate its work-life harmony policy to employees
Regularly review the effectiveness of the work-life programmes.
The new guidelines were announced at the Alliance for Action (AfA) on Work-Life Harmony, and are led by Ministry of Manpower (MOM), Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) and National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), as well as Tripartite Alliance Limited (TAL). [Browse all the Tripartite Standards here]
Minister of State for Manpower, Gan Siow Huang launched the Tripartite Standards, where she stressed the importance of three of the seven practices: The Tripartite Standard on Flexible Work Arrangement is key to work-life harmony and it is one of the key prerequisites for the adoption of the TS-WLH.
Here are 11 key themes which emerged.
1. Cushioning petrol duty hikes
As part of measures to shift towards a greener and sustainable Singapore for all generations, petrol duty rates will be raised by 15 cents per litre for premium petrol and 10 cents per litre for intermediate petrol.
The Government will set aside $113 million to provide rebates for petrol and petrol-hybrid vehicles, to ease the transition following the hike.
There will be a 15 per cent road tax rebate for owners of private cars for one year, and a 60 per cent rebate for those owning motorcycles. Owners of commercial vehicles will get a 100 per cent tax rebate for a year.
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Published: 02 February 2021
Getting employees to report to the workplace even though they can perform their work from home? Or are your safe distancing markers a bit vague in areas where employees might gather? If so, you could be guilty of breaching safe management measures (SMM).
Responding to a query from
Human Resources Online, a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) spokesperson shared that the two most common violations of SMM since they were implemented were:
Companies having employees reporting to the workplace despite them being able to perform their work from home.
Failing to put clear safe distancing markers at areas in the workplace where employees might gather.