Challenges That HR Professionals Face In Singapore

Shifting policies

Singapore's employment laws have historically been employer-friendly. In the early days of Singapore's development, this was crucial to attract multi-national corporations to Singapore.

However, in the past decade, there has been a shift towards greater employee rights as well as greater protection of the Singapore core workforce. Examples of greater employee rights are the extension of maternity leave periods, and the introduction of paternity leave which hitherto did not exist. Another example involves Singapore's main employment legislation, which once protected mostly blue collar workers but has now been expanded to protect junior professional and managers earning below a certain threshold monthly income.