An employee is entitled to 6 days of childcare leave per year if he/she is covered under the Child Development Co-Savings Act. The Child Development Co-Savings Act covers all parents of Singapore citizens, including managerial, executive or confidential staff if all three of the following conditions are met:
i.Child is below 7 years old;
ii.Child is a Singapore Citizen;
iii.Parent must have served his or her employer for a continuous duration of at least 3 calendar months;
or
For a parent who is self-employed, he or she must have been engaged in a particular business, trade, profession for a continuous duration of at least 3 calendar months; and have lost income as a result of not engaging in the trade, business, profession or vocation during the child care leave period.
The first 3 days of childcare leave will be employer-paid and the last three days Government-paid (capped at $500 per day, including CPF). Regardless of the number of children, the total childcare leave entitlement for each parent is capped at six days per year until the year the child turns seven years old.
The number of days of childcare leave that a working parent can benefit from will add up to a total of 42 days over a seven-year period.
If an employee has worked less than a year
The leave year for childcare leave will be any 12-month period as agreed by both employer and employee. If there is no agreement, the leave year will be the calendar year by default.
For employees who are entitled to 6 days of Childcare leave per year, employers may pro-rate the leave based on the duration of employment, subject to a minimum of 2 days. The tables below indicate the number of childcare leave days an employee is eligible for if he/she serves for less than 1 year of service:
For new hires in the first year of employment:
Why are we sponsoring their CCL ? Can someone tell me what the fuck is happening.:*:
