Data on Private Companies Offering Flexible Care Leave for Healthcare and Mental Wellness from 2022 to 2025

Ms Lee Hui Ying asked the Minister for Manpower from 2022 to 2025, on average each year, what are the number and percentage of private companies that provide flexi-care leave, such as for medical appointments and mental wellness, to employees.

Dr Tan See Leng: Based on the Ministry of Manpower's survey of private companies 1 , an average of 67.8%, or about 10,400 companies, provided unplanned time-off for employees to attend to personal matters, including medical appointments and other caregiving needs, from 2022 to 2024. Over the same period, companies also offered other forms of non-statutory leave, including non-statutory paid family care leave 2 (34.5% or 5,300), paid sick leave without medical certificate 3 (27.9% or 4,600) and additional paid child sick leave 4 (36.4% or 5,500).

Note(s) to Question No(s) 48:

1 Data pertains to private companies each with at least 25 employees, and to permanent employees and employees on term contract of at least one year.

2 Paid Family Care Leave refers to leave granted to employees for taking care of their family members, for example, parents, step-parents, parents-in-law, children, spouse; or to accompany them for medical appointments when they are sick or when the main caregiver is not available.

3 Paid Sick Leave Without Medical Certificate (MC) is collected from 2023 onwards.

4 MC required.