DAILY RATED SINGAPOREAN WORKERS IN GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES/DEPARTMENTS

Dr Kanwaljit Soin asked the Minister for Labour (a) whether the 5,000 or so daily rated Singaporean workers in the ministries and departments are contributing to Central Provident Fund and b) if he will give a gender breakdown of these workers.

Dr Lee Boon Yang: (a) Daily-rated Singaporean workers in Government Ministries and Departments contribute to CPF in accordance with the rates prescribed in the CPF (Government Employees) Regulations, just as in the case of monthly-rated Government employees.

b) While the CPF Board keeps data by gender for the total membership, it does not keep such data on the basis of whether the member is a monthly-rated or daily-rated employee. This is because, like monthly-rated employees, the CPF contributions in respect of daily-rated employees are based on the total wages received for the month. As the rates of contribution and the method of CPF computation are the same for daily-rated and monthly-rated employees, the CPF Board makes no distinction between these two categories of employees in their data base.