Parental leave enhancements add to recent slew of family-friendly measures
- by autobot
- Aug. 18, 2024
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Singapore’s birth rate has dropped in the past decade, with the total fertility rate of the resident population falling from 1.19 children per woman in 2013 to a historic low of 0.97 in 2023. Enhancements to parental leave announced at National Day Rally 2024 on Aug 18 are the latest in the slew of measures the Government rolled out in recent years to arrest the declining birth rate. They build on goodies put forward in Budgets 2023 and 2024 to support marriage and parenthood. This is what has been done so far: