Deep Dive Podcast: Budget 2025 help for larger families is neither reward nor incentive, says Indranee Rajah

They need time not just to recover, but obviously to put in place the processes to adjust… if somebody is out of the workplace for, let’s say, even three, four, (or ) five weeks. And the company is stuck if one parent spends all six days this time, or one parent spends all ten. They need to remove and protect up with someone. &nbsp,

The employers would really appreciate some extra time, according to the Singapore Business Federation and SNEF ( Singapore National Employers Federation ), which we had a lot of discussions with. But after taking on board their opinions, we split it into six and four, more than putting it whole 10 ( week )- as we wanted to.

Having done that, if you go and load them up with additional childcare ( leave ) on top of that, then they’ll be like,” But who’s in the office left to work”? So we’re like, okay, one step at a time. &nbsp,