Non-compete clauses have long existed in a legal grey zone in Singapore. Technically prima facie unenforceable, they are routinely included in employment contracts across industries — often without a genuine business case to support them. That is about to change. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM), together with the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the [...]
Singapore's Workplace Fairness Act (WFA) was enacted by Parliament in two parts — the primary bill on 8 January 2025 and the Workplace Fairness (Dispute Resolution) Bill on 4 November 2025 — with commencement expected at the end of 2027. The gap between enactment and commencement is deliberate: it gives Singapore's 280,000-plus employers time to [...]
Singapore's Workplace Fairness Act (WFA) is the country's first binding legislative framework against workplace discrimination — and while it does not take effect until end-2027, the two-year runway is shorter than it looks. Building a compliant grievance procedure, training managers on eleven protected characteristics, auditing recruitment practices, and updating employment documentation all take time, particularly [...]
Singapore's employment landscape crossed a significant threshold when the Workplace Fairness Bill was passed in Parliament on 8 January 2025. The legislation formalises what the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices (TGFEP) have long encouraged: merit-based hiring, transparent grievance handling, and explicit legal protection against discrimination on protected grounds. For many employers in Singapore, the [...]
Singapore's employment law landscape will change fundamentally by end-2027. The Workplace Fairness Act Singapore 2025 — Singapore's first statutory anti-discrimination law specifically focused on employment — was passed in two bills in January and November 2025 and is expected to commence by end-2027 for employers with 25 or more employees. Smaller employers with 5 to [...]
Singapore passed its first codified anti-discrimination employment statute — the Workplace Fairness Act 2025 (WFA) — in January 2025. A companion piece, the Workplace Fairness (Dispute Resolution) Act 2025, followed in November 2025. Together, these two statutes represent the most significant shift in Singapore's employment law framework in a generation. The WFA is expected to [...]
Singapore passed the Workplace Fairness Act 2025 (WFA) in January 2025 — its first codified statutory anti-discrimination employment law. The Act is expected to commence by end-2027 for employers with 25 or more employees, giving businesses roughly 18 months from today to prepare. That timeline sounds comfortable, but the preparation required is substantive: updating hiring [...]
Singapore's Workplace Fairness Act 2025 (WFA), passed by Parliament in February 2025, marks a fundamental shift in Singapore employment law. For the first time, anti-discrimination protections are not merely tripartite guidelines or administrative recommendations — they are binding statutory obligations backed by a dedicated tribunal and penalties of up to SGD 50,000 per violation. The [...]