Singapore granted 35,264 permanent residencies in 2024 — the highest annual total since 2010, and a figure that sent both cautious optimism and careful calculation rippling through the professional-expat community. At Budget 2026, the government went further, signalling a target of approximately 40,000 new PRs per year over the coming five years. The upward trajectory [...]
Singapore's Workplace Fairness Act was passed by Parliament on 8 January 2025, with the companion Workplace Fairness (Dispute Resolution) Act passed on 4 November 2025. Commencement — the date from which employers face legal obligations — is expected by end-2027. That gives employers roughly 18 months to prepare. For most HR managers, that window is [...]
Singapore's Workplace Fairness Act 2025 (WFA) is the most significant piece of employment discrimination legislation the country has ever enacted — and employers have a finite window to prepare before it commences. The first of two bills was passed by Parliament in January 2025; the second, covering dispute resolution, followed in November 2025. Commencement is [...]
For two decades, the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices have been Singapore's main lever against workplace discrimination — non-statutory, non-prescriptive, but enforced through MOM's work-pass privileges and TAFEP's investigative powers. From late 2026 or 2027, that picture changes meaningfully. Most of the substantive expectations under the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices are being [...]