With the land border to Malaysia set to fully re-open next Friday (Apr 1), Singapore companies are already seeing a jump in work permit applications from Malaysian workers.https://youtu.be/NnXR4iONXGMSourceWork Pass | Work Permit | S Pass | Employment Pass | Dependant Pass | Long Term Visit Pass | Letter Of Consent
Employers of maids and other foriegn workers on work permits and S Passes will soon need to buy higher medical insurance coverage for their employees.They must buy plans with a minimum annual claim limit of $60,000 for hospitalisation and surgical procedures, up from $15,000 now.But they will no longer need…
Employers in the services and manufacturing sectors will be able to hire foreign workers under work permits instead of S Passes from next year.Currently, some employers hire manual workers on S Passes instead of work permits due to restrictions on the countries where work permit holders can be hired.From September…
Foreign professionals looking to work in Singapore will soon need to pass a new evaluation process that takes into account factors such as their educational qualifications and whether the hiring company does not overly rely on workers from a single nationality.From Sept 2023, new Employment Pass (EP) applicants not only…
Singapore announced new vaccinated travel lanes (VTLs) for Vietnam and Greece on Friday (Mar 4), while extending the quarantine-free arrangement to more cities in Malaysia, Indonesia and India. From Mar 16, the air VTL for Malaysia will extend beyond Kuala Lumpur to include Penang, starting with four daily flights each way…
SINGAPORE: From April, employers will have to buy a primary care plan for migrant workers as part of their work pass requirements, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) announced on Saturday (Feb 19).This will apply to work permit and S Pass holders who live in dormitories, as well as those working in the…
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SINGAPORE - Employers who hire foreign workers will soon have to pay them higher minimum salaries.From September this year, the minimum qualifying salary for new Employment Pass applicants will be raised from the current $4,500 to $5,000. For the financial services sector, which has higher salary norms, the bar will…
Knowing where work pass holders are staying is crucial in cases such as emergency contact tracing. But in the last two years, 175 firms have been fined over $1.1 million in total for failing to promptly update the residential addresses of 960 of them.The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Wednesday…
With the ongoing Omicron wave of Covid-19 infections likely to hit many more people, businesses should implement continuity plans and adhere strictly to safe management measures (SMMs) to minimise operational disruptions.The Ministry of Health (MOH) issued this warning to employers on Friday (Jan 21), noting that the number of Omicron cases has…