Govt's plans to boost births
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my company has nothing
yes nothing at all if your wife is giving birth -
jedamum:
My husband's company have not bad children incentives...eg more childcare leave than the mandated 2 days. While dads can apply for it, there is somehow an unspoken fear that it will affect their appraisal. So even if the government mandate more paternity leave, dads may not fully utilisied it if they do not want to affect their yearly appraisal.
If the boss is a family man himself, the fear may be simply reflect the irrational thinking of kiasu employees :). -
Yes… I agree with tamarind! Most impt is to solve our childcare needs, expenses/money is the BIGGEST problem most parents facing now. Especially when standard of living so high, expensive daily products, increasing of transportation fee and etc… (to be fair, not all companies do practise increment, meaning some parents are not getting more to spend on higher price needs)
I am very lucky that my husband has been contributing since day one… and I also believe nowadays most modern husbands/daddies do their part too and I dont see why we still focusing on that particular "help". -
Not just money, but also time & effort. These increase with no. of kids. With the education system so stressful, it is really 2 is enough.
Not all companies have child MC. And both our companies strictly 14 days per yr, don’t have incremental 1 day every yr after that.
There are 4 days of PSLE marking in Oct. After taking this from annual leave, how about mid yr exams? Minus running errands, really not much left for holidays. And this is just for one kid. The company that I work is very "niaw". -
SINGAPORE: More tax breaks, cash payouts and parental leave will be given to encourage Singaporeans to welcome the stork.
They are among a broad range of measures to be delivered from 1 January 2009 in the hope of boosting the Republic’s flagging birth rate — one of the lowest among developed countries. Total fertility rate in the city—state was just 1.29 last year.
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