MOM says LBD Engineering and its general manager were charged on 29 Oct under the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act for running a Sungei Kadut factory as a dormitory without a licence from July 2025 to January 2026.
Source: MOM — Company and General Manager Charged Under the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act for Operating an Unlicensed Dormitory (29 Oct 2026)
Singapore’s major workplace injury rate fell to an all-time low of 14.6 per 100,000 workers in the first half of 2026, down from 15.8 a year earlier, according to MOM’s 1H2026 Workplace Safety and Health report. Fatal injuries moved the other way. The fatal injury rate rose to 1.1 per 100,000 workers (21 deaths), up…
On 2 September 2026, MOM arrested four people — two company directors and two staff — from the construction sector over a suspected “phantom worker” scheme. A further 21 people are assisting with investigations. What allegedly happened: the directors are accused of making fraudulent CPF contributions for locals who were never actually employed by their…
Employment kept climbing in the second quarter, up 11,400 — the ministry’s nineteenth straight quarter of growth. But retrenchments rose too, to 4,620 from 3,830 in Q1, and job vacancies slipped to 68,600. Only 54.9% of retrenched residents found new work within six months, MOM’s latest labour market report shows.
From September 2026, MOM has added eight new roles to the Non-Traditional Source (NTS) Occupation List — the list of jobs employers can fill with Work Permit holders from a wider range of source countries. What’s changing The eight added occupations span food services, social services, and air transportation — sectors that have flagged persistent…
From 1 January 2027, employer and employee CPF contribution rates will rise for workers aged 55 to 65 — one of the concrete payroll changes to come out of Budget 2026. What’s changing What employers get in return To soften the cost impact, the CPF Board will automatically provide employers with a CPF Transition Offset…
MOM has issued new haze guidance asking employers to plan the next day’s outdoor work with the PSI forecast and to cut back outdoor work during the day as 1-hour PM2.5 readings rise. At readings of 251 µg/m³ and above, outdoor work should be stopped for vulnerable employees and minimised for everyone else.
