share on
Employers must observe the public holiday provisions of the Employment Act, especially for payment for work done on a public holiday.
Singapore's Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has confirmed the dates for the 11 gazetted public holidays for 2024. They are:
- New Year’s Day - 1 Jan 2024 - Monday
- Long weekend
- Chinese New Year
- 10 Feb 2024 - Saturday
- 11 Feb 2024 - Sunday
- Long weekend: Monday, 12 Feb 2024, will be a public holiday in lieu of Sunday.
- Good Friday - 29 Mar 2024 - Friday
- Long weekend
- Hari Raya Puasa - 10 Apr 2024 - Wednesday
- Labour Day - 1 May 2024 - Wednesday
- Vesak Day - 22 May 2024 - Wednesday
- Hari Raya Haji - 17 Jun 2024 - Monday
- Long weekend
- National Day - 9 Aug 2024 - Friday
- Long weekend
- Deepavali - 31 Oct 2024 - Thursday
- Christmas Day - 25 Dec 2024 - Wednesday
As listed above, workers in the nation will enjoy a total of five long weekends, namely, for New Year's Day, Lunar New Year, Good Friday, Hari Raya Haji, and National Day.
Employers must observe the public holiday provisions of the Employment Act, especially for payment for work done on a public holiday.
Employees covered by the Employment Act are entitled to the 11 paid public holidays indicated above. Employers and employees may mutually agree to substitute a public holiday for another working day.
Employees who are required to work on a public holiday are entitled to an extra day’s salary at the basic rate of pay, in addition to their gross rate of pay for that day.
Employers also have the option of granting time-off-in-lieu, based on a mutually agreed number of hours, for working on a public holiday for the following group of employees:
- Workmen earning more than S$4,500 a month;
- Non-workmen earning more than S$2,600 a month; and
- All managers and executives.
Thank you for reading our story! If you have any feedback, feel free to let us know — take our 2023 Readers' Survey here.
Lead image / Shutterstock
share on
Follow us on Telegram and on Instagram @humanresourcesonline for all the latest HR and manpower news from around the region!
Related topics
