Child Development Co-Savings Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Leave and Benefits
12MB. Paid leave to be treated as taken in certain sequence
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Where an employee is entitled to be absent from work under section 9, 12AA or 12H (whichever is applicable), and under section 12DA, in relation to an April 2025 Scheme child, the employee is treated as consuming the employee’s entitlements in the following sequence, even if the employee does not do so:
employee
“employee” means any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer in Singapore, and includes a workman as defined in the Employment Act 1968 and any officer or employee of the Government;
first, by consuming —
for a natural mother of the child — the employee’s entitlement to the total period of paid maternity leave under section 9;
for an adoptive mother of the child — the employee’s entitlement to the total period of paid adoption leave under section 12AA; or
for a natural father or an adoptive father of the child — the employee’s entitlement to the total period of paid paternity leave under section 12H;
second, by consuming the employee’s entitlement to paid shared parental leave under section 12DA, as if the paid shared parental leave was taken after the total period of paid leave under section 9, 12AA or 12H (as the case may be) was taken.
Any claim, payment or reimbursement in relation to any entitlement mentioned in subsection (1) may be made as if the sequence mentioned in that subsection applies to that claim, payment or reimbursement, as the case may be.
In this section, “total period”, in relation to any entitlement to paid leave, means the total period of paid leave whether expressed as one period or the aggregate duration of several periods.