Committee of Supply 2025 debate, Day 6: Gan Siow Huang on building a progressive, inclusive and fair workplace

Career Conversion Programmes (CCPs), which currently cover only full-time jobs, will be expanded from April to support the reskilling of mid-career new hires and employees in jobs with flexi-load arrangements, such as part-time work. Applicants must be reskilled into growth job roles and be employed on permanent or contract terms of at least one year. This means that companies can now tap on CCPs, even if the roles they are hiring for are not full-time. During the training period, Workforce Singapore will fund up to 90 per cent of the worker's salary, capped at S$7,500 per month. Minister of State for Manpower Gan Siow Huang highlighted this key move in parliament on Friday (Mar 7), as part of efforts to empower Singaporeans through schemes and support structures that lower barriers and open new doors of opportunity. These include enhancements to schemes to support vulnerable groups in the job market. To foster inclusive workplaces, the government will extend the Enabling Employment Credit until 2028 and expand the Matched Retirement Savings Scheme to include eligible Singaporeans with disabilities of all ages. To strengthen employment support for ex-offenders, it will extend the Uplifting Employment Credit until 2028.