Written Answer to PQ on MRN compliance since Jun 2025

NOTICE PAPER NO. 823 OF 2026 FOR THE SITTING ON 5 MAY 2026
QUESTION NO. 2151 FOR ORAL ANSWER

MP: Mr Fadli Fawzi

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) since June 2025, how many mandatory retrenchment notification (MRN) submissions have been received; (b) of these, how many have been submitted later than the requisite period of five working days after affected employees were notified; and (c) whether this represents an increase over previous years.

Answer:

From June 2025 to March 2026, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) received around 6,100 Mandatory Retrenchment Notification (MRN) submissions. Of these, 1,170 were submitted later than the requisite period of five working days after affected employees were notified.

2 This represents a compliance rate of about 80%, which is an improvement from the 2022 to 2025 average of about 70%.