Short Work-Week & Temporary Layoffs By Industry And Occupational Group, Quarterly

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 14:08 SGT

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Short Work-Week are employees whose normal number of working days per week has been temporarily reduced due to lack of work, at any time during the reference period.

Temporary Lay-Offs are employees whose services are suspended temporarily due to lack of work, at any time during the reference period. They may or may not have been paid during this period.

Before 2006, the Labour Market Survey covers private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees. From 2006 onwards, the survey also covers the public sector.

Data are rounded to the nearest 10. Hence, they may not add up to the total.

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import requests
          
collection_id = 680          
url = "https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/collections/{}/metadata".format(collection_id)
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())