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Retrenched Employees by Industry and Occupational Group, Annual

Retrenchment-Topline, Annual

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Retrenchment-Topline, Annual

Data from Jan 1998 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 16:16 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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

Retrenchment refers to the termination of permanent employees due to redundancy and early termination of term contract employees due to redundancy.

Retrenchment of Permanent Employees refers to the termination of employment of a permanent employee due to redundancy. In the public sector, it includes those who left service under the Special Resignation Scheme that allows redundant non-deployable Civil Service or Statutory Board employees to leave their organisations with compensation.

Retrenchment of Term Contract Employees refers to early termination of term contract employees due to redundancy.

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.

Retrench by Year

Data explorer

RetrenchmentToplineAnnual.csv (27 rows, 653 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Retrench
Text
Retrench Permanent
Text
Retrench Term Contract
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
199832800290903720
19991553014620910
20001195011620330
200127570258401730
200220130190901040
20031726016400860
20041064010190450
20051115010290850
20061309012600480
200785907680920

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
RetrenchretrenchText--
Retrench Permanentretrench_permanentText--
Retrench Term Contractretrench_term_contractText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_23a658ae87fc6fe2c3498220c31cf8b4"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2017). Retrenchment-Topline, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_23a658ae87fc6fe2c3498220c31cf8b4/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

14 Dec 2017

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)