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Employees on Short Work-Week or Temporary Layoff - Annual

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM Before 2006, data pertain to private sector establishments (each with at least 25 employees). From 2006 onwards, it also includes the public sector.

Data from 1998 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

Data explorer

EmployeesonShortWorkWeekorTemporaryLayoffAnnual.csv (28 rows, 629 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Total Text	Short Work Week Text	Temporary Layoff Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1998	17810	14770	3040
1999	3190	2700	490
2000	2170	1490	680
2001	49980	46930	3060
2002	22170	19910	2260
2003	17880	16060	1820
2004	6410	5600	810
2005	4250	3980	270
2006	3040	2400	640
2007	1700	1520	190

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Total	total	Text	-	-
Short Work Week	short_work_week	Text	-	-
Temporary Layoff	temporary_layoff	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_46b49c3bf00d87eaa24441f339387467"
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. (2026). Employees on Short Work-Week or Temporary Layoff - Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_46b49c3bf00d87eaa24441f339387467/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_li_mei@mom.gov.sg samantha_teo@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)