Parental Leave Calculator: Maternity, Paternity, Shared and Childcare Leave

For a Singapore citizen child, a mother who has worked for her employer for at least 3 continuous months before the birth gets 16 weeks of Government-Paid Maternity Leave. For a first or second child the employer pays the first 8 weeks and the Government reimburses the last 8; from the third child the Government reimburses all 16, capped at S$10,000 per 4 weeks. If the child is not a citizen, mothers covered by the Employment Act get 12 weeks, of which the first 8 are paid if they had fewer than 2 living children.

Fathers who are married to the mother get Government-Paid Paternity Leave: 4 weeks for children born from 1 April 2025 (2 weeks before that), taken within 16 weeks of the birth, or within 12 months by agreement. Shared Parental Leave is 6 weeks for children born from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and 10 weeks from 1 April 2026, split half each by default and used within the child's first year. Paternity and shared leave are reimbursed up to S$2,500 a week. Adoptive mothers get 12 weeks of adoption leave for a child under 12 months.

After that, each parent gets 6 days of childcare leave a year until a citizen child turns 7 (2 days for a non-citizen child, under the Employment Act), 2 days of extended childcare leave a year while the youngest citizen child is 7 to 12, and 12 days of unpaid infant care leave a year while the child is under 2. At the National Day Rally 2026 the Government announced that childcare leave will become 8 to 12 days a year depending on the number of children aged 12 and below; the start date is still to be announced. Rules here are MOM's and MSF's as of October 2026.