I cheered – alongside, I imagine, parents across Singapore – when Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced that government-paid paternity leave would be doubled from the current two weeks to four weeks.
These additional two weeks will first be voluntary for companies to adopt, then later made mandatory.
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