The Ministry of Manpower (MOM; Malay: Kementerian Tenaga Manusia; Chinese: 新加坡人力部; Tamil: மனிதவள அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies related to the workforceinSingapore.
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1 April 1998; 26 years ago (1998-04-01) |
| Preceding agency |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Singapore |
| Headquarters | 18 Havelock Road, Singapore 059764 |
| Motto | Great Workforce, Great Workplace |
| Employees | 2,239 (2018)[1] |
| Annual budget |  S$3.87 billion (2023) |
| Ministers responsible |
Senior Minister of State Senior Minister of State Minister of State |
| Agency executives |
Second Permanent Secretary Deputy Secretary (Workforce) Deputy Secretary (Workplaces) |
| Child agencies |
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| Website | www |
The Ministry oversees 3 statutory boards, the Central Provident Fund Board, the Singapore Labour Foundation and Workforce Singapore.[2]
The Ministry is headed by the Minister for Manpower, who is appointed as part of the Cabinet of Singapore. The incumbent minister is MP for Marine Parade GRC Tan See Leng from the People's Action Party.
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office | Party | Cabinet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister for Labour (1955–1998) | ||||||
| Lim Yew Hock MP for Havelock (1914–1984) |
6 April 1955 |
3 June 1959 |
LF | Marshall | ||
| Lim | ||||||
| SPA | ||||||
|
Kenneth Michael Byrne MP for Crawford (1913–1990) |
5 June 1959 |
24 September 1961 |
PAP | Lee K. I | |
| Ahmad Ibrahim MP for Sembawang (1927–1962) |
24 September 1961 |
21 August 1962 |
PAP | |||
| Ong Pang Boon MP for Telok Ayer (born 1929) Interim |
21 August 1962 |
18 October 1963 |
PAP | |||
| Jek Yeun Thong MP for Queenstown (1930–2018) |
19 October 1963 |
15 April 1968 |
PAP | Lee K. II | ||
|
S. Rajaratnam MP for Kampong Glam (1915–2006) |
16 April 1968 |
4 July 1971 |
PAP | Lee K. III | |
| Ong Pang Boon MP for Telok Ayer (born 1929) |
5 July 1971 |
5 January 1981 |
PAP | |||
| Lee K. IV | ||||||
| Lee K. V | ||||||
|
Ong Teng Cheong MP for Kim Keat (1936–2002) |
6 January 1981 |
8 May 1983 |
PAP | Lee K. VI | |
| Edmund W. Barker MP for Tanglin (1920–2001) |
9 May 1983 |
6 September 1983 |
PAP | |||
|
S. Jayakumar MP for Bedok (born 1939) |
7 September 1983 |
1 January 1985 |
PAP | ||
| Lee Yock Suan MP for Cheng San (until 1988) MP for Cheng San GRC (from 1988) (born 1946) |
2 January 1985 |
1 January 1992 |
PAP | Lee K. VII | ||
| Lee K. VIII | ||||||
| Goh I | ||||||
| Goh II | ||||||
| Lee Boon Yang MP for Jalan Besar GRC (born 1947) |
2 January 1992 |
31 March 1998 |
PAP | |||
| Goh III | ||||||
| Minister for Manpower (from 1998) | ||||||
| Lee Boon Yang MP for Jalan Besar GRC (born 1947) |
1 April 1998 |
11 May 2003 |
PAP | Goh III | ||
| Goh IV | ||||||
|
Ng Eng Hen MP for Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC (born 1958) Interim until 11 August 2004 |
12 May 2003 |
31 March 2008 |
PAP | ||
| Lee H. I | ||||||
| Lee H. II | ||||||
|
Gan Kim Yong MP for Chua Chu Kang SMC (born 1959) Interim until 31 March 2009 |
1 April 2008 |
20 May 2011 |
PAP | ||
|
Tharman Shanmugaratnam MP for Jurong GRC (born 1957) |
21 May 2011 |
31 July 2012 |
PAP | Lee H. III | |
|
Tan Chuan-Jin MP for Marine Parade GRC (born 1969) Interim until 30 April 2014 |
1 August 2012 |
3 May 2015 |
PAP | ||
|
Lim Swee Say[3] MP for East Coast GRC (born 1954) |
4 May 2015 |
30 April 2018 |
PAP | ||
| Lee H. IV | ||||||
|
Josephine Teo[4] MP for Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC (until 2020) MP for Jalan Besar GRC (from 2020) (born 1968) |
1 May 2018 |
14 May 2021 |
PAP | ||
| Lee H. V | ||||||
| Tan See Leng[4] MP for Marine Parade GRC (born 1964) |
15 May 2021 |
Incumbent | PAP | |||
