Hire employees

Hire employees

For companies, you will need to hire an auditor within three months and a company secretary within six months from the date of incorporation of your company.

To hire a local employee, you need to:

• Apply for a CPF Submission Number to make CPF contributions as an employer
• Write a contract which complies with the Employment Act
• Get Work Injury Compensation Insurance for certain groups of employees

*You can consider using Workforce Singapore (WSG)’s MyCareerFuture portal to source for local employees

Every month, you will need to:

• Itemised payslips along with the payroll
• Pay Skills Development Levy
• Make CPF contributions

To hire a foreign employee, you need to:

• Set up a work pass account
• Familiarise with all the rules on hiring of foreign employees including dependency ceiling ratio and foreign worker levy for work permit and S pass, and fair consideration framework for S pass and Employment Passes.
• Apply and obtain appropriate work passes for the foreign employees via Work Permit Online (WPOL) or Employment Pass Online (EPOL)

You will also need to file for taxes for your employees every year.

Read the Tripartite Guidelines for Fair Employment Practices for detailed information on recruitment and selection of employees based on fair selection criteria.