PowerSeraya believes in having a healthy work-life balance as part of the strategy of keeping staff productive, motivated, engaged and loyal. We achieve this through pro-family policies and practices, and the initiatives of the Vibrancy Club, a group of employee volunteers who organise activities that promote workplace health and family life. Recent events include a visit to the Night Safari, a fishing competition and a trip on the Singapore Flyer.

Pro-family practices
Over the years, PowerSeraya has developed pro-familiy policies to cater to the demands of working parents who need to juggle work and family commitments. This is also in line with the government’s recent push for pro-family practices. Some of these include extended maternity and childcare leave. The former was implemented about four months prior to being legislated so that some of our female employees who were due to give birth could benefit from the enhanced policy. In addition, the company also provides childcare sick leave for female employees and paternity leave for male employees which are over and above what is stipulated in the Singapore Employment Act. To encourage staff to have a healthy family life, the Vibrancy Club organises recreational activities which give the employees and their family members ample opportunities to participate in. A Flexible Benefits Plan is also available to give employees a fixed sum per year to cover dental expenses, holiday expenses and children’s education.

Table 9.1: Maternity leave statistics in the company from FY05 to FY07.

Table 9.2 Childcare leave statistics in the company from FY05 to FY06.

Childcare Sick Leave

Table 9.3: Childcare sick leave statistics in the company from FY05 to FY06.

Paternity Leave

Table 9.4: Paternity leave statistics in the company from FY05 to FY 07.