On Thursday, the Public Service Division (PSD) in the Prime Minister’s Office stated that all civil servants will receive a year-end bonus of one month’s salary. Civil servants in junior grades – equivalent to MX15 and MX16, as well as those in OSS (Operations Support Scheme) Grades III to V – will get an additional one-time payment of $500.
The government will continue to pay the non-pensionable annual allowance of one month, more commonly known as the 13th month bonus, to all civil servants. The bonus or annual variable component (AVC) recognises the sustained hard work and diverse contributions of officers in the fight against COVID-19.
December, therefore, will be a litmus test for Singapore. If the latest easing of curbs does not result in a surge of seriously ill patients needing hospitalisation, it will be a signal that it is time to switch from treating Covid-19 as pandemic to endemic, says senior health correspondent Salma Khalik.
The first quarantine-free flight from Singapore landed in Australia on Sunday.
