Ministry of Manpower (Singapore)

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 workforce in Singapore.

Ministry of Manpower

Agency overview
Formed	1 April 1998; 27 years ago (1998-04-01)
Preceding agency	Ministry of Labour
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	Tan See Leng, Minister Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State Dinesh Vasu Dash, Minister of State Shawn Huang, Senior Parliamentary Secretary
Agency executive	Ng Chee Khern, Permanent Secretary Kenny Tan, Deputy Secretary (Workforce) Joan Moh, Deputy Secretary (Workplaces)
Child agencies	Central Provident Fund Board Singapore Labour Foundation Workforce Singapore
Website	www.mom.gov.sg
Agency ID	T08GA0019C

Organisational structure

Ministry of Manpower building at Havelock Road, Singapore.

The Ministry oversees 3 statutory boards, the Central Provident Fund Board, the Singapore Labour Foundation and Workforce Singapore.^[2]

Statutory Boards

• Central Provident Fund Board
• Singapore Labour Foundation
• Workforce Singapore

Ministers

The Ministry is headed by the Minister for Manpower, who is appointed as part of the Cabinet of Singapore.

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
	K. M. 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 & Cheng San GRC (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 & Jalan Besar GRC (born 1968)	1 May 2018	14 May 2021		PAP
						Lee H. V
	Tan See Leng[4] MP for Marine Parade GRC & Chua Chu Kang GRC (born 1964)	15 May 2021	Incumbent		PAP
						Wong L. I
						Wong L. II

See also

• Central Provident Fund Board
• Employment in Singapore