Do you provide certifiable training courses? Get your courses approved under SRP and businesses that send their employees for your courses will receive training allowances.

For who?

• Singapore-registered organisations, including businesses that provide training courses.

For what?

• To enable training providers to submit their certifiable training courses for SRP-funding. SRP gives the employer a training allowance (“absentee payroll”) for every training hour.

How much?

Profile Of Trainee	Absentee Payroll	Mandatory Top-Up By EMPLOYER For Training Conducted OUTSIDE Working Hours
For employees aged 40 years and above with ‘A’ Levels and below	90% of hourly basic salary (capped at S$4.50 per trainee-hour)	10% of hourly basic salary (capped at S$0.50 per trainee-hour)
Other employees	80% of hourly basic salary (capped at S$4.00 per trainee-hour)	20% of hourly basic salary (capped at S$1.00 per trainee-hour)

See:	Examples of Absentee Payroll for training during and outside working hours

• For the employer to get the absentee payroll, the employer must be a Singapore-registered business and the trainees must:
  
  
  • be Singapore Citizens or Permanent Residents
  • attend at least 75% of the course and pass all assessments
  • fully-sponsored by the employer

Things to note

• You can also apply for course fee funding under the Skills Development Fund (SDF). For details, please see Skills Development Fund (SDF) for Training Providers.

Facts & figures

• Since SRP was launched in May 1998, it has achieved 343,546 training places.
  (Source: Singapore Workforce Development Agency, March 2007)

For more info

Skills Redevelopment Programme (SRP)
Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA)