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Civil servants to get one day of volunteer leave; public service to adopt 50 charities
Published Thu, Oct 15, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
FROM 2016, civil servants will be able to take one day of volunteer leave per year to volunteer at any institution of public character of their choice.
The move is meant to encourage civil servants to volunteer even more, beyond existing programmes led by their respective agencies.
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