SINGAPORE - Public healthcare institutions will be helping their employees get refunds for travel and holiday arrangements they had to forgo when their leave was cancelled as a result of the evolving coronavirus situation,The Ministry of Manpower , Singapore National Employers Federation and National Trades Union Congress outlined this in a joint statement on Thursday .
"Some healthcare workers whose leave was earlier approved also had their leave cancelled and they had to cancel air tickets and other holiday bookings they had made," they said. Among the measures, public healthcare institutions will provide their healthcare workers with a letter of proof of an employer's cancellation of leave to support them in seeking refunds from travel agents and in making claims to insurance companies.
The tripartite partners did not give details on how much the public healthcare institutions would help defray. The Straits Times has contacted them for more information on this.