Businesses resume activities in phases as of first week of June.
As Singapore moves to gradually ease its “Circuit Breaker” measures during COVID-19, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced on 19 May 2020 that businesses will be allowed to resume activities in a phased manner.
The Infocomm Technology (ICT) sector — except for businesses participating in retail and construction activities — will be in Phase One of the resumption of activities and may operate from the first week of June 2020.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has laid out the safe management measures and requirements that employers and businesses will need to put in place to resume operations at workplaces. Refer to MOM’s advisory on Requirements for Safe Management Measures at the workplace after Circuit Breaker period, issued on 9 May and updated as of 16 May 2020, for more information.
All employers and businesses, including those in the ICT sector, must comply with the MTI and MOM nation-wide advisories in all workplaces and workplace settings.
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and SGTech have set out additional measures for certain workplace settings specific to the ICT sector.
The workplace settings included in this document are:
- Providing onsite IT services, support or manpower at customers’ premises;
- Data centre operations; and
- ICT retail stores and e-commerce.
- Employers and businesses that have operations applicable to these workplace settings must comply, not only with the measures set up by MTI and MOM, but also with the following additional measures, where applicable.
In support of circuit breaker measures, venue owners have temporarily suspended the Wireless@SG service until further notice.
The following public sites have been affected:
- All 111 hawker centres
- All 31 public libraries
- All 22 bus interchanges
- Community Centres
- Radin Mas CC
- Kolam Ayer CC (turned off from 6PM to 9AM)
- Geylang West CC (turned off from 6PM to 9AM)
- Jalan Besar CC (turned off from 6PM to 9AM)
- Potong Pasir CC (turned off from 6PM to 9AM)
