You should continue to pay your NSman employee what you would normally pay him per your regular pay schedule, as though he had not been away for ORNS activity. This amount should include the full sums of their basic salaries and fixed allowance components that he is eligible for, as well as the additional payments (e.g., overtime pay) or regular variable payments (e.g., transport allowances, commissions) typically paid to him on a monthly basis. In terms of additional and/or variable payments, your company can choose to determine the amount you would have typically paid to the NSman, based on an average of the NSman’s past regular variable payments received prior to his ORNS activity.

The amount MINDEF reimburses to employers is an automatically-generated estimate using CPF Ordinary Wages and Additional Wages (AW) data submitted by employers to the CPF Board. This consists of (a) CPF Ordinary Wages (OW) data; and (b) the monthly average of the AW received in at least 8 of the last 12 months after removing the two highest monthly AW values which are likely to be irregular payments such as bonuses. This amount may not exactly match the amount paid to your employees as it is estimated based on CPF contributions in the past year.