Employment Bill
Table of Contents
Long Title
Enacting Formula
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title and commencement
2 Interpretation
3 Appointment of officers
4 Rules and orders
5 Minister may restrict application
6 Existing law not affected
7 Invalidity of contracts of service
Part II CONTRACTS OF SERVICE
8 Illegal terms of contract of service
9 Termination of contracts
10 Notice of termination of contract
11 Termination of contract without notice
12 Contractual age
13 When contract deemed to be broken by employer and employee
14 Misconduct of the employee
15 Employment of a person after age of fifty-five years
16 Termination of employee threatened by danger
17 Liability on breach of contract
18 Contract of service not to restrict rights of employees to join, participate in or organise trade unions
19 Change of employer
20 Offence
Part III PAYMENT OF SALARY
21 Fixation of salary period
22 Time of payment
23 Payment on dismissal or termination by employer
24 Payment on termination by employee
25 Income tax clearance
26 Payment to be made during working hours
27 No unauthorised deductions to be made
28 Authorised deductions
29 Deductions for absence
30 Deductions for damages for loss
31 Deductions for accommodation
32 Recovery of advances and loans
33 Deductions not to exceed fifty per centum of salary
34 Priority of salary to other debts
35 Offence
Part IV REST DAYS, HOURS OF WORK, HOLIDAYS AND OTHER CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
36 Application of Part IV
37 Rest day
38 Work on rest day
39 Hours of work
40 Task work
41 Shift work
42 Holidays
43 Annual leave
44 Sick leave
45 Payment of retrenchment benefit
46 Retirement benefit
47 Payment of bonus
48 Interpretation
49 Restrictions on night work
50 Hours of work of children and young persons
51 Children and young persons not to be employed on rest days
52 Power to suspend application of Part IV
53 Offences
Part V THE TRUCK SYSTEM
54 Agreements to pay salary otherwise than in legal tender illegal
55 Agreements as to place and manner, etc., of spending salary illegal
56 Salary to be paid entirely in legal tender
57 Recovery of salary not paid in legal tender
58 Interest on advances forbidden
59 Remuneration other than salary
60 Shops and canteens
61 Penalties
62 Proceedings may be taken against actual offender
63 Payment of salary through bank
64 Limitations on application of Part V
Part VI CONTRACTORS AND CONTRACTING
65 Liability of principals, contractors and sub-contractors for salary of workman
66 Registration of contractors and sub-contractors
Part VII DOMESTIC SERVANTS
67 Minister may apply Act to domestic servants
Part VIII EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG RERSONS
68 Employment on completion of twelfth year
69 Employment under injurious conditions
70 Employment on vessel
71 Employment in industrial undertaking
72 Employment on machinery
73 Employment on electrical apparatus
74 Employment underground
75 Minimum rates of salary may be prescribed
76 Approved employment
77 Regulations regulating employment
78 Offences
79 Power of Juvenile Court in respect of children or young persons requiring care or protection
Part IX REGISTRATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS EMPLOYED IN INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS
80 Certificate of Registration
81 Application for Certificate
82 Enquiries by commissioner
83 Issue of Certificate
84 Medical examination
85 Validity of Certificates
86 Calculation of age
87 Cancellation and alteration of Certificate
88 Certificate of age
89 Offences
90 Employer to keep Certificate of Registration
91 Employer to give token to child or young person
92 Penalty for failure to keep Certificate
93 Certificate to be returned to child or young person leaving employment
94 Commissioner to keep register
95 Fees
Part X EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
96 Length of benefit period
97 Payments to include rest days
98 Payment of maternity allowance
99 Payment of benefit on death of female workman before confinement
100 Notice of confinement
101 Dismissal during absence prohibited
102 Employment after confinement
103 Forfeiture of allowance
104 Right to benefit unaffected by notice of dismissal in specified circumstances
105 Claim from one employer only
106 Contracting out
107 Offences
108 Employment underground
Part XI EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE
109 Employment exchange
110 Only citizens to be registered
111 Penalty
112 Control of employment
Part XII HEALTH, ACCOMMODATION AND MEDICAL CARE
113 Duty to provide proper quarters and sanitary arrangements
114 Buildings to conform with requirements of law
115 Insanitary quarters
116 Water supply
117 Weekly inspection of quarters
118 First-aid equipment
119 Employer to maintain clinic or dispensary
120 Offences
Part XIII REGISTERS, RETURNS AND OTHER DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS
121 Register of employees
122 Record of workmen
123 Display of notice board showing designation of employer
124 Display of notice of working hours and days
125 Returns
126 Commissioner may call for further returns
127 Power to call for returns, books, etc.
128 Service of requisitions
129 Penalties
130 Compounding of offences
131 Returns not to be published or disclosed
Part XIV INSPECTION
132 Inspections
133 Notice to employer of presence of Inspecting Officer
134 Powers of Inspecting Officer
135 Inspection Report Book
136 Inspecting Officer not to reveal secrets
137 Offences
Part XV GENERAL
138 Wrongful detention of employee
139 Employee not answerable for debt, default or miscarriage of another
140 Obstruction of employee by employer
141 Seats for employees engaged in retail trade or business
142 Punishment for obstruction
143 Penalties
144 Penalty for fraudulently inducing employee to emigrate
Part XVI CLAIMS, COMPLAINTS AND INVESTIGATIONS INTO OFFENCES
145 Commissioner’s power to inquire into complaints
146 Prohibiting order by Commissioner to third party
147 Right of appeal
148 Fees and enforcement of orders
149 Procedure for making and hearing claims
150 Joining of claims
151 Jurisdiction of courts not affected
152 Employee’s remedy when employer about to abscond
153 Investigations of complaints and offences
154 Procedure after enquiry
155 Cost of proceedings
Part XVII PROCEDURE AND REGULATIONS
156 Officers to be public servants
157 Place of employment deemed to be a public place
158 Jurisdiction of Magistrate’s and District Courts
159 Right to hearing
160 Onus of proof
161 Civil proceedings not barred
162 Power to deal with evidence taken down by another officer
163 Application of fines
164 Imprisonment to be in discharge of fine, compensation, etc.
165 Recovery of money as fines
166 Service of summons
167 Power to make reciprocal provisions between Singapore and Malaysia for the service, execution and enforcement of summonses, warrants and orders
168 Power to make regulations
169 Power to amend Schedules
170 Repeal
Explanatory Statement
Expenditure of Public Money
Table of Derivations