Employment (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 21/1980

Read the first time on 31st October 1980.

An Act to amend the Employment Act (Chapter 122 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Employment (Amendment) Act, 1980, and shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of July 1980.

Amendment of section 46

2. Section 46 of the Employment Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and substituting the following: —

“(a)	an annual wage supplement of an amount specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (5) of this section;”;

(b)

by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (12) and substituting the following: —

“(a)	an annual wage supplement of an amount exceeding the equivalent of three months’ wages of an employee; or”;

(c)

by deleting the comma at the end of paragraph (d) of subsection (12) and substituting the word “; or”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph: —

“(e)	any money, in whatever way it may be described, in addition to the amount of the annual wage supplement specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (5) of this section,”;

(d)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (12), the following subsection: —

“(12A) Nothing in paragraph (e) of subsection (12) of this section shall be construed as applying to any payments made by an employer to an employee under subsection (13) of this section.”;

(e)

by deleting subsections (13), (14) and (15) and substituting the following: —

“(13) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, an employer may at his discretion pay to an employee an annual wage supplement which is in excess of the amount specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (5) of this section save that the amount paid to the employee shall not exceed the equivalent of three months’ wages of the employee.

(14) Nothing in paragraph (c) of subsection (10), or in paragraph (e) of subsection (12), of this section shall be construed as applying to any payments made by an employer to an employee under a productivity incentive scheme.”; and

(f)

by re-numbering subsection (16) as subsection (15).

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