Employment (Part-Time Employees) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Oct 2004

No. S 605

Employment Act
(Chapter 91)

Employment (Part-Time Employees) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 66B of the Employment Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Employment (Part-Time Employees) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2004.

New regulation 8A

2. The Employment (Part-Time Employees) Regulations (Rg 8) are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 8, the following regulation:

“Childcare leave

8A.—(1) A part-time employee shall be entitled to paid childcare leave in proportion to the entitlement of a similar full-time employee provided by section 87A of the Act, which shall be calculated according to the following formula:

Number of hours a week which the part-time employee is required to work
x 52

________________

Number of hours a week which a similar full-time employee is required to work
x 52

2
(being the number of days of paid childcare leave which a similar full-time employee is entitled to)

Number of hours a day which a similar full-time employee is required to work

(2) The employer shall pay the part-time employee for the period of paid childcare leave taken at his hourly gross rate of pay.

(3) Section 87A(5) of the Act shall not apply to a part-time employee.

Illustration

Where a part-time employee is required to work 4 hours a day for 5 days a week, and a similar full-time employee is required to work 8 hours a day and 44 hours a week, the entitlement of the part-time employee to paid childcare leave calculated in accordance with regulation 8A(1) shall be —

If the hourly gross rate of pay of the part-time employee is $5 and he takes 4 hours of paid childcare leave, in accordance with regulation 8A(2), for the period of that leave, he will be paid a sum of —

Made this 24th day of September 2004.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[QWPD 2:2 /C; AG/LEG/SL/91/2002/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 139(3) of the Employment Act).

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