Work-from-home arrangements
13D.—(1)  Every permitted enterprise must provide the tools, equipment, materials and other facilities necessary for every relevant permitted enterprise worker of the permitted enterprise to perform, in the worker’s place of residence in Singapore when not on leave, his or her work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by the permitted enterprise as his or her employer.
(2)  A permitted enterprise must not cause or permit, at any time, any of the relevant permitted enterprise workers of the permitted enterprise to perform, at his or her workplace, work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by the permitted enterprise.
[S 238/2021 wef 05/04/2021]
[S 309/2021 wef 08/05/2021]
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
[S 621/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
[S 715/2021 wef 27/09/2021]
(3)  For the purposes of paragraph (2), where any permitted enterprise is a sole proprietor or a partnership of individuals, the individual who is the sole proprietor or every partner (as the case may be) must be counted as if he or she is a permitted enterprise worker.
[S 238/2021 wef 05/04/2021]
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
(4)  In this regulation —
[Deleted by S 238/2021 wef 05/04/2021]
[Deleted by S 238/2021 wef 05/04/2021]
[Deleted by S 238/2021 wef 05/04/2021]
“permitted enterprise worker”, in relation to a permitted enterprise, means an employee of the permitted enterprise designated by his or her employer as a permitted enterprise worker;
“relevant permitted enterprise worker” means a permitted enterprise worker other than a permitted enterprise worker who is required to perform work the nature of which necessarily requires or involves the permitted enterprise worker —
(a)to drive, pilot or travel in any motor vehicle, vessel or other mode of conveyance; or
(b)to be physically present at his or her workplace —
(i)to operate or use machinery, equipment, plant, materials or other matter, the provision of which under paragraph (1) is impracticable but is required in order to perform that work;
(ii)to retrieve, access or use documents, information, material or other matter, the provision of which under paragraph (1) is impracticable but is required in order to perform that work; or
(iii)to perform the work, such as patrolling or guarding another person’s property, crowd control or administering a beauty therapy procedure;
[Deleted by S 238/2021 wef 05/04/2021]
“workplace”, for a permitted enterprise worker, means a place in Singapore that is —
(a)outside of the permitted enterprise worker’s place of residence; and
(b)where the permitted enterprise worker is required to be at work for his or her employer.
[S 816/2020 wef 28/09/2020]