Singapore legislation
Section 24
Section 24
Transfer of employees
(1)
On the transfer date, such persons or categories of persons as the Minister may determine and employed by the Authority immediately before that date in the transferred Division are transferred to the service of the Commission on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer.
(2)
If any question arises as to whether any person has been transferred to the service of the Commission under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister is conclusive evidence that the person was or was not so transferred.
(3)
Until such time as terms and conditions of service are drawn up by the Commission, the scheme and terms and conditions of service in the Authority continue to apply to a transferred employee as if he or she were still in the service of the Authority.
(4)
The terms and conditions of service to be drawn up by the Commission for the transferred employees must —
take into account the salaries and terms and conditions of service (including any accrued rights to leave) enjoyed by them while in the employment of the Authority; and
in the case of any term or condition relating to the length of service with the Commission, provide for the recognition of service with the Authority by the transferred employees as service by them with the Commission.
(5)
All deeds, schemes, bonds, agreements, instruments and arrangements subsisting immediately before the transfer date to which the Authority is a party and relating to a transferred employee have effect and are enforceable by or against the Commission as from that date as if —
the Commission had been a party to the deeds, schemes, bonds, agreements, instruments and arrangements instead of the Authority; and
for any reference to the Authority in the deeds, schemes, bonds, agreements, instruments and arrangements there were substituted in respect of anything to be done on or after the transfer date a reference to the Commission.
(6)
Where, on the transfer date —
any disciplinary proceedings were pending against any transferred employee, the proceedings must be carried on and completed by the Commission; and
any matter concerning any transferred employee was in the course of being heard or investigated or had been heard or investigated by a committee of the Authority acting under due authority but no order, ruling or direction had been made on the matter, the committee must complete the hearing or investigation and must make such order, ruling or direction as it could have made under the authority vested in it before that date,and any order, ruling or direction made by a committee pursuant to paragraph (b) must be treated as an order, a ruling or a direction of the Commission and has the same force and effect as if it had been made by the Commission pursuant to the authority vested in the Commission under this Act.
(7)
The Commission may reprimand, reduce in rank, retire, dismiss or punish in any other manner any transferred employee for any misconduct or neglect of duty committed before the transfer date which would have rendered him or her liable to be reprimanded, reduced in rank, retired, dismissed or punished in some other manner if he or she had continued to be in the employment of the Authority and if this section had not been enacted.
(8)
Any proceedings or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the transfer date by or against the Authority, or any person acting on its behalf, relating to any transferred employee may be continued and enforced by or against the Commission.
(9)
To avoid doubt, section 18A of the Employment Act 1968 does not apply to the transfer under this section of any employee of the Authority to the Commission.
(10)
Nothing in subsection (1) prevents the terms and conditions of service of any transferred employee from being varied on or after the transfer date; and “vary”, in relation to the terms and conditions of service, includes omitting any of the terms and conditions, or substituting new terms and conditions for any of those terms and conditions.