Singapore legislation

Section 6

of Employment Claims Act 2016

Section 6

Claim referral certificate

(1)

This section applies where —

(a)

a claimant submits to the Commissioner a mediation request; and

(b)

the Commissioner refers any specified employment dispute listed in that request to an approved mediator.

(2)

The approved mediator to whom is referred any specified employment dispute in a mediation request must issue to the claimant a claim referral certificate in respect of every unresolved specified employment dispute listed in the mediation request, if —

(a)

the respondent is given reasonable notice of, but does not attend, the mediation for that dispute;

(b)

no settlement is reached at the end of the mediation in relation to one or more of the specified employment disputes listed in the mediation request; or

(c)

the approved mediator is satisfied that there is no reasonable prospect of settling through mediation the specified employment dispute.

(3)

Despite subsection (2), if a claimant submits a mediation request but, without reasonable excuse, fails to attend any mediation session to which that request relates, the approved mediator may —

(a)

discontinue the mediation; and

(b)

refuse to issue to the claimant a claim referral certificate in respect of all or any of the unresolved specified employment disputes listed in that request.

(4)

In this section, a specified employment dispute listed in a mediation request is unresolved if the dispute —

(a)

is not settled; and

(b)

is not withdrawn from the list of specified employment disputes in the mediation request.

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