Singapore legislation
Clause 7
Clause 7
New section 20A
The Employment Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 20, the following section:“Computation of salary for incomplete month’s work20A.—
If a monthly-rated employee has not completed a whole month of service because —
he commenced employment after the first day of the month;
his employment was terminated before the end of the month;
he took leave of absence without pay for one or more days of the month; or
he took leave of absence to perform his national service under the Enlistment Act [Cap. 93],the salary due to him for that month shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula:(2) In calculating the number of days actually worked by an employee in a month under subsection (1), any day on which an employee is required to work for 5 hours or less under his contract of service shall be regarded as half a day.”.