Clause 4

Section 25 of the Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 136, 2004 Ed.) is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(5A) Notwithstanding subsection (5)(a), where there is a transfer of an undertaking referred to in section 18A(1) of the Employment Act (Cap. 91), any collective agreement that was entered into between the transferor and the trade union of the affected employees and in force immediately before the transfer shall, for the purposes of section 18A(8)(b) of the Employment Act, continue in force between the transferee and the trade union of the affected employees for a period of 18 months after the date of the transfer or until the date of its expiry as specified in the collective agreement, whichever is the later.”.