Singapore legislation
Clause 10
Clause 10
Amendment of section 84
Section 84 of the Employment Act is amended by deleting subsections (2) to (7) and substituting the following subsections:“(2) Subject to section 3 of the Employment Claims Act 2016, where a female employee in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) considers that a notice of dismissal given to her was not given for sufficient cause, the female employee may lodge a claim, under section 13 of that Act, for one of the following remedies:
reinstatement in her former employment;
compensation.(3) If a Tribunal hearing the claim is satisfied that the female employee has been dismissed without sufficient cause, the Tribunal may, despite any rule of law or agreement to the contrary —
in a claim for reinstatement of the employee in her former employment, direct the employer —
to reinstate the employee in her former employment; and
to pay the employee an amount equivalent to the wages that the employee would have earned, if she had not been dismissed by the employer; or
in a claim for compensation, direct the employer to pay, as compensation to the employee, an amount of wages determined by the Tribunal to be just and equitable having regard to all the circumstances of the case.”.