Singapore legislation
Clause 39
Clause 39
Related amendments to Employment Act
(1)
Section 2(1) of the Employment Act is amended —
by inserting, immediately after the word “child” in the definition of “confinement”, the words “(including a stillborn child)”; and
by inserting, immediately after the definition of “seafarer”, the following definition: “ “stillborn child” means any child that has issued forth from its mother after the 28th week of pregnancy and that did not at any time after being completely expelled from its mother breathe or show any other signs of life;”.
(2)
Section 2(1) of the Employment Act, as amended by section 39(1)(b), is amended by deleting the definition of “stillborn child” and substituting the following definition: “ “stillborn child” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 2021;”.
(3)
Section 76 of the Employment Act is amended —
by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection: “(5A) Where the employment of a female employee is terminated because she resigns before she has exercised, wholly or partly, her entitlement to absent herself from work during a period mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c), she forfeits the following upon termination of her employment: (a)that entitlement (or the balance of that entitlement) to absent herself from work; (b)the entitlement under this section (if any) to receive payment from her employer at her gross rate of pay in respect of the forfeited period of absence from work under paragraph (a).”; and
by deleting the words “(whether by resignation or dismissal, upon the completion of her contract of service, or for any other reason)” in subsection (6) and substituting the words “(whether by dismissal, upon the completion of her contract of service, or for any reason other than by resignation)”.