Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Contracts of Service
12. Contractual age
Feedback & supportDespite any other written law, a person below 18 years of age is, subject to the provisions of this Act, competent to enter into a contract of service.
contract of service
“contract of service” means any agreement, whether written or oral, express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another as an employee and that other agrees to serve his or her employer as an employee and includes an apprenticeship contract or agreement;
No contract of service as an employee is enforceable against a person below 18 years of age and no damages or indemnity are recoverable from that person in respect of the contract of service unless it is for his or her benefit.
employee
“employee” means a person who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer and includes a workman, and any officer or employee of the Government included in a category, class or description of such officers or employees declared by the President to be employees for the purposes of this Act or any provision thereof, but does not include any of the following:(a)any seafarer;(b)any domestic worker;(c) (d)any person belonging to any other class of persons whom the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare not to be employees for the purposes of this Act;