Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Contracts of Service
18. Change of employer
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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;
If on an employer’s death the employee is taken into the employment of the personal representatives or trustees of the deceased, the employee’s period of employment at the time of the death counts as a period of employment with the employer’s personal representatives or trustees, and the death of the employer does not break the continuity of the period of employment.
employer
“employer” means any person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes —(a)the Government in respect of such categories, classes or descriptions of officers or employees of the Government as are declared by the President to be employees for the purposes of this Act;(b)any statutory authority;(c)the duly authorised agent or manager of the employer; and(d)the person who owns or is carrying on or for the time being responsible for the management of the profession, business, trade or work in which the employee is engaged;
If there is a change in the partners, personal representatives or trustees who employ any person, the employee’s period of employment at the time of the change counts as a period of employment with the partners, personal representatives or trustees after the change, and the change does not break the continuity of the period of employment.