Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Rest Days, Hours of Work and Other Conditions of Service
45. Payment of retrenchment benefit
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No employee who has been in continuous service with an employer for less than 2 years is entitled to any retrenchment benefit on his or her dismissal on the ground of redundancy or by reason of any reorganisation of the employer’s profession, business, trade or work.
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;