Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Truck System
57. Recovery of salary not paid in legal tender
Feedback & supportEvery workman is entitled to recover in any court or before the Commissioner, acting under section 115, so much of his or her salary exclusive of sums lawfully deducted in accordance with the provisions of this Act as has not been actually paid to him or her in legal tender.
workman
“workman” means —(a)any person, skilled or unskilled, who has entered into a contract of service with an employer pursuant to which he or she is engaged in manual labour, including any artisan or apprentice, but excluding any seafarer or domestic worker;(b)any person, other than clerical staff, employed in the operation or maintenance of mechanically‑propelled vehicles used for the transport of passengers for hire or for commercial purposes;(c)any person employed partly for manual labour and partly for the purpose of supervising in person any workman in and throughout the performance of his or her work:Provided that when any person is employed by any one employer partly as a workman and partly in some other capacity or capacities, that person is deemed to be a workman unless it can be established that the time during which that workman has been required to work as a workman in any one salary period as defined in Part 3 has on no occasion amounted to or exceeded one‑half of the total time during which that person has been required to work in such salary period;(d)any person specified in the First Schedule; or(e)any person whom the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a workman for the purposes of this Act.