Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Truck System
63. Payment of salary through bank
Feedback & supportNothing in section 54 or 56 operates so as to render unlawful or invalid any payment of salary by the employer to the workman in any of the following ways:
salary
“salary” means all remuneration including allowances payable to an employee in respect of work done under his or her contract of service, but does not include —(a)the value of any house accommodation, supply of electricity, water, medical attendance, or other amenity, or of any service excluded by general or special order of the Minister published in the Gazette;(b)any contribution paid by the employer on his or her own account to any pension fund or provident fund;(c)any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession;(d)any sum paid to the employee to reimburse him or her for special expenses incurred by him or her in the course of his or her employment;(e)any gratuity payable on discharge or retirement; and(f)any retrenchment benefit payable on retrenchment;
payment into an account at a bank in Singapore, being an account in the name of the workman or an account in the name of the workman jointly with one or more other persons;
payment by cheque made payable to or to the order of the workman.
Where the salary or part thereof has been paid in any of the ways set out in subsection (1), section 57 does not operate to give a right of recovery of so much of the salary as has been so paid.