Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Maternity Protection and Benefits and Childcare Leave for Parent
79. Payment of benefit on death of female employee before confinement
Feedback & supportIf a female employee, after giving notice to her employer under section 80(1), abstains from work in expectation of her confinement and dies from any cause before her confinement, the employer must pay to the person nominated by her under section 80(4) or, if there is no such person, to her personal representative a sum of money at the rate prescribed under section 76 from the date immediately following the last day on which she worked to the day immediately preceding the day of her death and except in the circumstances mentioned in this subsection no employer is liable to pay any sum in respect of a period exceeding 30 days.
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 a female employee dies from any cause on or after the day of her confinement and before any payment to which she is entitled has been paid to her, the employer must pay to the person nominated by her under section 80(4) or, if there is no such person, to her personal representative any sum of money to which she was on the date of her death entitled in respect of the period up to the day of confinement and in respect of the period after confinement up to the day immediately preceding the day of her death.