Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Maternity Protection and Benefits and Childcare Leave for Parent
80. Notice of confinement
Feedback & supportA female employee must, at least one week before absenting herself from work in accordance with section 76, give notice to her employer specifying the date on which she intends to commence absenting herself from 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;
A female employee who has been confined must, as soon as practicable, inform her employer of the date on which she was confined.
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;
Any female employee who omits to give notice as required under subsection (1) or fails to inform her employer as required under subsection (2) is entitled to only half the amount of any payment to which she is entitled to under this Part unless she was prevented by any sufficient cause from giving the notice.
A female employee may at any time in writing nominate some other person to whom any payment to which she is entitled under this Part may be paid on her behalf; and any such payment made to the person so nominated is deemed, for the purpose of this Act, to be payment to the female employee who nominated the person.