Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Maternity Protection and Benefits and Childcare Leave for Parent
84A. Right to benefit unaffected by notice of dismissal given on ground of redundancy or by reason of reorganisation of employer’s profession, business, trade or work
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Without affecting sections 81 and 84, a notice of dismissal given to a female employee by her employer on the ground of redundancy or by reason of any reorganisation of her 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;
if given before 1 May 2013, is given —
within a period of 3 months preceding the estimated delivery date for her confinement (as certified by a medical practitioner); or
within a period of 3 months preceding the date of her confinement;
if given on or after 1 May 2013, is given at any time of her pregnancy (as certified by a medical practitioner before the notice of dismissal is given), where the female employee has served the employer for a period of 3 months or more immediately preceding the day the notice is given; or
if given on or after 1 May 2013 but before 1 August 2013 and where the female employee has served the employer for a period of less than 3 months, is given —
within a period of 3 months preceding the estimated delivery date for her confinement (as certified by a medical practitioner); or
within a period of 3 months preceding the date of her confinement,does not have the effect of depriving her of any payment to which, but for that notice, she would have been entitled or would, on or before the date of her confinement, have become entitled to under this Part.
In any case where there are 2 or more estimated delivery dates (each certified by a medical practitioner) for the confinement of a female employee, the estimated delivery date that is relevant for the purposes of subsection (1) is the estimated delivery date —
medical practitioner
“medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Registration Act 1997, and includes a dentist registered under the Dental Registration Act 1999;
which is certified by a medical practitioner before the notice of dismissal is given by her employer; and
the date of such certification of which is closest to the date the notice of dismissal is given.
The payment referred to in subsection (1) is in addition to any retrenchment benefit or other payment to which the female employee is entitled under the terms of her contract of service or under any other written law.
contract of service
“contract of service” means any agreement, whether written or oral, express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another as an employee and that other agrees to serve his or her employer as an employee and includes an apprenticeship contract or agreement;