Singapore legislation
Regulation 12
Regulation 12
Scale of fees, etc.
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of sections 15 and 33(1) of the Act and subject to paragraph (2), the fees that a licensee may charge or receive from an applicant for employment, whether directly or indirectly, for emplacing the applicant for employment with an employer on or after 1st April 2011 shall not exceed —
where the applicant for employment is a foreign employee, one month’s salary for each year of —
the period of validity of the foreign employee’s work pass; or
the period of the contract of employment,whichever is the shorter, to be pro-rated according to the total relevant period, subject to a maximum of 2 months’ salary of the employee;
where the applicant for employment is not a foreign employee, one month’s salary for each year of the period of the contract of employment, to be pro-rated according to the total period of the contract of employment, subject to a maximum of 2 months’ salary of the employee; or
in any case where sub-paragraph (a) or (b) is inapplicable, 2 months’ salary of the employee.
Subregulation 2
The reference to fees in paragraph (1) shall not include a reference to any fee charged or received by a licensee in respect of costs incurred by or on behalf of an applicant for employment outside Singapore.
Subregulation 3
For the purposes of section 15 of the Act, a licensee may charge and receive any form of fees, remuneration, profit or compensation from any applicant for workers or any employer.
Subregulation 4
The licensee shall, as soon as practicable after receiving any fee, whether directly or indirectly, from an applicant for employment, issue a written receipt for the fee accompanied by an itemised list of components of the fee to the applicant for employment.
Subregulation 5
Every licensee shall exhibit, in a conspicuous place —
in every place of business of the employment agency, including every branch thereof; or
in every premises where the work or activity referred to in section 6(2) of the Act is being performed, as the case may be, a copy of the scale of fees that the licensee charges.