Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
Regulation 10
Tier for month for general work permit holders
Subregulation 1
For any month beginning on or after 1st July 2011, the Tier within which a general work permit holder of an employer in any particular sector stands under paragraph 15 shall be determined as follows:
the number of spaces within each Tier for the employees of an employer in that sector shall be calculated in accordance with paragraph 12;
each S pass holder (if any) and each work permit holder of the employer in that sector shall be allocated to the spaces in each Tier according to his ordinal position for that month assigned under sub-paragraph (2); and
if an S pass holder or a work permit holder of the employer in that sector has not been assigned an ordinal position under sub-paragraph (2), the Tier within which he stands for that month shall be determined under sub-paragraph (3).
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), an ordinal position for a month shall be assigned to each S pass holder and each work permit holder of the employer in that sector on an ordering day immediately preceding the beginning of the month, in ascending order as follows:
first, to each S pass holder (if any) of his in that sector, according to the date of issue of the S pass of each S pass holder, from the earliest to the latest;
second, to each higher skilled work permit holder (if any) of his in that sector, according to the date of issue of the work permit of each higher skilled work permit holder, from the earliest to the latest; and
third, to each basic skilled work permit holder (if any) of his in that sector, according to the date of issue of the work permit of each basic skilled work permit holder, from the earliest to the latest.
Subregulation 3
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) —
the S pass holder referred to in that sub-paragraph shall be allocated to any space available on the relevant date in Tier 1 and, if there is no such space available in Tier 1, the S pass holder shall be disregarded for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1); and
the work permit holder referred to in that sub-paragraph shall be allocated to any space available on the relevant date in the lowest possible Tier.
Subregulation 4
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), the spaces available in a Tier on the relevant date shall be determined in accordance with paragraph 12, except that TWF in the formulae specified in paragraph 12(2) shall be the total workforce of the employer in that sector on the counting day immediately preceding the relevant date.
Subregulation 5
Sub-paragraph (1)(b) and (c) shall not apply to the classes of foreign employees listed in the Second and Third Schedules.