Industrial Relations Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Limited Representation of Executive Employees
30B. Invitation to negotiate
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A recognised trade union representing an executive employee under section 30A may serve on an employer or an employer may serve on a recognised trade union, as the case may be, a notice in the prescribed form (referred to in this Part as an invitation to negotiate) —
recognised trade union
“recognised trade union” means a trade union the majority of whose membership consists of non‑executive employees and which has been accorded recognition by an employer under section 17 in respect of any non‑executive employees.(2) For the purposes of this Part, the Minister charged with the responsibility for human resource management in the Civil Service shall be deemed to be the employer of employees of the Government. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,
setting out proposals for resolving any dispute relating to the issue of retrenchment benefit payable to the executive employee upon the retrenchment of the executive employee or a breach of contract of employment by the executive employee or his employer or any re‑employment dispute as defined in section 8A(4) of the Retirement and Re‑employment Act 1993; and
executive employee
“executive employee”, in relation to an employer, means an employee who is employed in a managerial or an executive position by the employer;
inviting the employer or trade union, as the case may be, to negotiate with it in relation to those matters with a view to arriving at a settlement.
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 servants of the Government as from time to time are declared by the President of Singapore to be employees for the purposes of this Act;(b)a statutory authority;(c)a duly authorised agent or manager of an employer;(d)a person who owns, or is carrying on, or is for the time being responsible for the management or control of a profession, business, trade or work in which an employee is engaged;(e)for the purposes of Parts 5, 6 and 7, the transferor of an undertaking whose employment of employees is transferred by virtue of section 18A of the Employment Act 1968;