Industrial Relations Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Limited Representation of Executive Employees
30C. Acceptance of invitation to negotiate
Feedback & supportAn employer or a recognised trade union upon whom an invitation to negotiate has been served under section 30B may, within 7 days after service of that invitation, serve on the recognised trade union or employer which served the notice an acceptance of the invitation to negotiate (referred to in this Part as an acceptance to negotiate).
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;