Industrial Relations Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Awards
53. Recovery of wages or earnings under award
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An employee bound by an award may recover in any court of competent jurisdiction any amount which the employee is entitled to be paid by way of wages or otherwise in accordance with the award.
employee
“employee” means a person who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer and includes an officer or servant of the Government included in a category, class or description of such officers or servants declared by notification in the Gazette by the President of Singapore to be employees for the purposes of this Act, but does not include any person or class of persons whom the Minister may from time to time by notification in the Gazette declare not to be employees for the purposes of this Act;
A platform worker bound by an award may recover in any court of competent jurisdiction any amount which the platform worker is entitled to be paid by way of earnings (within the meaning given by section 2 of the Platform Workers Act 2024) or otherwise in accordance with the award.