Industrial Relations Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Industrial Arbitration Courts
7. Eligibility for membership of panels
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Subject to subsection (2), a person who is an employee or a platform worker shall not be eligible to be a member of the business panel.
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 person in the service of the Government shall be eligible to be a member of the business panel if he is nominated by the Minister charged with the responsibility for human resource management in the Civil Service.
A person who is —
an employer, a director of a company which is an employer or employed by a trade union of employers or association of employers; or
a platform operator, a director of a company which is a platform operator or employed by a platform work association of platform operators or an association of platform operators,shall not be eligible to be a member of the worker panel.
A person who —
is an undischarged bankrupt;
has a mental disorder and is incapable of managing himself or his affairs;
is not a citizen of Singapore;
is ineligible by reason of section 57 to be nominated for election as an officer of a trade union or platform work association; or
has within the previous 3 years been convicted of an offence under this Act or the Trade Disputes Act 1941,shall not be eligible for appointment to a panel.
The Minister may exempt any person from subsection (1) or (3).