Industrial Relations Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8A · Application of Act to Platform Operators, Platform Workers and Platform Work Associations
77A. Application of Part 3 and Parts 5 to 9, etc.
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Part 3 and Parts 5 to 9 apply in relation to a platform operator, platform worker and platform work association as they apply in relation to an employer, an employee and a trade union, with the following modifications:
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;
the sections in the second column of the following table (called the applicable section) apply in lieu of the sections in the first column (called the replaced section), and any reference in any other written law to a replaced section is to be read as a reference to the applicable section:First columnReplaced sectionSecond columnApplicable section(i)35(2) to (11)77B(ii)4277C(iii)5077D(iv)5177E(v)5277F(vi)5477G(vii)8077H(viii)8277I(ix)8377J;
in sections 17(1), (2), (4) and (5), 18(1), 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 31(a), 38, 39, 40(1), 41, 43, 44, 45 and 48, any reference in the first column of the following table is to be read as the corresponding reference in the second column of the table:First columnReferenceSecond columnCorresponding reference(i)an employera platform operator(ii)an employeea platform worker(iii)a trade uniona platform work association(iv)a trade union of employeesa platform work association of platform workers(v)a representative of an employera representative of a platform operator(vi)a representative of a trade uniona representative of a platform work association;
the following provisions do not apply to and in relation to platform operators, platform workers and platform work associations:Sections 16(a), 17(3) and (7), 18(2), 25(6), 31(b), (c) and (d), 33, 34(1)(b) and (c) and (2), 36, 79(2) and 81.
Parts 4 and 4A do not apply to and in relation to platform operators, platform workers and platform work associations.