Skills Future Singapore Agency Act 2016 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Transfer of Undertakings to Agency
67. Transferring secondments and SWDA employees to Agency
Feedback & supportOn the transfer date, every transferring SWDA employee —
stops being an employee of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency; and
is each transferred to the service, and becomes an employee, of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by the employee on the eve of the transfer date.
The transfer of a transferring SWDA employee to the Agency —
transferring SWDA employee
“transferring SWDA employee” means an employee of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency who, on the eve of the transfer date, is in any of the following departments of that Agency:(a)the Institute of Adult Learning;(b)the Skills Development Group;(c)the Training Partners Group;(d)the Business Technology Group;(e)the Corporate Group (SkillsFuture);(f)the Integrated Business Services Division;(g)the Shared Services Management Division.
does not interrupt continuity of service;
does not constitute a retrenchment or redundancy; and
does not entitle any employee so transferred to any payment or other benefit merely because he or she stops being employed by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency.
A certificate purporting to be signed by the Minister certifying that an individual named in the certificate was, with effect from the transfer date, employed by virtue of this section by the Agency, is admissible in evidence in any proceedings as evidence of the matters stated in it.
Agency
“Agency” means the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency established by section 3;
Nothing in this section prevents —
any of the terms and conditions of employment of an individual transferred under this section from being altered by or under any law, award or agreement with effect from any time after the transfer date; and
an individual transferred under this section from resigning from the Agency at any time after the transfer date, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his or her employment then applicable.
To avoid doubt, section 18A of the Employment Act 1968 does not apply to the transfer under this Part of any SWDA employee to the Agency.
SWDA
“Singapore Workforce Development Agency” or “SWDA” means the Singapore Workforce Development Agency established by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency Act;
On the transfer date, every public officer whose services are made available (or is seconded) to the Council of Private Education under an agreement or arrangement that —
private education
“private education” has the meaning given by the Private Education Act 2009;
is between the Government and the Council for Private Education; and (b)is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency.