Singapore legislation

Regulation 5

of Industrial Relations (Recognition of a Platform Work Association of Platform Workers) Regulations 2024

Regulation 5

Secret ballot

Subregulation 1

Subject to paragraph (2), all persons who are platform workers providing a platform service for a platform operator on the date on which a claim for recognition is served are entitled to vote in a secret ballot.

Subregulation 2

The following persons are not entitled to vote in a secret ballot:

(a)

partners in a partnership business;

(b)

persons who entered into platform work agreements with the platform operator after the date on which a claim for recognition has been served;

(c)

persons who entered into platform work agreements with the platform operator within the period of 3 months immediately preceding the date on which the claim for recognition is served;

(d)

platform workers who have not performed any task in relation to their provision of any platform service for the platform operator in the 3 months immediately preceding the date on which the claim for recognition is served.

Subregulation 3

Any dispute between a platform operator and a platform work association or platform work associations of platform workers as to whether any platform worker is entitled to vote in a secret ballot, in accordance with paragraph (1), must be referred to the Commissioner whose decision is final.