Regulation 1
Citation and commencement
These Regulations are the Platform Workers (Platform Worker Records and Earnings Slips) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 January 2025.
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Platform Workers (Platform Worker Records and Earnings Slips) Regulations 2024 is Singapore Subsidiary Legislation, cited as Subsidiary Legislation PWA-S1009-2024 2024, currently marked in force and first recorded in 2024.
Citation and commencement
These Regulations are the Platform Workers (Platform Worker Records and Earnings Slips) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 January 2025.
Definitions
In these Regulations —“earnings period”, in relation to a platform worker, means the period, determined by a platform operator, in respect of which the earnings of the platform worker from his or her provision of a platform service for the platform operator are payable;“identity card”, for an individual, means an identity card issued to the individual under the National Registration Act 1965;“specified record” means a record made and kept under section 13(1) of the Act.
“earnings period”, in relation to a platform worker, means the period, determined by a platform operator, in respect of which the earnings of the platform worker from his or her provision of a platform service for the platform operator are payable;
“identity card”, for an individual, means an identity card issued to the individual under the National Registration Act 1965;
“specified record” means a record made and kept under section 13(1) of the Act.
Application of Regulations
These Regulations apply to and in relation to every platform worker, and every individual who becomes a platform worker on or after 1 January 2025.
Platform worker records — content
For the purposes of section 13(1) of the Act, the prescribed particulars that must be contained in the specified records made by a platform operator are all the matters specified in the First Schedule.
Every specified record relating to a platform worker of a platform operator must be made, starting from —
1 January 2025; or
the first day on which the platform worker provides a platform service for the platform operator, if that day is after 1 January 2025.
Platform worker records — retention period
For the purposes of section 13(1) of the Act —
the record retention period for a specified record relating to a platform worker of a platform operator is, for each entry made to a platform worker record, a period of 2 years after the entry is made; and
the record retention period for a specified record relating to a former platform worker of a platform operator is a period of 2 years after the date of the last task performed by the former platform worker for the platform operator.
In paragraph (1), “former platform worker” has the meaning given by section 13(1)(b) of the Act.
Earnings slip — time of giving
For the purposes of section 14(1) of the Act, a platform operator must give to a platform worker an earnings slip within the following time:
if the earnings slip is in respect of one task performed by the platform worker for the platform operator — not later than 2 months starting on the date the platform worker performed the task;
if the earnings slip is in respect of 2 or more tasks performed by the platform worker for the platform operator — not later than 2 months starting on the date the platform worker performed the earliest task to which the earnings slip relates.
Earnings slip — content
For the purposes of section 14(3) of the Act, an earnings slip must —
include a statement to the effect that it is a document in respect of the earnings of a platform worker; and
contain all the information specified in the Second Schedule.