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Singapore LABOUR LAW SURVEY
(as reported on Asia Women Workers Newsletter January 1997)
2. Minimum Wage
No
3. Night Work for Women Workers
- Legally all workers can work on any shift
- For pregnant women workers, so long as they have given their written consent and they are not certified unfit by a doctor, it is legal for the employer to ask them to do night work
4. Overtime Work for Women Workers
Not exceeding 72 hours/month unless permitted by Minister for Labour
5. Menstruation Leave - Wheather need special application
No
6. Maternity Protection:
6.1. Length of leave
8 weeks maternity leave if woman worker has worked with her employer for at least 180 days before confinement and she does not already have 2 or more children. However, The Minister of Labour has power to decide that the second condition need not apply to certain classes of women employees
6.2. Payment during leave
Normal monthly wage
6.3. Who pay for it
?
6.4. Any laws prohibiting employers from dismissing the pregnant women workers
Employer cannot give notice of dismissal during maternity leave. Also if the employer dismisses woman worker within a period of 3 months before her confinement without good reasons, she is still entitled to her maternity leave pay
6.5. Any laws allowing women workers who are more than six months' pregnancy shift to lighter work
No shift to lighter work
6.6 Any other provisions
?
7. Comments on the Overall Implementation of the Labor Laws
Labour laws are generalise. There is no special provisions for women workers
8. Ratification of selected ILO Conventions (45,87, 89, 98, 100, 103, 111, 122, 140, 142, 156, 171, 177)
45, 98
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