Employment Law

Coverage: This course will focus on the essential principles of Singapore law relating to employment, including the common law rules and key provisions of the Employment Act as well as the Workplace Safety and Health Act, Work Injury Compensation Act and Common Law rules on workplace safety and health. Additional Overview: will be given introducing the framework, core concepts and main principles relating to employment equality under various provisions and statutes like the Retirement and Re-Employment Act and the TAFEP guidelines and the scheme for regulating foreign labour under the Employment of Foreign Workers Act. There will also be a brief overview of the statutes governing industrial labour rights and disputes: the Industrial Relations Act, the Trade Unions Act etc. This is a lot of ground so it should be noted that these will not be all covered at the same depth. Purpose: The intention is that the student having done this course should have an overview of the legal framework and have a firm grasp of the core principles and purposes of the various laws and statutes with an emphasis on the main common law rules and the Employment Act. The students should understand their core rights as employers or employees and know where to look for more particular answers should that be necessary. It is intended that the conceptual understanding of the issues and perspectives on the laws will give the student the foundation to adapt intelligently even with changes of the laws or switches to new systems.