(1) This Act is the Platform Workers Act 2024 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.(2) A notification made under this section may specify that different provisions of the Fourth to Ten
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Platform Workers Act 2024
An Act to provide for the rights and obligations of platform operators and platform workers, to register and recognise platform work associations and provide for matters connected therewith, to amend certain Acts to provide for the rights, obligations, protections and representation of platform workers and platform operators under those Acts, and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other Acts.
Sections (121)
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In this Act —“authorised officer” means an individual who is appointed under section 80(1)(a); “civil contravention” means a contravention that is declared to be a civil contravention under section 76; “Commissioner” means the Commissioner
(1) In this Act, “platform service” means a service specified in the First Schedule that is provided in Singapore via a digital platform or other platform by a platform operator exercising management control in respect of the provision of t
(1) In this Act, “platform operator” means a person who —(a) provides a platform service in Singapore by —(i) entering into a contract or other agreement with one or more service users to provide that platform service to those service users
(1) In this Act, “platform worker” means an individual who —(a) has an agreement (whether written or oral and whether express or implied) with a platform operator to provide a platform service in Singapore to service users for the platform
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person (A) exercises management control in respect of the provision of a platform service by an individual (B) for A if all of the following are satisfied:(a) A uses, for any specified purpose, data relat
(1) Subject to any other written law for the time being in force, every term of an agreement between a platform operator and any platform worker which purports to restrict or exclude, in any way, the right of any platform worker to do any o
(1) A person that satisfies the criteria to be a platform operator under section 4 must notify the Commissioner of that fact —(a) within the prescribed time; and (b) in the form and manner that the Commissioner requires. (2) A notification
A platform operator that ceases to be a platform operator within the meaning of section 4 must notify the Commissioner of that fact within the prescribed time.
(1) The Commissioner may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is a platform operator, do either or both of the following:(a) by written notice, require the person to provide any report, document or information in respect of a
To avoid doubt, where a person is a platform operator within the meaning of section 4, the person’s notification or failure to notify under section 8 or 9 does not affect the person’s obligation to comply with any requirement applicable to
The Commissioner may publish a list of platform operators known to the Commissioner in any manner that the Commissioner considers appropriate.
(1) A platform operator must make, and keep for the period prescribed (called in this section the record retention period), specified records containing the prescribed particulars for —(a) every platform worker who provides a platform servi
(1) A platform operator must give to every platform worker, within the prescribed time, an earnings slip for all earnings paid by the platform operator in respect of each task performed by the platform worker in relation to the platform wor
(1) This section applies where a platform operator that is a company enters judicial management under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.(2) Where platform workers of the platform operator —(a) are creditors, by reason t
(1) This section applies in relation to a winding up of a platform operator that is a company under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.(2) The following must be paid in priority over all unsecured debts of the platform o
(1) This section applies in relation to a platform operator who is a debtor within the meaning given by section 288(1) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.(2) The following must be paid under a debt repayment plan appl
(1) This section applies in relation to the bankruptcy of a platform operator under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.(2) In the distribution of the property of the platform operator, the following have priority over al
In this Part —“delegate”, in relation to a platform work association, means a person who is elected or appointed in accordance with the rules of the platform work association to attend and vote at a meeting of the platform work association
(1) The Minister may appoint, from public officers —(a) a Registrar of Platform Work Associations; and (b) one or more Assistant Registrars of Platform Work Associations. (2) The Registrar is responsible for the administration of this Part,
(1) The Registrar must keep and maintain a register of platform work associations which must contain the prescribed particulars of each registered platform work association.(2) The Register may be kept, in whole or in part, in an electronic
(1) Every platform work association must apply to be registered under this Part within a period of one month starting from the date on which it is established.(2) The Registrar may, from time to time, grant an extension of the period mentio
(1) Every application for registration as a registered platform work association must be —(a) made to the Registrar in the prescribed form; and (b) signed by at least 7 members of the platform work association, at least one of whom must be
(1) After consideration of an application for registration as a registered platform work association, the Registrar may —(a) subject to section 25, register the applicant as a registered platform work association in the prescribed manner if
(1) If the name under which a platform work association is proposed to be registered —(a) is identical with the name by which any other platform work association has been registered; or (b) in the Registrar’s opinion, so nearly resembles th
(1) The Registrar may cancel the registration of a registered platform work association in any of the following cases:(a) at the request of the registered platform work association upon its dissolution to be verified in the manner required
(1) Where the Registrar has given written notice to a registered platform work association under section 26(2), the Minister may, if he or she is satisfied that it is likely that the funds of the registered platform work association may be
(1) This section applies if —(a) a platform work association does not apply for registration within the time specified in section 22; (b) an application for registration as a platform work association is refused under section 24(1)(b); or (
(1) Upon the dissolution of a platform work association under section 28(2) —(a) the property of the platform work association immediately vests in the Official Receiver; and (b) the Official Receiver must proceed to wind up the affairs of
A platform work association does not enjoy any of the rights, immunities or privileges of a registered platform work association until it is registered.
No suit or other legal proceedings shall be maintainable in any civil court against any registered platform work association, or any officer or member of a registered platform work association, in respect of any act done in contemplation or
(1) A suit against a registered platform work association, or any officer or member of a registered platform work association on behalf of himself or herself and all other members of a platform work association, in respect of any tortious a
(1) Every registered platform work association is liable on any contract entered into by it or by an agent acting on its behalf.(2) Despite subsection (1), a platform work association is not liable on any contract which is void or unenforce
The objects of a registered platform work association are not, by reason only that they are in restraint of trade, deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of that platform work association liable to criminal prosecution for conspir
(1) A registered platform work association may sue and be sued and be prosecuted under its registered name.(2) An unregistered platform work association may be sued and prosecuted under the name by which it has been operating or is generall
(1) A registered platform work association must not commence, promote, organise or finance any strike or any form of industrial action affecting the whole or any section of its members without obtaining the consent, by secret ballot, of the
(1) A person above 18 years of age may be a member of a registered platform work association.(2) A member of a registered platform work association who is above 18 years of age, but under 21 years of age, must not be a member of the executi
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person who is a public officer, or an officer or employee of any public authority, must not join or be a member of any platform work association or be accepted as a member by any platform work association.(2
(1) A person must not act as an officer of a platform work association or any branch of a platform work association, and is disqualified for election as such officer, if the person —(a) is an undischarged bankrupt; or (b) has been convicted
(1) Despite any provision in any rules or resolution of any platform work association —(a) the officers of a platform work association and any other persons duly appointed by the platform work association to represent its members in negotia
(1) A registered platform work association may, subject to subsections (2) and (4) and the rules of the platform work association, employ and pay such persons as may be necessary for the purposes of the platform work association.(2) A perso
Without limiting section 94, the Minister may, by order in the Gazette —(a) declare that section 39 or 41 does not apply to any registered platform work association or class of registered platform work associations specified in the order; o
A registered platform work association must not change its name except with the requisite consent of its members.
(1) Any 2 or more registered platform work associations may become amalgamated as one platform work association if each of the platform work associations has the requisite consent of its members to the amalgamation.(2) The amalgamation may
(1) Written notice must be given to the Registrar of every change of name and every amalgamation, signed —(a) in the case of a change of name, by the secretary and 7 members of the registered platform work association changing its name; or
(1) A change in the name of a registered platform work association does not affect any rights or obligations of the platform work association or render defective any legal proceeding by or against the platform work association, and any lega
(1) Every registered platform work association must have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed.(2) Every platform work association must notify the Registrar of the location of its registered office and
(1) The rules of every registered platform work association must provide for all matters specified in the Third Schedule and must not be so altered or amended as to cease to contain provision in respect of all such matters.(2) A copy of the
(1) The rules of a registered platform work association relating to the taking of decisions by secret ballot must ensure that —(a) every member or delegate (as the case may be) has an equal right, and a reasonable opportunity to record his
(1) A registered platform work association must, prominently and in a place that it may be easily read, exhibit —(a) at its registered office a notice showing the names and titles of the officers for the time being of the platform work asso
When a person becomes or ceases to be an employee of a registered platform work association or a branch of a registered platform work association, the platform work association must notify the Registrar within 7 days after the appointment o
(1) When a registered platform work association is dissolved, notice of the dissolution signed by the secretary and 7 members of the platform work association must be sent to the Registrar within 14 days after the dissolution.(2) The Regist
(1) The rules of a registered platform work association must provide for the appointment or election of trustees and for the filling of vacancies in the office of trustees so that, as far as may be, there are always at least 3 trustees of t
All property, movable or immovable, of a registered platform work association must be vested in its trustees for the use and benefit of the platform work association and its members, and are under the control of the trustees.
Upon any change in the office of any trustee, the Supreme Court may, upon an originating application without notice made to it in that behalf, make an order vesting the property of a registered platform work association in the trustees for
(1) Subject to subsection (2) and to any provision in its rules, a registered platform work association may —(a) purchase or take a lease of, for the purposes of the platform work association and in the names of its trustees, any land or bu
(1) The funds of a registered platform work association may, subject to the rules of the platform work association and the provisions of this Act, be expended only for the following objects:(a) the payment of salaries, allowances and expens
The funds of a registered platform work association must not be applied either directly or indirectly in payment of the whole or part of any fine or penalty imposed upon any person by sentence or order of a court of justice.
(1) The funds of a registered platform work association must not be applied either directly or indirectly in payment of contributions to a political party or for a political purpose.(2) The funds of a registered platform work association mu
An injunction restraining any unauthorised or unlawful expenditure of the funds of a registered platform work association may be granted on the application of any 5 or more persons having sufficient interest in the relief sought, the Regist
(1) Every treasurer of a registered platform work association and every other officer of a registered platform work association who is responsible for the accounts of the platform work association or the collection, disbursement, custody or
(1) Without affecting any other provision of this Act, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Part, the Registrar may by written notice direct any officer or employee of a platform work association to produce for the Registr
(1) The secretary of every registered platform work association must provide annually to the Registrar on or before the prescribed date in each year a general statement, audited in the prescribed manner, of all receipts and expenditure duri
The account books of a registered platform work association and a list of its members must be open to inspection by any officer or member of the platform work association at the times provided for in the rules of the platform work associati
(1) Where, on complaint made by a member of a registered platform work association, it is shown to the satisfaction of a District Court or Magistrate’s Court that any officer or member of the registered platform work association —(a) has in
Any person who, with intent to deceive —(a) gives to any member of a registered platform work association, or any person intending or applying to become a member of that platform work association, any document purporting to be a copy of the
If default is made on the part of any registered platform work association in doing any act, giving any notice or sending any statement, return or other document as required by this Part —(a) every officer or other person bound by the rules
(1) Every person who, and every platform work association which, contravenes any provision of this Part for which no penalty is expressly provided shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,00
A prosecution under this Part must not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Public Prosecutor.
This Part does not affect any of the following:(a) any agreement between partners as to their own business; (b) any agreement between an employer and those employed by that person as to such employment; (c) any platform work agreement as to
The Societies Act 1966 does not apply to a platform work association.
Subject to the requirements of any other written law, every originating claim or other legal process may be served on a platform work association by —(a) serving it on the president, secretary, treasurer or other officer of the platform wor
The Registrar must notify in the Gazette the fact that —(a) any platform work association has been registered; (b) the registration of any platform work association has been cancelled; (c) any change of name or amalgamation affecting any re
(1) A person who is aggrieved by —(a) the Registrar’s refusal to register a platform work association under section 24(1)(b); (b) the Registrar’s order to cancel the registration of a registered platform work association under section 26; (
(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of carrying out or giving effect to this Part.(2) In particular, the Minister may make regulations for any of the following:(a) the registers and other records to be kept for the purpose
The following contraventions are declared to be civil contraventions for the purposes of this Act:(a) a failure of a person that satisfies the criteria to be a platform operator under section 4 to notify the Commissioner of that fact in acc
(1) An authorised officer may issue a contravention notice —(a) to a person mentioned in section 76(a) requiring that person to pay an administrative penalty of the prescribed amount for an alleged failure by the person to notify the Commis
(1) Any person or platform operator that is issued a contravention notice by an authorised officer under section 77(1) (called in this section the initial authorised officer) may —(a) within the prescribed period and in accordance with the
(1) In lieu of or in addition to giving a platform operator a contravention notice under section 77(1)(c), an authorised officer may —(a) issue any directions to the platform operator that the authorised officer thinks appropriate to bring
(1) The Commissioner may appoint —(a) any public officer as an authorised officer; or (b) any other individual as an authorised person, to assist the Commissioner in the administration of this Act. (2) The Commissioner may delegate the exer
(1) For the purposes of the execution of this Act, the Commissioner and any authorised officer or authorised person has the following powers:(a) to enter, inspect and examine at any time any premises; (b) to inspect or examine any thing or
On entering any premises occupied by a platform operator under section 81(1)(a), the Commissioner, authorised officer or authorised person (as the case may be) must notify the platform operator or the platform operator’s representative of h
(1) Any document or thing that the Commissioner or an authorised officer or authorised person takes possession of under this Part must —(a) where the document or thing is produced in any criminal trial, be dealt with in accordance with sect
(1) A person who —(a) wilfully obstructs or delays the Commissioner or an authorised officer or authorised person in the exercise of his or her powers under this Part; (b) wilfully withholds any information that the person is required to gi
(1) If a person exercising any function under this Act obtains protected information about the affairs of another person, the firstmentioned person must not disclose that protected information to any other person unless the disclosure —(a)
No liability shall lie personally against any of the following persons who, acting in good faith and with reasonable care, does or omits to do anything in the execution or purported execution of this Act:(a) the Commissioner; (b) any author
A person who abets the commission of an offence under this Act shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with the punishment provided for that offence.
(1) Where, in a proceeding for an offence under this Act, it is necessary to prove the state of mind of a corporation in relation to a particular conduct, evidence that —(a) an officer, employee or agent of the corporation engaged in that c
(1) Where, in a proceeding for an offence under this Act, it is necessary to prove the state of mind of an unincorporated association or a partnership in relation to a particular conduct, evidence that —(a) an employee or agent of the uninc
(1) The Commissioner may compound any offence under this Act (except Part 3) that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the
Despite the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 —(a) a District Court has jurisdiction to try any offence under this Act (except Part 3) and has power to impose the full punishment for any such offence; and (b) a District Court or a Magistrate’s C
(1) A document that is permitted or required by this Act to be served on a person may be served as described in this section.(2) This section does not apply to documents to be served in proceedings in court. (3) A document permitted or requ
This Act does not affect any requirement, duty or obligation imposed on a person who is a platform operator or platform worker under any other written law or any rule of law.
The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, exempt any person or class of persons from all or any of the provisions of this Act, either generally or in a particular case and subject to any conditions that the Minister may impose.
(1) The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, amend, add to or vary the First, Second or Third Schedule.(2) The Minister may, in an order made under subsection (1), make provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enact
(1) The Minister may make regulations necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.(2) In particular, the Minister may make regulations for all or any of the following matters:(a) the records that m
The Central Provident Fund Act 1953 is amended in the manner set out in the Fourth Schedule.
The Income Tax Act 1947 is amended in the manner set out in the Fifth Schedule.
The Industrial Relations Act 1960 is amended in the manner set out in the Sixth Schedule.
The Trade Disputes Act 1941 is amended in the manner set out in the Seventh Schedule.
The Trade Unions Act 1940 is amended in the manner set out in the Eighth Schedule.
The Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 is amended in the manner set out in the Ninth Schedule.
The Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 is amended in the manner set out in the Tenth Schedule.
In the Business Names Registration Act 2014, in section 4(1), after paragraph (j), insert —“(ja) any platform work association registered under the Platform Workers Act 2024;”.
In the Child Development Co-Savings Act 2001 —(a) in section 2(1), after the definition of “personal representative”, insert —“ “platform operator” has the meaning given by section 4 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;”; (b) in section 2, aft
In the Companies Act 1967, in section 4(1), in the definition of “corporation” —(a) in paragraph (d), delete “or” at the end; and (b) after paragraph (d), insert —“(da) any platform work association registered under the Platform Workers Act
In the Co-operative Societies Act 1979 —(a) in section 2(1), in the definition of “institutional member”, replace “or a trade union” with “, a trade union or a platform work association”; (b) in section 2(1), after the definition of “perman
In the Enlistment Act 1970, in section 24 —(a) in subsection (1), replace paragraphs (f) and (g) with —“(f) a platform worker providing a platform service for a platform operator; (g) gainfully employed by one or more employers; (h) self-em
In the Extradition Act 1968, in the First Schedule, in Part 2, replace item 3 with —“3. Central Provident Fund Act 1953 7(3) Failure of an employer to pay any amount which the employer had recovered from an employee’s monthly wages in accor
In the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021 —(a) in section 3(1), in the definition of “relevant entity”, in paragraph (c), replace sub‑paragraphs (ii) and (iii) with —“(ii) the Societies Act 1966; (iii) the Trade Unions Act 1940
In the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005 —(a) in section 2(1), in the definition of “corporation”, replace paragraphs (d) and (e) with —“(d) any co-operative society; (e) any registered trade union; or (f) any registered platform work
In the Limited Partnerships Act 2008, in section 2(1), in the definition of “corporation”, replace paragraphs (d) and (e) with —“(d) any co-operative society; (e) any registered trade union; or (f) any registered platform work association;”
In the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act 1990, in section 2, in the definition of “entity”, after paragraph (h), insert —“(i) a platform work association;”.
In the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) Act 1960, in section 4 —(a) in subsection (4), replace paragraph (a) with —“(a) liability in respect of —(i) the death of or bodily injury sustained by a person (A) who is in the em
In the Mutual Benefit Organisations Act 1960, in section 48(1), replace “or the Trade Unions Act 1940” with “, the Trade Unions Act 1940 or the Platform Workers Act 2024”.
In the Point-to-Point Passenger Transport Industry Act 2019, in section 4(1), replace the definition of “participating driver agreement” with —“ “participating driver agreement”, in relation to a provider of a ride-hail service, means an ag
In the Public Entertainments Act 1958, in the First Schedule, in paragraph 3(d), after “registered trade unions,”, insert “registered platform work associations,”.
In the Requisition of Resources Act 1985, in section 27 —(a) in subsection (2)(b), replace “had not been” with “not been”; (b) in subsection (2), after paragraph (b), insert —“(ba) is a platform worker — he or she must be paid such remunera
In the Road Traffic Act 1961, in section 110B, replace the definitions of “participating bookable driver” and “participating driver agreement” with —“ “participating bookable driver”, for a designated exempt ride-hail service operator, mean
In the Singapore Labour Foundation Act 1977, in section 4 —(a) in paragraphs (a), (b) and (d), replace “trade union movement” with “labour movement”; (b) in paragraph (c)(i) and (ii), after “trade unions”, insert “and platform work associat
In the Societies Act 1966, in section 2, in the definition of “society”, after paragraph (d), insert —“(da) any platform work association registered or required to be registered under the Platform Workers Act 2024;”.
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