PART V
TRUCK
SYSTEM
Agreements to pay salary otherwise
than in legal tender illegal.
54.
The
salary of a workman shall be payable in legal tender and not otherwise
and if in any contract of service the whole or any part of the salary
is made payable in any other manner the contract of service shall
be illegal, null and void.
Agreements as to place and manner,
etc., of spending salary illegal.
55.
No
contract of service shall contain any terms as to the place at which,
or the manner in which, or the person with whom, any salary paid
to the workman is to be expended and every contract of service containing
such terms shall be illegal, null and void.
Salary to be paid entirely in legal
tender.
56.
Except
where otherwise expressly permitted by the provisions of this Act,
the entire amount of the salary earned by, or payable to, any workman
in respect of any work done by him shall be actually paid to him
in legal tender, and every payment of, or on account of, any such
salary made in any other form shall be illegal, null and void.
Recovery of salary not paid in legal
tender.
57.
Every
workman shall be entitled to recover in any court or before the
Commissioner, acting under section 115, so much of his salary exclusive
of sums lawfully deducted in accordance with the provisions of this
Act as has not been actually paid to him in legal tender.
Interest on advances forbidden.
58.
No
employer shall make any deduction by way of discount, interest or
any similar charge on account of any advance of salary made to any
workman.
Remuneration other than salary.
59.
Nothing
in this Part shall render illegal a contract of service with a workman for
giving to him food, quarters or other allowances or privileges in
addition to money salary as a remuneration for his services, but
no employer shall give to a workman any noxious drugs or intoxicating
liquor by way of remuneration.
Shops and canteens.
60.
—(1)
Nothing
in this Part shall prevent the employer from establishing or permitting
to be established a shop or a canteen for the sale of foodstuffs,
provisions, meals or refreshments; but no workman shall be compelled
by any contract of service to purchase any goods at that shop or
canteen, and no noxious drugs or intoxicating liquor shall be sold
at any such shop or canteen.
(2)
No employer shall establish or keep
or permit to be established or kept, a shop or canteen on any place
of employment for the sale of foodstuffs, provisions, meals or refreshments
to his workmen otherwise than in accordance with subsection (1).
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Offence.
61.
Any
employer who enters into any contract of service or gives any remuneration
for service contrary to the provisions of this Part or declared
by this Part to be illegal or receives any payment from any workman
contrary to the provisions of this Part or contravenes section 60
(2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
to a fine not exceeding $5,000, and for a second or subsequent
offence to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding one year or to both.
Proceedings may be taken against actual
offender.
62.
Repealed by Act 32/2008, wef 01/01/2009.
Payment of salary through bank.
63.
—(1)
Nothing
in section 54 or 56 shall operate so as to render unlawful or invalid
any payment of salary by the employer to the workman in any of the
following ways:(a)
payment into an account at a bank in
Singapore, being an account in the name of the workman or an account
in the name of the workman jointly with one or more other persons;
(b)
payment by cheque made payable to or
to the order of the workman.
(2)
Where the salary or part thereof has
been paid in any of the ways set out in subsection (1), section
57 shall not operate to give a right of recovery of so much of the salary
as has been so paid.
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Limitations on application of Part
V.
64.
Nothing
in this Part shall be held to apply to any body of persons working
on an agreement of co-operation.