On 1 April 2019, a number of amendments to the employment law
landscape in Singapore came into force. With the the transfer of
the dispute resolution process for wrongful dismissal claims to the
Employment Claims Tribunals and the expanded definition of
"dismissal" in the Employment Act (EA),
the risk of wrongful dismissal claims by employees is coming more
into focus in the minds of employers.
A set of Tripartite Guidelines on Wrongful Dismissal was jointly
issued by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the
National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the
Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) on
1 April 2019 (the Guidelines) to help provide additional clarity
and guidance on the ambit of to the revamped statutory protections
against wrongful dismissal.
