Employment Act
Coverage, Part IV thresholds, hours and overtime, leave, KETs and salary rules — the third topic that appears in two sections.
Why it exists — and how it's tested
The Employment Act is Singapore's baseline employment law: the minimum an employer owes almost every local employee — timely salary, capped working hours, paid leave, notice periods. Its terms are a floor, not a ceiling: a job contract may promise better than the Act but never less, and any term below it is . An EA placing locals has to know where that floor sits, because putting someone into a below-Act job is unlawful.
On the exam · Appears in Sections B and C and lives on coverage lines and four numbers. The perennial trap is : who gets hours/OT protection and who doesn't — managers never do, at any salary.
Whole Act = most employees · (hours/OT) = ≤$4,500, others ≤$2,600, never .
Coverage &
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