Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452)
Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452), article 34
34. (1) Saving as otherwise prescribed by this Act, the
conditions of employment in a fixed term contract shall not be less
favourable than those which woul d have been applicable had the
same contract of employment at t he same place of work been for an
indefinite time, unless different treatment is justified on obj ective
grounds:
Provided that this article shall not apply to contracts of
employees on initial vocational training and, or, on apprentice ship
schemes.
(2) Any employee on a fixed te rm contract of service whose
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contract has expired and is reta ined by his employer shall be
deemed to be retained on an inde finite period contract if the s aid
employee is not given a new contr act of service within the firs t
twelve working days following th e expiry of the previous contra ct.
(3) The Minister may, after consultation with the Board, make
regulations to -
(a) give better effect to the prin ciple of non-discrimination
between employees on fixed-term contracts and
employees on indefinite contracts;
(b) establish the circumstances when, for objective
reasons, conditions in fixed term contracts may be
different from conditions in indefinite contracts;
(c) generally to regulate any ma tter relating to fixed-term
contracts.
Rights of
employees to
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information.
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