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Rh :(b) section 30H(6) of the Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 136);

“claimant” means a person who lodges a claim with a tribunal, and includes, for the purposes of Part 2, a person who intends to lodge a claim with a tribunal;

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Labour appointed under section 3(1) of the Employment Act;

“contract of service” means an agreement, whether oral or written and whether express or implied, by which a person agrees to employ an individual, and that individual agrees to serve that person, and includes an apprenticeship agreement;

“court” means any court of competent jurisdiction in Singapore;

“employee” means an individual who has entered into and works under a contract of service with an employer, and includes—
 * (a) any employee of the Government within a category, class or description of such employees prescribed to be employees for the purposes of this Act; and
 * (b) for an employment dispute relating to the termination of a contract of service or any mediation request submitted or claim made after the end of a contract of service, the former employee who worked under that contract of service even though the relationship between employee and employer has ended;

“employer” means any person who employs an individual under a contract of service, and includes—
 * (a) the Government in respect of such categories, classes or descriptions of employees of the Government as from time to time are prescribed to be employees for the purposes of this Act;
 * (b) a statutory body;
 * (c) a person duly authorised by an employer to be the employer’s agent or manager;