WORK RIGHTS SINGAPORE

Fired, retrenched or unpaid in Singapore? Know your options.

Plain-English guides to your rights and the steps to claim, cited to MOM and TADM.

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Most useful for senior and management-level roles and larger claims.

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Losing your job

Retrenched, dismissed, or terminated? Understand where you stand before you do anything.

Retrenchment rights Notice, retrenchment benefit, the MOM guidelines, and what to do if it was unfair. Retrenchment benefit calculator Estimate your retrenchment payout and notice from your salary and years of service. Unfair dismissal What counts as unfair, the MOM/TADM claim route, time limits, and remedies. Wrongful dismissal How it differs from unfair dismissal, the legal grounds, and your remedies.

Money you are owed

Unpaid wages, or an employer that has gone under? Here is how to recover what you are owed.

Salary claims How to make a MOM/TADM salary claim, the time limits, and what you can recover. Insolvency & winding up What happens to unpaid wages when an employer is insolvent, and your priority as a creditor.

Contracts & the process

Disputes over your contract, and how employment disputes are actually resolved in Singapore.

Notice & pay in lieu Statutory notice by length of service, salary in lieu, probation, and waiving notice. Contract disputes Restrictive covenants, common contract disputes, and your options. The dispute process Raising a grievance, TADM mediation, and the Employment Claims Tribunals, step by step. Employment Claims Tribunals What the ECT hears, the claim limits, the deadlines, and how a hearing works.

Getting help

When the free MOM/TADM route is enough, and when a lawyer helps.

Labour lawyer in Singapore When you need a lawyer, what they do at each stage, and how to get started. Get in touch Tell us what happened. Your enquiry comes to our team and we reply ourselves.

For senior management & executives

If you held a senior or management-level role, the stakes are usually highest: exit packages, restrictive covenants, variable pay, and senior dismissals are higher-stakes matters where the sums are larger and the details matter.

Executive severance & exit packages Notice, pro-rated bonus, unvested shares, garden leave, and how to negotiate a senior exit. Non-compete & restrictive covenants When a non-compete or non-solicit clause is actually enforceable in Singapore, and when it is not. Bonus, commission & share options Recovering a contractual bonus, disputed commission, or ESOP shares when you leave. Senior & director dismissals How dismissal differs for managers and directors, and where large claims are heard.

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Why trust this site? Every guide is written in plain English and cites primary sources (the Ministry of Manpower, the Employment Act, and TADM) so you can verify the rules yourself. Work Rights SG is an independent information resource, not a law firm. Nothing is passed to a law firm today: we have no referral arrangement in place. The match option records what you would want if we set one up, and we would ask you again first.

Not sure where you stand?

For a senior or management-level role, a large claim, or a contested situation, tell us what happened and we will connect you with an employment lawyer for a consultation. For a straightforward, smaller claim, the free MOM/TADM guides above are often all you need.

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Tell us what happened. Your enquiry comes to the Work Rights SG team and we read every one. We do not have a referral arrangement with a law firm in place at the moment, so we are not passing enquiries to anyone.

Not every case needs a lawyer. This is most useful if you were in a senior or management role, or the money at stake is substantial. For straightforward cases the free MOM and TADM route these guides describe usually gets there on its own.

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