Updated Advisory for Covid19 Vaccination at the workplace

30/08/2021

New guidelines are issued by tripartite partners Ministry of Manpower (MOM), National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) on 23 Aug 2021 –

Updated Advisory for Covid19 Vaccination at the workplace.

Quick Summary of the Advisory:

  1. All employers are urged to consider implementing a regime for existing employees and new hires to get vaccinated or undergo regular tests.
  2. Employers may ask staff who are eligible but choose not to be vaccinated to pay for regular testing, and exclude them from medical benefits linked to Covid-19.
  3. Employers should not terminate or threaten to terminate the service of an employee on the basis of vaccination status alone. But they can terminate an unvaccinated employee who does not comply with reasonable vaccination-differentiated workplace measures.
  4. Employers can require medically eligible workers who are not vaccinated to bear additional costs under the regime.
  5. Employers may require unvaccinated employees to undergo Pre-Event Testing (PET) before participating in workplace events or implement reduced group sizes when unvaccinated employees participate in such events, especially those involving mask-off activities, in line with the prevailing MOH guidelines.
  6. While employers may continue to deploy unvaccinated employees in higher risk activities with regular testing, they can also decide whether to redeploy these employees to another job with lower risk of COVID-19 infection, commensurate with the employee’s experience and skills, as per existing redeployment policies.
  7. Unvaccinated employees may be discharged later from treatment or may be served with longer periods of movement restrictions such as SHN 8 , compared to vaccinated employees. In such situations, employers can require that the additional days a medically eligible but unvaccinated employee has to serve, be taken from existing leave entitlements. If leave entitlements have been exhausted, employers may require such an employee to go on no-pay leave.

More details can be found on the 23 Aug 2021 Advisory issued by MOM: https://www.mom.gov.sg/covid-19/advisory-on-covid-19-vaccination-in-employment-settings

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