Written Answer by Minister for Manpower Dr Tan See Leng to PQ on Completion Date for Report by Advisory Committee on Platform Workers

NOTICE PAPER NO. 1463 OF 2022 FOR THE SITTING ON 7 NOVEMBER 2022

QUESTION NO. 2329 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim 

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) whether there is a precise anticipated completion date for the report by the Advisory Committee on Platform Workers; (b) whether the Committee has arrived at any preliminary conclusions for legislative action pertaining to job protections related to gig work that it is able to share; and (c) if not, whether the Committee is able to share the broad scope of its work programme instead. 

Answer:

The Advisory Committee on Platform Workers has been engaging extensively in the past few months with platform companies and workers on strengthening protections for platform workers.

The committee remains on course to finalise its recommendations by the end of this year, which is approaching soon. The committee will be in a better position to share more details then. It is premature to specify legislative actions before the work of the committee is concluded.

The Government will consider the committee’s recommendations after they have been submitted, and will engage stakeholders further on the implementation details.