{"id":7653,"date":"2021-08-01T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dollarsandsense.sg\/business\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2021-07-31T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:51:00","slug":"for-better-or-worse-would-covid-19-change-employment-relationship-between-companies-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dollarsandsense.sg\/business\/for-better-or-worse-would-covid-19-change-employment-relationship-between-companies-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"For Better Or Worse: Would #TheNewNormal Change Employment Relationship Between Companies & Workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some people believe that the COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated certain employment trends. For example, work-from-home or remote working was already happening in some companies before the pandemic. Now, working from home is the norm for many companies rather than the exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, there are other employment trends that we are seeing which, for better or worse, have appeared because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, companies that focus only on hiring workers based in Singapore can now explore making offshore hires<\/a>. That\u2019s because if a company is already working from home, then the disadvantage of an offshore hire is largely mitigated since nobody is working in the office in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This brings us to another interesting question. How would employment relationships change during an era where remote working is increasingly becoming the norm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contract For Service Or Contract Of Service?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk once said that there is no such thing as a business<\/a>. Rather, he says a company is a bunch of people coming together to create a product or service. However, what if the people who are coming together to create an excellent product or service for a business isn\u2019t even a direct employee of the company?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, many companies work with freelancers and third-party service providers to support their business. A startup may work with a small accounting firm to ensure its book-keeping is done correctly and may work with a production house to do all its videos. Many firms outsource some parts of their technology work. Work that is sourced out doesn\u2019t always need to be a company but could also be to an individual as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why it\u2019s important to understand the differences in employment relationships between a worker who is on a Contract of Service, and a worker who is on a Contact For Service<\/a>. A worker who is on a Contract for Service does not get statutory benefits such as annual leaves, maternity\/paternity leaves, public holidays, and medical leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remote Working & The Dilemma With Part-Time Employment<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Part-time employment used to be simple to understand. Rather than come to the office daily from Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm each day, a part-time employee may come in only 2-3 times each week, or may work only in the morning or in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like full-time employees, part-time employees are also entitled to statutory benefits such as annual leaves and time off if a public holiday falls on a non-working day. For example, if you are a part-timer who only works on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a public holiday fall on Thursday (a non-working day for you), you will be entitled to time off, or additional salary in lieu of the public holiday. This will be pro-rated based on how many hours you work in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this sounds confusing enough, imagine what happens if a part-time employee, who is 100% working-from-home, gets some time off for a public holiday that falls on a non-working day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If everyone is working in the office, this is simple enough. The part-time worker gets to come in late or goes off early for that day. But in a WFH-era, would getting some time off for that day be a concept that makes sense and is realistically applicable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or for companies that are 100% working from home, would it just be easier for all parties if part-time employees are simply considered freelancers on Contract for Service moving forward?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Also: <\/strong><\/em>How Much Employers Have To Pay Employees For Working On A Public Holiday?<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new normal could means employment relationships may change between companies and workers\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[364],"tags":[474,1123,399,1068,917],"yoast_head":"\nFor Better Or Worse: Would #TheNewNormal Change Employment Relationship Between Companies & Workers? | DollarsAndSense Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As we continue to embrace work from as part of the new normal, we should also re-look existing employment relationship\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dollarsandsense.sg\/business\/for-better-or-worse-would-covid-19-change-employment-relationship-between-companies-workers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For Better Or Worse: Would #TheNewNormal Change Employment Relationship Between Companies & Workers? 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