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In France, the employer of a married engineer who died while having sex with a stranger during a business trip was found liable to pay his family compensation.
In Singapore, the families of workers who might end up in a similar situation are unlikely to get compensation under labour laws here, say legal and insurance experts. They noted the Work Injury Compensation Act (Wica) does not define what constitutes a "work-related accident".
So it would be left to the courts, which are more likely to rule for the employer because an accident from a sexual act done outside the employee's professional duties cannot be deemed to have been "in the course of duty".
Lawyer Gloria James-Civetta told The New Paper: "Singapore law does not limit claim to during office hours... (but it) requires the injury to have been sustained during the 'course of employment'."
She said: "No one really expects to die or get injured from hooking up with someone, but in the rare case that they do, it is a private matter, I would not expect my company to cover it."
Link - https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/death-sex-work-trip-who-liable
In Singapore, the families of workers who might end up in a similar situation are unlikely to get compensation under labour laws here, say legal and insurance experts. They noted the Work Injury Compensation Act (Wica) does not define what constitutes a "work-related accident".
So it would be left to the courts, which are more likely to rule for the employer because an accident from a sexual act done outside the employee's professional duties cannot be deemed to have been "in the course of duty".
Lawyer Gloria James-Civetta told The New Paper: "Singapore law does not limit claim to during office hours... (but it) requires the injury to have been sustained during the 'course of employment'."
She said: "No one really expects to die or get injured from hooking up with someone, but in the rare case that they do, it is a private matter, I would not expect my company to cover it."
Link - https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/death-sex-work-trip-who-liable
, I suspect I’m not alone here.
