SAL Practitioner: The spectre of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence - Employer’s obligation to comply with all of its own policies

20 August 2024

Allen & Gledhill Partner Christine Tee and Senior Associate Prabu Devaraj Raman contributed an article titled “The spectre of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence: Employer’s obligation to comply with all of its own policies” to SAL Practitioner, published by the Singapore Academy of Law. The case comment discusses the Singapore High Court’s decision in Kallivalap Praveen Nair v Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare Pte Ltd [2023] 3 SLR 922, which dealt with the issue of whether an employer is obliged, by way of an implied term of mutual trust and confidence, to comply with its own internal policies. The court ruled that such a term was not implied on the facts or in law, citing reasons of uncertainty not just for the employer in question, but also other employers as well.