Proposals · Hawkers and Social Protection

Bookable relief cooks (§2.11.1 proposal 4)

Bookable relief cooks so that illness need not close the stall: the hawker's equivalent of an employee's paid sick leave.

It is costed in the plan's Relief-Hawker Corps and builds on NEA's joint-operator and nominee routes, which are too slow or too rigid for a sudden illness: a nominee takes 4–6 weeks, and a joint operator must work at least four hours every business day. The relief notice (§2.7) asks for speed and a short-cover variant, not a new rule. In HDB-rented and private coffeeshops it is easier, since there is no personal-operation rule; it needs the operator's consent.

Who pays

The library gives this mechanism no who-pays tag of its own.

What it costs

Costed in the plan's Relief-Hawker Corps

Costed in the plan's Relief-Hawker Corps · the relief notice (§2.7); Seed Bank

What it builds on

Paid sick leave for employees; NEA's joint-operator and nominee routes, which the Corps builds on (§2.11.1).

The ask of Government

Decision: The relief notice – a pre-registered Corps cook becomes a joint operator for the days of a hawker's absence, up to 30 a year (more with a medical certificate), without the standing four-hour duty; the days count as personal operation; deemed approved unless NEA objects within two working days
Instrument: the relief notice (§2.7); Seed Bank
Fiscal cost: Costed in the plan's Relief-Hawker Corps
Gap closed: No paid sick leave

From §2.11.1, §2.11.2.

Who gains

Hawkers: Illness need not close the stall (§2.11.1).

Where the library discusses it

§2.11.1 · Hawkers and Social Protection, C.7 · §2.7

Note: Model scores sit on relief-hawker-corps.