by Donovan & Ho | Aug 2, 2018 | Corporate and Commercial, Employment Law
Private employment agencies (informally, but commonly referred to here as “headhunters” or “recruitment agencies”) are regulated by the Private Employment Agencies Act 1981 (“Act”). The Private Employment Agencies (Amendment) Act 2017 (“Amendments”) came...
by Donovan & Ho | Jul 30, 2018 | Employment Law
The latest in the legal drama involving Chatime and Tealive saw the Federal Court allowing Tealive to stay open pending their leave to appeal to the Federal Court (If you’re not caught up yet with the twists and turns in the Bubble Tea Wars, check out our earlier...
by Donovan & Ho | Jul 26, 2018 | Employment Law
How do the courts determine whether someone is an “employee” or not? We’ve seen this question asked numerous times, not just in Malaysia but across the world. With the rise of the “gig economy”, individuals are no longer tied down to traditional fixed employment and...
by Donovan & Ho | Jul 18, 2018 | Tax
Following the zero-rating of Goods and Services Tax (“GST”) beginning 1 June 2018, our Finance Minister has announced that the government will reintroduce the Sales and Services Tax (“SST”) with a rate of 10% for sales and 6% for services, with the bill expected to be...
by Donovan & Ho | Jul 17, 2018 | Dispute Resolution
Are you having trouble keeping track of the Tealive-Chatime dispute? To recap, here’s what happened: On 27 June 2018, the Court of Appeal granted an injunction that ordered Tealive to cease operations (“Court of Appeal Order”) On 5 July 2018, the Court of Appeal...
