by DNH (BD) | Feb 10, 2020 | Employment Law
Mutual separation is an agreement between the employer and the employee for the employment relationship to come to an end. Usually, the main feature of a mutual separation is that the employer will agree to a financial pay-out in exchange for the employee agreeing to...
by DNH (BD) | Feb 7, 2020 | Employment Law
The Ministry of Human Resources has announced guidelines to employers for dealing with employment issues arising from the 2019 novel coronavirus infections (2019-nCoV) (“Guidelines”). We have summarised the Guidelines below: Medical examination Employees who...
by DNH (BD) | Jan 9, 2020 | Employment Law
On 18.12.2019, Parliament passed a bill to amend certain provisions of the Employees Provident Fund Act 1991 (“EPF Act”), which will come into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister of Finance by notification in the Gazette. Some of these amendments...
by DNH (BD) | Dec 16, 2019 | Employment Law
The minimum retirement age in Malaysia is governed by the Minimum Retirement Age Act 2012 (“MRAA 2012”). The MRAA 2012 sets out certain obligations and prohibitions that employers need to be aware of before retiring their employees. What is the minimum retirement age...
by DNH (BD) | Nov 25, 2019 | Employment Law
When an employee under-performs for a continuous period of time, an employer is entitled to place the employee on Performance Improvement Plan or (“PIP”). The employer would usually place the under-performing employee on a PIP in the hopes that the employee...
by DNH (BD) | Nov 4, 2019 | Employment Law
Constructive dismissal is always easy to allege but not easy to prove in Court. The burden to prove a constructive dismissal claim lies on the employee and the Courts would usually apply a strict test for a constructive dismissal claim to succeed. Recently, the firm...
