by DNH (BD) | May 6, 2022 | Employment Law
Constructive Dismissal: Do You Need To Say It? When an employee claims constructive dismissal (ie: where the employee is resigning due to the employer’s breach of contract) what must be said in the resignation letter? Does the employee have to use the words...
by Donovan & Ho (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...
by Donovan & Ho | May 24, 2018 | Employment Law
What happens when an employee “walks out” of their job when they are suspended pending investigations, because they feel they have been wrongly or unfairly accused of misconduct? When an employee does this, they will usually claim that they have been constructively...
by Donovan & Ho | Apr 5, 2018 | Employment Law
The thought of having one’s salary reduced by an employer is often a difficult pill to swallow. In the business landscape, salary reductions are often attributed to either a demotion or the declining financial performance of the company. However, are employee salary...
by Donovan & Ho | Jan 2, 2017 | Employment Law
In Malaysia, the term “constructive dismissal” refers to an act of an employee in terminating his employment due to a breach of contract committed by the employer. The breach committed must have been so severe that it had altered the essential terms of an...
