Article Related To Employment Act 1955

Employers are not allowed to terminate their employees who are on maternity or sick leave during pregnancy, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

The enforcement of the Employment Act 1955 (Amendment) 2022 will be implemented on Jan 1, 2023, said Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar.

The implementation of the amended Employment Act 1955 is deferred to give time for employers to address their problems on shortage of workers and recruitment of foreign workers.

Amendments to the Employment Act 1955 (Act 265), which among others, proposed for paternity leave to be increased to seven days, was approved in the Dewan Rakyat today with a majority voice vote.

The Ministry of Human Resources is looking into the need for a law, specifically to regulate gig workers and protect their welfare as this group is not covered by the Employment Act 1955.

This is to ensure that salary payments would be made before the seventh day of each month as stipulated under the Employment Act 1955.

The Human Resource Ministry gave its assurance that all employees of the Malindo Airways Sdn Bhd (Malindo Airways) who have been laid off will receive their unemployment benefits.

The proposal to amend the Employment Act 1955 was to improve the minimum standard of employment, in line with the international labour standards.

Any job opportunity must be offered to local job seekers first especially considering these challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A detailed working paper on the issue of foreign workers' accommodation had already been made by the ministry and presented to a committee chaired by Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

According to the Employment Act a staffs salary should be paid by the 7th of the following month.

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