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MYS-2011-L-88086
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Title_of_text
Employment (Amendment) Act 2011 [BILL].
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Malaysia
Subjects (Classification)
Labour codes, general labour and employment acts
Adopted on (Date of text)
2011
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
The amended was passed as Employment (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act A1419). The following is a summary of the Bill as published in 2011.
The primary purpose of this Bill is to require the payment of wages of employees including domestic servants to be made into bank accounts, to provide for the registration of information relating to the supply of employees by a contractor for labour, to require information regarding the termination of service of foreign domestic servant and foreign employees to be submitted and to provide for the inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment.
Amends section 2, inter alia by inserting a new definitions for "contractor for labour", "foreign domestic servant", "Minister", "part-time employee" and "sexual harassment". Deletes the definition of "sub-contractor for labour".
Amends section 4 (minor changes) as well as section 19 by inserting a new section on time of payment of wages. Major changes are made to Part V - the title is changed to read "System of Payment of Wage" and sections 25, 25A and 31 are amended. Part VII is also modified, the title being changed to "Contractors, Principals and Contractors for Labour". Sections 33A, 37, 40, 42, 44A, 57A and 57B (domestic workers), 59, 60, 60D, 60I, 60K, 69, 69B, 73, 77 and 79 are all amended.
A new Part XVA entitled Sexual Harassment has been added. Section 81, 82, 86, 90A, 101A, 101B and 102.
Amended Text region
Amended text(s)
1955 (MYS-1955-L-48055)
Employment Act 1955 (No. 265).
Related Text region
Related text(s)
2012-02-09 (MYS-2012-L-89543)
Employment (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act A1419).
Monograph region
Monograph title
Printed separately
Date
2011-10
Page range
23 p.
File
F569484612/MYS88086.pdf (PDF of Law in English)