Key Amendments
the Employment Act
1955 (Gazetted 2022)
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Definition of employee
1. Employee earning
RM4000 and below
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Definition of employee
2. Employee in manual
labour
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Definition of employee
3. Supervisor of
employee in manual
labour
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Definition of employee
4. Employee in
mechanically propelled
vehicle
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Definition of employee
5. Domestic employee
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Apprenticeship
contract
6-24 months period
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Extension of
maternity leave to 98
days
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PATERNITY LEAVE to
7 days
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Sexual harassment
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Reduction on working
hours
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Flexible working
arrangements
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Restriction on
termination of
pregnant employees
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Calculation of wages
for an incomplete
month
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Employment of
foreign employees
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Discrimination
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Wages to be paid
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