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Last year Malaysia faced a shortage of 5,000 doctors. Due to this, the Government proposes to extend the compulsory public service for doctors to five or 10 years from the current three to overcome the annual shortage of doctors in its hospitals. Since 1971, all Doctors are required to serve with the Government for five [...]
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Posted by admin on December 29th, 2009
v Annual leave – An employee is entitled to annual leave only after 12 months of continuous service as follows: 1] Less than 2 years of service – 8 days for each year 2] 2 years or more but less than 5 years – 12 days for each year 3] More than 5 years – [...]
Posted in Employment, Employment Act 1955 
Tags: annual leave, mandatory leave, sick leave 
No Comments »1Malaysia EPF retirement scheme for self-employed
Posted by admin on December 23rd, 2009
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will launch the 1Malaysia Retirement Saving Scheme on Jan 3 next year. The scheme was first announced by the Prime Minister during the tabling of the 2010 Budget in October. The retirement scheme aims to provide a care of the welfare of all strata of the self-employed who had no [...]
700 Dell workers to lose jobs
Posted by admin on December 16th, 2009
Some 700 workers of Dell Malaysia at Bukit Minyak plant in Penang will be unemployed soon as the Company will do voluntary separation scheme (VSS) exercise. The 700 include those in the operator, supervisory and managerial positions. The decision is in line with the decision to transfer the division that manufactured notebooks for Latin America, [...]
Return To Work rehabilitation programme
Posted by admin on September 7th, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR: The Social Security Organisation (Socso) will soon launch a programme to help its contributors who are disabled due to occupational injuries to return to work. Under the “Return To Work” rehabilitation programme, the members would be retrained for new employment opportunities apart from being provided with other support. “This way we will also [...]
Posted in Career News, Employment Tags: Return To Work rehabilitation programme, SOCSO No Comments »Reasons for termination of employment
Posted by admin on September 6th, 2009
In our earlier post, we cover the Notice of termination as per the EMPLOYMENT ACT. However, there are some reasons that the employer may terminate an employee’s contract as follows Retirement Section 14(1) IRA- misconduct Wilful Breach of Contract Retrenchment Criminal Offence Frustration of Contract Repudiation of Contract Effluxion of time [contract of service for [...]
