Expert Insights Legal

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This article will focus on how employers should legally lay off employees when the business needs to reduce workforce due to operating losses or business contraction, or when employees are incompetent at their jobs.

The Employment Act 2022 (the Amendment Act), which calls for changes to the Employment Act of 1955, was introduced to the Malaysian Parliament in Oct 2021 with changes to take effect from 1 January 2023.

The increases to national minimum wages approved by the National Wages Committee, and due to come into effect on 1 October 2022. This is the first increase in legal minimum wages since January 2020.