COVID-19 and Its Influence on Selected Employment Relationship Issues
This chapter discusses the selected issues of employment law arising from the current COVID-19 pandemic, which a prudent employer would take to withstand its harsh business impact, namely, the pay-cut, flex-work arrangement, and retrenchment of surplus labour, among others. In relation to retrench...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2021
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/90681/1/90681_COVID-19%20and%20Its%20Influence.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/90681/ |
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| Summary: | This chapter discusses the selected issues of employment
law arising from the current COVID-19 pandemic, which a prudent employer would
take to withstand its harsh business impact, namely, the pay-cut, flex-work arrangement, and retrenchment of surplus labour, among others. In relation to retrenchment,
it is worthwhile mentioning that in Malaysia, the terms “retrenchment”, “termination”, and “lay-off” are used interchangeably.1 These terms, however, have different
meanings. At the outset, it must be noted that all retrenchments are terminations,
but all terminations are not retrenchments. When an employee is retrenched, this
amounts to a termination of his services. But when it is said that an employee has
been terminated, it cannot only mean that he is retrenched because retrenchment is
one method in which an employee’s services can be terminated. |
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