Excessive Leaves in Malaysia, Too Much Leisure to Employees Whilst Unbearable Burden to Employer?

• Main Author: Razi, Zahratul Najihah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: K Law (General)
• Online Access: https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/30457/1/SOLAS%20VI_2022_76_82.pdf; https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/30457/

This paper intends to portray the leaves benefit enjoyed by employees working in Malaysia, a comparison to neighbouring countries and a developed country including a best practice by Malaysian-leading company, whether Malaysia employees being overindulged with a lot of leisure rather than contributing for the escalation of product and profit for the economic growth of a company's business, which resulted into a burden for employer for having had to allocate a large portion of money for providing employees with a paid-leisure. Neighbouring countries such as Singapore, Thailand and Brunei is being chosen for having a quite similar standing in Malaysia's socio-economic. While South Africa is being chosen because of the amendment of its' labour laws was made with the assistance of the South African's Commission and the Industrial Court and supported by /LO experts (/LO, Delivering excellent decent work results in Africa: Working Together for a better Africa, 2019) which put a high standard of the /LO Convention compliance. This paper also intent to portray the real working days compared to leaves in a calendar year, in comparison to other countries. At the end of this paper, it is concluded that employees shall be allowed to have a work-life balance (/LO, Decent Working Time: Balancing Worker's Needs with Business Requirements, 2007) in accordance with the /LO mission. Besides, the good practice of most government-link companies and leading companies in Malaysia indicates that providing employees with a good benefit does not in any way destruct the performance of the company in economic sector.