Legal Framework for Managers
An Act relating to employment. [1st June 1957.]
PART I - PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and application
(1) This Act may be cited as the Employment Act 1955.
(2) This Act shall apply to West Malaysia only.
2. Interpretation
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires --
"agricultural undertaking" means any work in which any employee is employed under a contract of service for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or silviculture, the tending of domestic animals and poultry or the collection of the produce of any plants or trees;
"apprenticeship contract" means a written contract entered into by a person with an employer who undertakes to employ the person and train or have him trained systematically for a trade for a specified period which shall not be less than two years in the course of which the apprentice is bound to work in the employer's service;
"approved amenity or approved service" means any amenity or service -- * (a) approved by the Director General under section 29 (2) on application made to him by an employer for its inclusion in a contract of service; or * (b) provided for in any award made by the Industrial Court or in any collective agreement;
"approved incentive payment scheme" means an incentive payment scheme approved by the Director General under, and for the purposes of, section 601;
"collective agreement" has the same meaning assigned thereto in the Industrial Relations Act 1967;
"confinement" means parturition resulting after at least twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy in the issue of a child or children, whether alive or dead, and shall for the purposes of this Act commence and end on the actual day of birth and where two or more children are born at one confinement shall commence and end on the day of the birth of the last-born of such children, and the word "confined" shall be construed accordingly;
"constructional contractor" means any person, firm, corporation or company who or which is established for the
PART I - PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and application
(1) This Act may be cited as the Employment Act 1955.
(2) This Act shall apply to West Malaysia only.
2. Interpretation
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires --
"agricultural undertaking" means any work in which any employee is employed under a contract of service for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or silviculture, the tending of domestic animals and poultry or the collection of the produce of any plants or trees;
"apprenticeship contract" means a written contract entered into by a person with an employer who undertakes to employ the person and train or have him trained systematically for a trade for a specified period which shall not be less than two years in the course of which the apprentice is bound to work in the employer's service;
"approved amenity or approved service" means any amenity or service -- * (a) approved by the Director General under section 29 (2) on application made to him by an employer for its inclusion in a contract of service; or * (b) provided for in any award made by the Industrial Court or in any collective agreement;
"approved incentive payment scheme" means an incentive payment scheme approved by the Director General under, and for the purposes of, section 601;
"collective agreement" has the same meaning assigned thereto in the Industrial Relations Act 1967;
"confinement" means parturition resulting after at least twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy in the issue of a child or children, whether alive or dead, and shall for the purposes of this Act commence and end on the actual day of birth and where two or more children are born at one confinement shall commence and end on the day of the birth of the last-born of such children, and the word "confined" shall be construed accordingly;
"constructional contractor" means any person, firm, corporation or company who or which is established for the