Medicplas Industries Sdn Bhd V

INDUSTRIAL COURT OF MALAYSIA
CASE NO. 12/4-410/04
BETWEEN
ENCIK YAP CHO HEEON
AND
FIMCO MANAGEMENT SDN. BHD.

AWARD NO. 704

OF 2012

Before

: Y.A. TUAN GULAM MUHIADDEEN
BIN ABDUL AZIZ
- CHAIRMAN

Venue

: Industrial Court, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur

Date of Reference : 27.02.2004
Dates of Mention

: 25.05.2004;
07.12.2004;
15.09.2005;
31.05.2007;
03.12.2008;
23.09.2010;
17.01.2011;
06.04.2011;

10.08.2004;
16.12.2004;
12.07.2006;
31.03.2008;
03.06.2010;
28.10.2010;
17.02.2011;
11.05.2011;

08.09.2004;
09.08.2005;
11.09.2006;
06.05.2008;
19.08.2010;
09.12.2010;
02.03.2011;
09.06.2011

Dates of Hearing

: 07.07.2005;
13.03.2008;
26.06.2009;
27.10.2009;
17.03.2010

16.10.2007;
09.10.2008;
26.08.2009;
05.01.2010;

17.10.2007;
03.12.2008;
19.10.2009;
11.02.2010;

Dates of receipt of written
Submissions

: 17.01.2011 (from Claimant’s Counsel)
: 05.04.2011 (from Company’s Counsel)

1

Representation

: Mr. C.K. Ng from Messrs Wong & Associates,
Counsel for the Claimant
: Ms. Elizabeth Loo from Lee Hishammuddin Allen &
Gledhill, Counsel for the Company

Reference:
This

is

a

reference

made

Industrial Relations Act

1967

ENCIK

HEEON

YAP

CHOO

under

arising

section

out

(“the

of

20(3)

the

Claimant”)

of

the

dismissal of by FIMCO

MANAGEMENT SDN. BHD. (“the Company”).

AWARD
Introduction
The parties to this dispute herein before this Court are FIMCO
Management Sdn. Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) and Yap Cho Heeon (hereinafter referred to as “the Claimant”). The dispute is with reference to Section 20 of the Industrial Relations Act
1967 whereby the Claimant contends and considers himself to be constructively dismissed from the service of the Company with effect from 31 May 2000.
This matter was heard by Y.A. Datin Yeoh Wee Siam from
16 October 2007 until 3 December 2008. She heard the evidence of the Claimant and CLW-2 and also partly the cross-examination of
COW-1.

On 1 January 2009, Y.A.

Datin Yeoh Wee Siam was

appointed as the Judicial