Managing Employment Under the Sarawak Labour Ordinance 2025: A Practical HR Guide
A two-day workshop on the Sarawak Labour Ordinance (Amendment) 2025: contracts, wages, leave, discipline and termination, with a ready-to-apply compliance framework.
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Labour law and HR2 days (16 hours)
What you will be able to do
- Explain the major changes under the Sarawak Labour Ordinance (Amendment) 2025 and what they mean for employers
- Draft, review and manage compliant employment contracts
- Apply the rules on wages, leave, working hours and special employee categories
- Run fair and lawful disciplinary processes, domestic inquiries and performance improvement plans
- Find compliance gaps in your organisation and close them
Who should attend
- Employers and business owners operating in Sarawak
- HR managers, executives and practitioners
- Startup founders and SME operators managing their own workforce
- Operations and admin managers with HR duties
- Labour consultants and legal advisors
Course outline
- 1
Understanding the legal landscape
- Malaysian labour law and how it applies in Sarawak
- Key amendments under the 2025 Ordinance
- Employee categories covered
- Employer obligations and liability
- 2
Employment contracts
- Requirements for a valid contract
- Express and implied terms
- Contract of service versus contract for service
- 3
Wages, deductions and employer obligations
- Minimum wage compliance
- Permissible deductions and limits
- Payroll practices that protect employers
- 4
Leave, hours and special employee categories
- Working hours, overtime and meal breaks
- Annual, sick and public holiday entitlements
- Women employees, children and young persons, foreign workers
- Anti-discrimination and forced labour prohibition
- 5
Termination, done legally and fairly
- Grounds and procedures for lawful termination
- Retirement and non-renewal of fixed-term contracts
- Retrenchment, frustration of contract and constructive dismissal
- 6
Managing poor performance
- Designing a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
- Poor performance versus misconduct
- Lawful termination for poor performance
- 7
Misconduct, discipline and dispute resolution
- Show cause letters and domestic inquiries
- Filing complaints with the Labour Department
- Industrial Court and alternative dispute resolution
- Domestic inquiry mooting exercise
Your trainer
- Practising advocate and HRD Corp accredited trainerLL.B (Hons), Queensland; Advocate of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak
Admitted solicitor of the Supreme Court of Australia, with 7 years in civil litigation in Sabah and Sarawak and extensive HR and legal training experience.
Upcoming sessions
No public date is listed for this course right now. Message us and we will tell you when the next session opens, or arrange it in-house for your team.
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