Hapriza Ashari and Nik Ahmad Kamal Nik Mahmod
Legal Knowledge of Legislated Employment Rights An Empirical Study
2726 - 2732
2013
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International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/17102
https://publications.waset.org/vol/82
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
This article aims to assess the level of basic knowledge of statutory employment rights at the workplace as prescribed by the Malaysian Employment Act 1955. The statutory employment rights comprises of a variety of individual employment rights such as protections of wages, statutory right to the general standard of working time, statutory right to rest day, public holidays, annual leave and sick leave as well as female employee’s statutory right to paid maternity leave. A field survey was carried out to collect data by using selfadministered questionnaires from Human Resource (HR) practitioners in the small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). The results reveal that the level of basic knowledge of legislated employment rights varies between different types of statutory rights from high level to low level.
Open Science Index 82, 2013