EMPLOYMENT ACT 1955

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1967

TRADE UNION ACT 1959
EPF ACT 1991
FACTORY AND MACHINERY ACT 1967
OSHA 1994
WORKMAN COMPENSATION ACT
Employees' Social Security Act, 1969

Lays down provisions to protect workers

from exploitation and to provide minimum
benefits for all workers.
covered by the Act : employee who earn
not more than RM 2000 per month, those
who carry out manual labour or who
supervise such workers, or are employed
to drive or maintain vehicles...

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of Service, Wages
Working hours;
Right to a weekly, rest day, annual
leave and sick leave; maternity
benefits;
Termination & Retirement benefits.
Employment of foreign employees
Registers, inspection and complaints
Offences and penalties. etc

Regulates the relations between

employers and workmen and their
unions.
rules to help prevent and settle
disputes between the two parties
thus ensuring peaceful industrial
relations.

Protection of rights of workmen and

employers and their trade unions
Recognition and scope of representation of
trade unions
Collective bargaining and agreements
Representations on dismissal
Industrial court
Trade disputes. Strikes and lock-outs

Registration
Rights and liabilities of trade union
Membership
Qualifications of a trade union officer
Trade dispute
Registered office

Employees Provident Fund Act 1991 is the

act governing the Employees Provident
Fund in Malaysia.
Employees Provident Fund is a
compulsory savings scheme in Malaysia.
Its primary aim is to provide a measure of
security for old age retirement to its
members.
It also provides supplementary benefits to
members to utilize part of their savings for
house ownership and other withdrawal
schemes.

Akta Kilang dan Jentera 1967

Applies only to factories
Enforced by Dept. of Occupational
Safety and Health (DOSH)

The Occupational Safety and Health Act is an

Act which provides the legislative framework
to secure the safety, health and welfare
among all Malaysian workforce and to protect
others against risks to safety or health in
connection with the activities of persons at
work.
gazetted on 24th February 1994
OSHA is enforced by DOSH

to secure the safety, health and welfare of

persons at work against risks to safety or health
to protect person at a place of work other than
persons at work against risks to safety or health
to promote an occupational environment for
persons at work

The Social Security Organization is an

organization set up to administer, enforce and
implement the Employees' Social Security
Act, (ESSA) 1969 and the Employees' Social
Security (General) Regulations 1971.

The Social Security Organization provides

social security protection by social insurance
including
medical and cash benefits,
provision of artificial aids and
rehabilitation to employees to reduce the
sufferings and
provide financial guarantees and protection to
the family.