Managing Discipline at the Workplace
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Day 1: Employer Employee Relationship
Module 1: Employment Contracts
- Types of contracts
- Differences between Contract of service and Contract for service
- What should be included in contracts
- What documents form the basis of contracts?
- Master – Servant Relationship
- Legal Registers
Module 2: Working Hours and Days and OverTime
- Normal working hours, 6 or 5-day weeks?
- Overtime Rates, Duty Roster
Module 3: Rest Days & OT
- Rest Days entitlement
- Calculation of payment rates for 2 rest days per week
- Can rest days be replaced?
Module 4: Public Holidays & OT
- Public holidays entitlement
- Payment rates if PH falls on Rest Day
- Rate for work in excess of normal hours on OT
- Absenteeism before and / or after PH
Module 5: Annual Leave
- Annual Leave entitlement
- Carry forward of annual leave
- Forfeiture of unutilized annual leave
- Annual leave entitlement for terminated employee
- Handling the problem of unutilized annual leave on termination
Module 6: Sick Leave
- Hospitalization & Non-hospitalization Leave entitlement
- Prolonged illness leave
- Time limit to inform employer of sick leave
- What action can employer take if employee does not inform of sick leave within the time limit?
- MC from non-panel doctors
- Termination / Dismissal of employee while on sick leave
- Medically Boarding Out
Module 7: Maternity Protection
- Number of days of Maternity Leave entitlement
- Obligations of employer to pay maternity allowance to ex-employees under certain conditions
- Calculation of maternity allowance for deceased employees
- Conditions for Maternity Allowance
- Dismissals before, during and after maternity leave
- Can an employee be forced to go on maternity leave before confinement date?
- Legal Register
Module 8: Wages & Salaries
- Limit on deductions
- How to recover monies owed by employee
- Limit of salary advance for any purpose
- Procedure for giving staff loans
- How to recover for overpayment of salaries
- Legalities involved in paying by cheque or crediting the bank
- Registers
Day 2: Overview of Industrial Relationship Act 1967
- Understand the meaning of 'strike', 'lock-out', 'collective agreement', 'collective barganing' and 'essential services',
- Industrial Court of Malaysia
- Misconduct in Employment
Module 9: Definition of Misconduct
- Negligence and insubordination
- Aggravation of Misconduct
- Provocation of Misconduct
- Criminal Misconduct
Module 10: Suspension of Employees
- Suspension period
- Situation for suspension
- Limit on suspension period
- The different payment rates during suspension
Module 11: Disciplinary action
- Types of disciplinary action
- The legal need for Domestic Inquiry
- The Code of Conduct for Industrial Harmony
Module 12: Legal Handling of Situations for Disciplinary Action
- Habitual absenteeism, Tardiness
- Habitual late coming / leaving early
- Abuse of MC, Poor performance
Module 13: Unfair Dismissals and Constructive Dismissals
- Time limit for employee to make complaints underIndustrial Relations Act 1967
- Who may represent employer for conciliation proceedings?
- Who may represent employer in Industrial Courts?
- Maximum compensation
Module 14: Probationers
- Probation period
- Termination of probationer, Extension of probation
- Non-confirmation of probationer
- Issue of the ‘forgotten’ probationer
- The “deeming’ clause for probationers, Disciplinary problems
- Notice period for resignation during probation
- Benefits for probationers
Module 15: Termination: Retrenchment/Lay-off/Downsizing/Relocation of Business/Change of Ownership
- Notice period for Termination / lay-off
- Situations for termination, Situations for giving notice
- Rate of Termination Benefits, Payment date
- LIFO or FIFO, Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS)
Module 16: Other Legal Issues
- Medically Boarding Out
- Frustration of contracts
- Benefits, expiry and renewal of fixed term contracts, Retirement
- Gratuity payments
- Transfers, Job reallocation
- Reduction of salary, allowances and benefits
- Re-designation of position, Reorganization of company
- Training, Performance management
- The Code of Conduct for Industrial Harmony
- Legalprecedents set by Industrial Court Awards
Module 17: Domestic Inquiry Procedure(Practical)
- The Stages of a Domestic Inquiry
- Preliminary Inquiry
- Charge sheet
- Notice of Inquiry
- Inquiry Proper
- Decision of Panel
- When is a DI necessary and how to handle?
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