Legal Knowledge of Legislated Employment Rights: An Empirical Study
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 self-administered questionnaires from Human Resource (HR) practitioners in the small and medium-sized 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.
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organizational mediation of civil rights law. American Journal of
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[1] Ayadurai, D. (1992). Industrial relations in Malaysia: Law and practice.
Malaysia: Butterworth.
[2] Ayadurai, D. (1994). Malaysia. In Deery S.J & Mitchell R.J. (eds.),
Labour law and industrial relations in Asia (pp. 61-95). Australia:
Longman Cheshire.
[3] Hapriza Ashari. (2004). Undang-undang pekerjaan: Huraian dan
panduan terhadap Akta Kerja 1955. Malaysia: Penerbit Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia.
[4] Ashgar Ali Ali Mohamed. (2010). Contract of service or contract for
service: With special reference to the status of graduate research
assistants in employment law. Industrial Law Report, vol.2, p. Xxxv.
[5] Maimunah Aminuddin. (2011). Malaysian industrial relations and
employment law. Malaysia: Mc Graw-Hill.
[6] Maimunah Aminuddin. (2010). Complying with the employment laws.
Legal Network Series, vol.A, p.xvii.
[7] Balakrishnan, M., Balakrishnan, P., Aryana Satrya and Balan, R. (2010).
The individual employment contract in Malaysia. Industrial Law Report,
vol.2, p.v.
[8] MacEllven, D.T., McGuire, M. J., Campbell, N. A. and Davis J. N.
(2003). Legal research handbook (5th edn.). Canada: Butterworth.
[9] Kim, P. T. (1999). Norms, learning and the law: Exploring the
influences on workers’ legal knowledge. Univesity of Illinois Law
Review, pp. 447-501.
[10] Bacon, N. And Hoque, K. (2005). HRM in SME sector: valuable
employees and coercive networks. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management, vol. 16(11), 1976-1999.
[11] Pratten, J.D. and Lovatt, C.J. (2005). The impact of employment
legislations on micro businesses: A case study from the licensed trade.
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 12(2), pp. 209-
300.
[12] Richard, B. (2004, October 3). SMEs on back foot due to employment
regulation ignorance, says ACAS report. Electronics Weekly, p.3.
[13] Harris, L. (2000). Employment regulation and owner-manager in small
firms: seeking support and guidance. Journal Of Small Business And
Enterprise Development 7(4), pp. 352-362.
[14] Harris, L. (2002). Small firm responses to employment regulation.
Journal Of Small Business And Enterprise Development 9(3), pp. 296-
306.
[15] Marlow, S. (2002). Regulating labour management in small firms.
Human Resource Management Journal 12(3), pp.25-43.
[16] Pratten, J.D. and Lovatt, C.J. (2003). A need for training: The chasm of
knowledge and application of employment regulation within small
business sector. Development And Learning In Organizations 17(5), pp.
4-6.
[17] Atkinson, C. and Curtis, S. (2004). The impact of employment
regulation on the employment relationship in SMEs. Journal Of Small
Business And Enterprise Development, 11(4), pp.486-494.
[18] Edelman, L.B. (1992). Legal ambiguity and symbolic structures:
organizational mediation of civil rights law. American Journal of
Sociology 97(6), pp. 1531-1576.
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