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When Being Sued by Former Employee

Is your Company being sued by your former employee seeking for different remedies, e.g. unfair dismissal claim at the Industrial Relations Department/Industrial Court, complaint at Labour Office and seeking for compensation such as overtime pay, unpaid wages, termination benefit or defamation suit against employee/director of the Company, arising out of the employment relationship?

Fret not, our Penang Employment Lawyer is able to advise and represent your Company to defend those claims and legal suits accordingly.

Unfair dismissal claim at Industrial Court

Our Penang Employment Lawyer can represent your Company/you as the Employer to defend the unfair dismissal claim brought by former employee at the Industrial Court. Throughout the years, we have represented numerous Companies/Employers to defend different kinds of unfair dismissal claim, such as:

  • Dismissal due to misconduct, i.e. theft, sexual harassment, harassment, abusing position for personal gain, gross negligence, breaching company’s policies, etc.
  • Dismissal due to poor performance
  • Constructive dismissal claim
  • Forced resignation claim

Complaint at Labour Office

With the amendments to the Employment Act 1955 which came into force on 1.1.2023, the scope of the Act has been widened to cover, with some limitations, any person who has entered into a contract of service, irrespective of his/her wages. 

Thus, employee who is seeking for monetary compensation such as overtime pay, unpaid wages, termination benefit, illegal deduction of salary etc can file a complaint at the Labour Office. 

We can represent your Company to defend those against monetary claim within the scope of law or providing legal opinion on the relevant law on whether your Company has any merit in defending the complaint by your current or former employees.