LETTER | Discrimination laws on employment should be preventive

LETTER | The Association for Community and Dialogue (ACID) welcomes the proposed amendments to the Employment Act 1955 (EA 55), which was tabled for the first reading at the Dewan Rakyat last October, and the second reading is expected from Dec 16 to 18.

While we welcome such initiative of the Government to meet International standards of labour law, we are quite concerned that issues related to a new Section 69F in respect of discrimination in employment. The proposed section 1 states:

"The director-general may inquire into and decide any dispute between an employee and his employer...