Employment Relationship - published by MEF

This is a hard cover book (usually meaning it's expensive. This book costs RM200.00) on employment relationship was published by the MEF (Malaysian Employer Federation), a body representing the employers in our country. Apart from the lawyers specializing in industrial relations law, the other parties well-versed in employment issues are the labour officers (from the Labour Department), the industrial relations officers (from the Industrial Relations Department), the officers at the MEF, the union officers dealing with such matters and some of the human resource personnel hired by the private companies. I said some, simply because there are many personnel officers who are good at doing payrolls and computation of leave or overtime payments, mainly dealing with the administrative aspects of the work but detached from the more serious issues of the human resources of the company.

Anyway, this book deals with the legal aspects of employment in our country. It deals with the contractual relationship between the employer and the employees. It deals extensively with topics like the different kinds of employment contract, the different types of leave available to the employee according to our employment-related legislations, issues on termination of employment and most of the common questions that employers and employees would ask.

It's a good read for an employer if you need to know more about what you can do and what you can't do in the course of employing a worker, whether he's acting within the law For the employee, he will know what his rights are.

But of course, many of the laws need to be interpreted correctly and this is often a cause for disharmony in industrial relations.

Everyone of is bound to be an employer or an employee at some point of this life. That makes a book like this one relevant.