This paper discusses the concept of workplace misconduct and the requirement of a domestic or due inquiry to establish the alleged act and with reference to the practice in Malaysia. The issues considered herein are as follows: (a) whether the disciplinary or domestic inquiry is essential in an impending dismissal for alleged gross misconduct; and

Any violation of the employer’s rules on safety and health is considered a misconduct that would entail disciplinary action. The following acts or conducts of an employee which may compromise the health and safety of others at the workplace are discussed: (a) threats, intimidation and violence; (b) sexual harassment; (c) smoking at restricted or

The clouds computing comprises of information inquiry benefits that is versatile and adaptable in costing. Cloud purchasers ordinarily put away secret or fragile information that required to be sheltered and verified. Accordingly, delicate information is encoded for security and classification. A few contemplates have proposed Advanced Encryption S

Excessive workload or work demands, stressful deadlines, long working hours, insufficient number of staff, lack of support from co-workers and supervisors, annoying co-workers, dissatisfied customers, hazardous working conditions, job uncertainty and hostile work environment are, among others, some of the commonly known stressors that contribute to

The technology in the courtrooms has brought much ease to the judges and the parties. Unlike the taking of notes of evidence manually which is a tedious job that can take countless hours of toil, the electronic gadget recording or the CRT have allowed speedy disposal of court cases. Instead of spending time writing notes of evidence in verbatim, th

The requirement of due process before the termination of a probationer is discussed in this article with special reference to the recent Court of Appeal’s decision in Bennett Subash Peter v. Bon Ton Sdn Bhd (Bon Ton Resort Langkawi),3 where it was held, inter alia, that our industrial jurisprudence does not permit ‘termination simpliciter or ar

This article addresses on the requirements of establishing just cause or excuse before terminating the employment relationship. In relation to the above, the recent Court of Appeal’s decision in Omar bin Othman v Kulim Advanced Technologies Sdn Bhd (previously known as KTPC Technologies Sdn Bhd), is discussed where the High Court held inter alia,

The issue that forms the basis of this article is whether the costs incurred by either party in bringing or defending their claims for unfair dismissal would be recoverable.1 Malaysian Court Practice BulletinIssue 4 of 2019 Civil Procedure PP 11356/01/2013 (031727) POWER OF INDUSTRIAL COURT TO AWARD COSTS IN CLAIMS FOR DISMISSAL WITHOUT JUST CAUSE

This paper looks into profit-sale (murābaḥah), a nominal sale contract in Islam, in search for Shari'ah objectives embedded in the corpus and in the terms and conditions of the contract. In light of these objectives, applications of the profit-sale contract as a financing tool by the Islamic Finance Institutions (IFIs) are examined. The stud

At the current time, finding an alternative computing device with extreme computation power is the main concern of the research community. Therefore, building a computer device able to execute extremely difficult calculations in a short period of time is required. Presently, the massively parallel computer (MPC) systems are considered the highest c