Dismissal from employment is the prerogative of the employer. An impending dismissal must be carried out fairly with the affected employee given the right to be heard. When a dismissal has been effected in high-handed manner, it may have real prospect of humiliation and embarrassment to the employee. Besides besmirching his reputation, it can also

This article explores the Shariah Courts criminal jurisdiction, past and present and further, to justify the need to enhance the courts criminal jurisdiction to reflect the prevalent circumstances today.1 Malaysian Court Practice Bulletin Issue 2 of 2017 Civil Procedure PP 11356/01/2013 (031727) SHARIAH COURTS CRIMINAL JURISDICTION OUTDATED: TIME F

This paper discusses the high-handed manner of a dismissal, its impact on the employee and the availability of compensation for non-pecuniary losses under the statutory unfair or unjustifiable dismissal. Reference is made to the law and practice in selected countries namely, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the context of M

The speech recognition system is a front end and a back-end process that receives an audio signal uttered by a speaker and converts it into a text transcription. The speech system can be used in several fields including: therapeutic technology, education, social robotics and computer entertainments. In most cases in control tasks, which is the purp

Like many other religious beliefs, Islam placed high regards to individual's honour and dignity. Guarding chastity and appropriate dressing for the Muslims are guided by their religious beliefs. The criterion of modest dressing for women in the presence of strangers and non-Mahram' is contained in the divine law. It is forbidden that any pe

Occupational stress in the present globalised world is fraught with tremendous concern to the employees and other stakeholders of organisations. Excessive workload or work demand, and stressful deadlines, long working hours, insufficient number of staff, lack of support from co-workers and supervisors, annoying coworkers, angry customers, hazardous

The employment relationship is a fiduciary one where the core obligation is one of loyalty and integrity — the key characteristics an employee should possess, no matter what form of employment he is engaged in (see, Kvaerner Petrominco Engineering Sdn Bhd v Virginia Jaqueline Chan [2007] 1 ILR 494). It includes, the employee’s obligation to act

In the sphere of employment law, in the absence of a statutory provision enabling an employer to make deduction for overpayment by mistake or a 'deduction clause' in the employment contract, there is no automatic mechanism that allows the employer to recover an overpayment through deduction of the amount from the employees next pay A 'd

It will be seen in this article that the Court of Appeal in Malaysia is divided on the issue whether the Derbyshire principle is applicable in this country and thereby raising the issue on certainty of the common law applicable in Malaysia.

يهدف هذا البحث لبيان منهج النبي في إصلاح جار السوء، من خلال الأحاديث الواردة في الاعتناء بحقوق الجار سواء كان صالحًا أم غير صالح، مسلمًا كان أم كافراً، فتأمر بالصبر على جار السوء، والإحسان إلي