Labor

We Against The Unfair Thing !

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Workers' Song, Brochure and Newspaper

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We Use Banner To Tell You What We Want

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Do We Know It ?

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Hak Perumahan , Hak Asasi Pekerja !

Start Our Journey

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Starting point

Along this road ...

Across the road ...

Signboard

BP

Lorong Hang Jebat

Destination

VIP Coming

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PKR

SUARAM

We Want Our Rights

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We are innocent , don't catch us !

We Stay In A Peaceful Country . . .

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Because policemen at everywhere . . .

People Getting More

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Different Clothes Has Different Meaning

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They Bring Weapons, We Bring Nothing

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"Red Cap Army" are coming !!

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Special Branch People

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Arrival of Dataran Merdeka on 1st May 2008

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Dataran Merdeka

people from Johor

bank

river

How to Calculate Overtime Salary

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You are covered under the Malaysia’s Employment Act 1955 if your monthly salary is RM1500 or below.

The act governs many provisions of the employment including probationary period, breach of contract, termination, salary or wages, leave, retrenchment and so on.

According to the law, employees who work beyond the ‘normal hours of work’ is considered working overtime and is entitled for overtime salary payment. So if you’re an Admin Assistant with salary RM1400 often finding yourself staying beyond 6pm in the office by your boss’ request, know that your employer has broken the law if they do not pay you overtime for your extra hard work.

For ease of explanation and simplification, calculations and rate shown in the following assumes the employee works 8 hours per day and is paid monthly (not on daily rate, weekly or others). The normal hours of work is defined as:

- Maximum or no longer than 5 consecutive hours with a period of rest not less than 30 minutes
- Not more than 8 hours of working in one day.And for a continuous 8 hours of work, there should be a minimum of 45 minutes of (paid) rest - the fact that you have lunch hour is part of the law, and not just letting you responding to nature’s call
- Not more than 48 hours in a week

First, to calculate the overtime salary and payment, you must know your daily rate and hourly rate first. The daily rate payment is defined as (monthly paid/no of working days) and your hourly rate is (daily rate/normal hours of work). For example, if your salary is RM1200 and you work for 26 days - 8 hours per day, your daily rate = RM1200/26 = RM46.15 and your hourly rate = RM46.15/8 = RM5.80.

Now, the following table illustrates the rate of the salary payment for overtime work. Again here, please note that you need to be covered under the Employment Act to be entitled to this overtime, and the assumption that you are an employee receiving monthly rate payment is still applicable.

Normal working days : 1.5 x hourly rate

Rest days : 4 hours or less:Half day’s wage at normal rate
More than 4 hours:1 day’s wage at normal rate
Excess of 8 hours:Not less than 2 x hourly rate

Holidays : 8 hours or less:2 day’s wage at normal rate
Excess of 8 hours:3 x hourly rate

Note:

Rest day is a day in a week where employee does not work. Normally, it falls on Sunday, but it can also be in rotational form between the employees. Holiday is gazetted Public state and national holidays.

Labour Day or Hari Buruh

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Every 1st of May of the year, we observe Labour Day or Hari Buruh. The day is also gazetted as the national or federal Public Holiday, and that includes this year, 2008.

But how many of us here know what exactly is this Labour Day, why we’re observing it, how it first happened, and where it happened? Nothing can delight us more than having a day off, isn’t it, regardless of the reason behind it.

Perhaps, after reading this, we would be able to appreciate that some of the HR regulations today were the results of some of older generation fighting for a cause more than 100 years ago.

Actually there are 2 different versions of Labour Day. First is the Labour Day which we and most other countries observe on 1st of May.

The second one, termed as the Labor Day, is a federal holiday for United States, and takes place on the first Monday of September. Here we are more interested in the former.

The Labour Day celebration originated from Australia, when a movement called Stonemasons, which advocated 8 hours of work, 8 hours of recreation and 8 hours of rest for workers, rose to prominence during the 1850s.

During this time, workers were required to work for 10 to 12 hours per day, six days per work. The movement wanted an 8 hour work per day instead, without any drop in salary.

Even though the 8 hour movement was earlier seen as a success in New Zealand, the first public celebration was held in Melbourne, when groups of workers abandoned their work and marched in a parade towards the Australian Parliament House.

The 8 hour celebration was eventually translated into what we know as Labour Day - a day of commemoration and appreciation of labors, workers and the unions. Most countries celebrate Labour Day on 1st of May, with a number of exceptions.

In Australia itself, the dates for Labour Day observance vary considerably and is decided by state and constituency. Canada celebrated on the same day with the US - first Monday of every September, while in New Zealand, it falls on fourth Monday on every October.

Today, the Malaysia Employment Act 1955 stated that workers should never be allowed to work more than 8 hours without a break in between. Guess now we know where this 8 hours come from?

1st of May

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Labour Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers' Day.

The celebration of Labour Day has its origins in the eight hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.