INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Appeal
13 cases · September 2024 to November 2025
Case Volume by Year
5 24
8 25
2024–2025
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Industrial Court — Dismissal — Negligent discharge of duties — Failure to comply with Standard Operating Procedures — Whether negligent conduct proven — Finding of facts 1 Industrial Court — Forced resignation or voluntary resignation — Principle of forced resignation — Whether cause existing at time of tendering letter of resignation — Principles of appellate intervention — Analysis of evidence by the Industrial Court — Whether appellate intervention justified 1 Industrial Court — Domestic inquiry — Appeal Committee — Demotion — Constructive dismissal — Reason for constructive dismissal at the time of walking out of the employment — Whether other reasons can be considered — Whether pre-requisites of constructive dismissal proven — Breach of natural justice at domestic inquiry and appeal committee hearing — Whether a fundamental breach of the contract 1 Industrial Court — Forced resignation or voluntary resignation — Principle of forced resignation — Intention to resign — Request to resign — Whether there was a negotiation of terms to resign — Whether cause existing at the time of tendering the letter of resignation — Poor performance — Sabotage 1 Industrial Court — Probationer — Unsatisfactory performance — Termination — m Whether termination with or without just cause and excuse Findings of fact — Plainly wrong test — Appellate interference 1 Industrial Court — Dismissal — Negligent discharge of duties — Failure to comply with Standard Operating Procedures — Whether negligent conduct proven — Whether evidence at domestic inquiry relevant — Mala fide and victimisation 1 Industrial Court — Misconduct — Theft — Whether theft proven — Findings of fact — Plainly wrong test — Appellate interference — Principles. 1 Dismissal — Industrial Court — Whether claimant 'workman' within meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. Test — Control Test — Integrated test — Whether test proven 1 Dismissal — Industrial Court — Constructive dismissal — Findings of facts — Appellate function — Test to warrant interference — Cumulative effect — Last straw principle 1 Dismissal — Industrial Court — Misconduct — Whether proven — Double jeopardy — Duty of Industrial Court under section 20(3) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. 1 Dismissal — Industrial Court — Misconduct — Whether proven — Duty of Industrial Court under section 20(3) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967 . 1 section 33C of the Industrial Relations Act 1967 — Dismissal — Industrial Court — Whether Industrial Court carried out function — Function to determine whether the dismissal was with or without just cause and excuse — Remitted to Industrial Court to determine whether dismissal with or without just cause and excuse. 1 Dismissal — Industrial Court — Whether Industrial Court carried out function — Function to determine whether the dismissal was with or without just cause and excuse — Appellate intervention — Substitution of misconduct under Company Handbook to an offence under Penal Code 1
Industrial Court — Dismissal — Negligent discharge of duties — Failure to comply with Standard Operating Procedures — Whether negligent conduct proven — Finding of facts 1 case
Industrial Court — Forced resignation or voluntary resignation — Principle of forced resignation — Whether cause existing at time of tendering letter of resignation — Principles of appellate intervention — Analysis of evidence by the Industrial Court — Whether appellate intervention justified 1 case
Industrial Court — Domestic inquiry — Appeal Committee — Demotion — Constructive dismissal — Reason for constructive dismissal at the time of walking out of the employment — Whether other reasons can be considered — Whether pre-requisites of constructive dismissal proven — Breach of natural justice at domestic inquiry and appeal committee hearing — Whether a fundamental breach of the contract 1 case
Industrial Court — Forced resignation or voluntary resignation — Principle of forced resignation — Intention to resign — Request to resign — Whether there was a negotiation of terms to resign — Whether cause existing at the time of tendering the letter of resignation — Poor performance — Sabotage 1 case
Industrial Court — Probationer — Unsatisfactory performance — Termination — m Whether termination with or without just cause and excuse Findings of fact — Plainly wrong test — Appellate interference 1 case
Industrial Court — Dismissal — Negligent discharge of duties — Failure to comply with Standard Operating Procedures — Whether negligent conduct proven — Whether evidence at domestic inquiry relevant — Mala fide and victimisation 1 case
Industrial Court — Misconduct — Theft — Whether theft proven — Findings of fact — Plainly wrong test — Appellate interference — Principles. 1 case
Dismissal — Industrial Court — Whether claimant 'workman' within meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. Test — Control Test — Integrated test — Whether test proven 1 case
Dismissal — Industrial Court — Constructive dismissal — Findings of facts — Appellate function — Test to warrant interference — Cumulative effect — Last straw principle 1 case
Dismissal — Industrial Court — Misconduct — Whether proven — Double jeopardy — Duty of Industrial Court under section 20(3) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. 1 case
Dismissal — Industrial Court — Misconduct — Whether proven — Duty of Industrial Court under section 20(3) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967 . 1 case
section 33C of the Industrial Relations Act 1967 — Dismissal — Industrial Court — Whether Industrial Court carried out function — Function to determine whether the dismissal was with or without just cause and excuse — Remitted to Industrial Court to determine whether dismissal with or without just cause and excuse. 1 case
Dismissal — Industrial Court — Whether Industrial Court carried out function — Function to determine whether the dismissal was with or without just cause and excuse — Appellate intervention — Substitution of misconduct under Company Handbook to an offence under Penal Code 1 case
Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Top Judges
Cases
wa-16a-56-05-2024
SYARIKAT PERUMAHAN NEGARA BERHAD v SHAMSUL ARIFIN BIN ABDUL HAMID
2 November 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-144-12-2024
CAPITAL INTERTRADE SDN. BHD. v KOMATHI A/P RATANASAMY
28 September 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-65-06-2024
Siti Asmahan Binti Mohd Ali v Pendidikan Industri YS Sdn Bhd
16 July 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-126-10-2024
WULLERSDORF RESOURCES SDN. BHD. v KALAI VANI A/P M GOVINDASAMY NAIDU
1 July 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-104-08-2024
ASIA PACIFIC INVESTMENT BANK LTD v NEO ENG ENG
25 June 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-64-05-2024
SYARIKAT PERUMAHAN NEGARA BERHAD v AZMIL BIN ABU SAMAH
23 March 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-74-12-2023
LF LOGISTICS SERVICES (M) SDN. BHD v MATTHEW A/L FRANCIS
19 March 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-4-01-2024
ABDUL SALAM BIN AHMAD v HANG NEE ENTERPRISE SDN BHD
9 March 2025
MYHC
wa-16a-60-05-2024
TAN JIN HUI v LAFARGE CONCRETE ( MALAYSIA ) SDN BHD
15 October 2024
MYHC
wa-16a-5-01-2024
KOPERASI PEGAWAI-PEGAWAI MELAYU MALAYSIA BERHAD (MOCCIS) v HASMIZAWANI BINTI MOHAMMAD
8 October 2024
MYHC
wa-16a-6-01-2024
KOPERASI PEGAWAI-PEGAWAI MELAYU MALAYSIA BERHAD (MOCCIS) v NABILLAH BINTI ZULKIFLY
8 October 2024
MYHC
wa-16a-36-07-2023
ASIAONE EXPRESS (M) SDN. BHD. v TEH CHUI LING
22 September 2024
MYHC
wa-16a-25-02-2024
Kansai Paint Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd v Lee Ee Chai
1 September 2024
MYHC