The employer desk
For employers
Employment risk is a process problem before it is a legal one. The employer desk builds the processes, papers the decisions, and defends the ones that are challenged anyway.
The pattern
Why files are lost before the hearing
Employers rarely lose in the Industrial Court because the misconduct wasn't real or the redundancy wasn't genuine. They lose because the decision was made on Friday and papered on Monday — the inquiry skipped, the selection matrix reconstructed, the warning letters drafted after the fact. Everything on this desk exists to reverse that order: advice before decision, paper before action, process before letter.
The retainer is how most clients consume us — an employment lawyer inside HR's working week, at less than the cost of one mishandled dismissal. The rest handles what a retainer cannot: inquiries that need chairing, exercises that need planning, references that need defending.
What the desk covers
Misconduct & domestic inquiry
Most dismissals lost in the Industrial Court are lost on process.
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Restructuring & retrenchment
Reorganising the business is management's prerogative.
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Contracts, policies & handbooks
Every dispute on the employer desk eventually opens the same two documents: the contract and the handbook.
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Unions & collective bargaining
A union across the table changes the tempo of everything — discipline, restructuring, pay reviews.
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Industrial Court defence
By the time a reference reaches the Industrial Court, the facts are fixed — what remains open is how well they are proven.
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Employer retainers
The cheapest employment advice is the advice taken before the letter is sent.
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Call before the letter goes out.
Fifteen minutes of advice before a termination decision is worth more than fifteen months of defence after it. Assessments are RM 480, retainers from RM 2,800 a month.
Mon–Fri 9am–6pm · Sat morning by appointment · +60 3-2202 4188