The chambers

Six lawyers, one discipline.

Everyone here does employment and industrial relations work — nothing else. Profiles below state each lawyer's call year and desk; conflict checks run before any file opens.

Faiza binti Kamaruddin

Managing Partner · Employee desk

LL.B (Hons), International Islamic University Malaysia
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2003)

Focus: Unfair and constructive dismissal, executive exits, workplace harassment

Faiza leads the firm’s employee desk and has spent over twenty years acting for people whose working lives have reached a legal edge — from operators walked out of factories without an inquiry to C-suite officers negotiating the terms of their departure.

She began her career in the dispute resolution team of a large Kuala Lumpur practice before co-founding Faiza Loke & Sivam in 2011 to focus entirely on employment and industrial relations work. She has conducted representations under section 20 of the Industrial Relations Act 1967 at every stage — conciliation at the Department of Industrial Relations, references before the Industrial Court, and judicial review in the High Court.

Faiza appears regularly at Malaysian Employers Federation seminars and Bar Council industrial law events, usually to say the same thing to both rooms: most dismissals fail on process, not merits. She advises in Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Loke Wei Sheng

Partner · Employer desk

LL.B (Hons), University of London; CLP
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2007)

Focus: Restructuring and retrenchment exercises, employment contracts and handbooks, retainers

Wei Sheng leads the employer desk. Before returning to private practice he spent six years as in-house employment counsel to a listed plantation group, running everything from union negotiations across four states to the retrenchment exercise that followed a refinery closure — experience that shows in advice that reads like an operations manual rather than a legal opinion.

His practice covers the paperwork that keeps employers out of the Industrial Court: contracts of service, employee handbooks, disciplinary procedures, performance improvement plans and separation schemes. When an exercise is unavoidable, he plans it — selection criteria, Borang PK notifications, staged communications — so that the file defends itself.

Wei Sheng advises in English, Mandarin and Bahasa Malaysia, and holds the firm’s retainer relationships with manufacturers, logistics groups and technology employers.

Sivam a/l Krishnan

Partner, Head of Advocacy · Industrial Court advocacy

LL.B (Hons), University of Malaya
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2005)

Focus: Industrial Court trials, union recognition and collective agreement disputes, trade disputes

Sivam has appeared in more than two hundred Industrial Court matters — unfair dismissal references, non-compliance proceedings, collective agreement interpretation disputes and recognition claims — acting for claimants in some and companies in others. He joined the firm as name partner in 2014 after a decade in industrial relations practice.

He is the firm’s trial lawyer. Where Faiza and Wei Sheng try to resolve matters before they harden, Sivam prepares every brief on the assumption it will be fought: witness statements that survive cross-examination, contemporaneous documents marshalled early, and submissions that give the Chairman a clean path to the award sought.

Sivam conducts hearings in English and Bahasa Malaysia and client conferences in Tamil. He sits on the firm’s domestic inquiry panel as an independent chairman for unrelated employers.

Chow Mei Lin

Senior Associate · Employer desk

LL.B (Hons), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2014)

Focus: Domestic inquiries, performance management, medical boarding-out

Mei Lin runs the firm’s domestic inquiry practice — drafting charges, advising on suspension under section 14 of the Employment Act 1955, preparing inquiry bundles and sitting as panel member or prosecuting officer for employers who need the process done properly the first time.

She also designs performance improvement plans that are genuinely capable of being passed — the Industrial Court’s consistent complaint about PIPs — and advises on the medical boarding-out of employees no longer fit for service, an area where compassion and compliance have to move together.

Mei Lin advises in Mandarin, English and Bahasa Malaysia, and delivers the firm’s supervisor training on misconduct documentation.

Priya Manogaran

Associate · Employee desk

LL.B (Hons), Multimedia University
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2018)

Focus: Case assessments, VSS/MSS reviews, Labour Court claims

Priya conducts most of the firm’s first case assessments — the ninety-minute session where a dismissed employee finds out, in plain language, whether there is a case, what it is worth, and what the sixty-day deadline means for them. She has reviewed several hundred separation scheme offers and has a reliable eye for the clause that shouldn’t be there.

She appears in the Labour Court on wage, termination benefit and maternity protection claims under the Employment Act 1955, and assists Faiza on section 20 representations and Industrial Court references.

Priya advises in Tamil, English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Adam Iskandar bin Roslan

Associate · Both desks

LL.B (Hons), Universiti Teknologi MARA
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2020)

Focus: Research and drafting, section 20 representations, JTK and statutory compliance

Adam is the firm’s research and drafting engine. He prepares section 20 representations, statements of case and rejoinders, and keeps the firm’s statutory trackers current — amendment orders, minimum wage revisions, and the steady stream of Industrial Court awards that shift the ground under both desks.

He also handles Jabatan Tenaga Kerja compliance queries for employer clients: working hours, overtime computation, and the Employment Act’s First Schedule thresholds that decide who is entitled to what.

Adam advises in Bahasa Malaysia and English.

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