What are the hours of work under the law?

All employment issues are matters of law. Like many codes of employment law, Malaysian law contains such features as the eight-hour day and 40-hour week, averaged over three weeks to include overtime. The average work week (averaged over three weeks) cannot exceed 48 hours, and never more than 10 hours a day on average. No one can be required to work more than 12 hours in a day.

Source: Malaysian Labor Law Act

An employee shall not be required under his contract of service to work -

1. more than 5 consecutive hours without a period of leisure of not less than 30 minutes' duration.
2. more than 8 hours in one day.
3. in excess of a spread over a period of 10 hours in one day.
4. more than 48 hours in one week with certain provisos.

Source: PNMB-LawNet

Regards, Joey

p.s: Welcome to Malaysia a.k.a Bolehland

This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Feb 10 2011, 09:54 AM

The excerpt which I had posted is good enough for your understanding...Anyway, here's the links:

1. http://www.ehow.com/about_6643653_malaysia...or-law-act.html
2. http://www.lawnet.com.my/lawnetpublic/Lega...69/Default.aspx

Wait till you see those doctors doing their housemanships...

Regards, Joey

It is exclusive of meal breaks.

Regards, Joey