Section 3 — AKTA ORDINAN BURUH SARAWAK (PINDAAN) 2025

(a)

dalam subseksyen (1)—

(i)

dengan memasukkan selepas takrif “agricultural undertaking” takrif yang berikut:

‘ “apprentice” means any person who has entered into an apprenticeship contract;’;

(ii)

dalam takrif “apprenticeship contract”, dengan menggantikan perkataan “shall not be less than two years” dengan perkataan “shall be for a minimum period of six months and a maximum period of twenty-four months”;

(iii)

dalam takrif “confinement”, dengan menggantikan perkataan “twenty-eight weeks” dengan perkataan

“twenty-two weeks”;

(iv)

dengan memasukkan selepas takrif “confinement”

takrif yang berikut:

‘ “constructional contractor” means any person, firm, corporation or company who or which is established for the purpose of undertaking, either exclusively or in addition to or in conjunction with any other business, any type of constructional work, and who or which is carrying out such constructional work for or on behalf of some other person under a contract entered into by him or them with such other person, and includes his or their heirs, executors, administrators, assignees and successors;’;

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(v)

dalam takrif “contract of service”, dengan menggantikan perkataan “other” dengan perkataan

“employee”;

(vi)

dengan memasukkan selepas takrif “contractor”

takrif yang berikut:

‘ “contractor for labour” means a person who contracts with a principal, contractor or subcontractor to supply the labour required for the execution of the whole or any part of any work which a contractor or subcontractor has contracted to carry out for a principal or contractor, as the case may be;’;

(vii)

dengan menggantikan takrif “Director” dengan takrif yang berikut:

‘ “Director” means the Director of Labour appointed under subsection (1) of section 3

and for the purposes of Part IVa, includes any officer or any suitable person who has been appointed under section 122al;’;

(viii)

dalam takrif “employee”—

(A)

dalam peranggan (a), dengan menggantikan perkataan “Schedule” dengan perkataan

“First Schedule”; dan

(B)

dalam perenggan (b), dengan menggantikan perkataan “of section” dengan perkataan

“or section”;

(ix)

dengan memotong takrif “family”;

(x)

dalam takrif “Minister”, dengan menggantikan perkataan “responsible for labour matters” dengan perkataan “charged with the responsibility for human resources”;

(xi)

dengan menggantikan takrif “overtime” dengan takrif yang berikut:

‘ “overtime” means—

(a)

the number of hours of work carried out in excess of the normal hours of work per day; or

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(b)

if any work is carried out after the spread over period of ten hours, the whole period beginning from the time that such spread over period ends up to the time that the employee ceases work for the day;’;

(xii)

dengan menggantikan takrif “part-time employee”

dengan takrif yang berikut:

‘ “part-time employee” means a person included in the First Schedule whose average hours of work per week as agreed between him and his employer do not exceed seventy per centum of the normal hours of work per week of a full-time employee employed by the same employer in a similar capacity;’;

(xiii)

dengan menggantikan takrif “place of employment”

dengan takrif yang berikut:

‘ “place of employment”, except for section 122h, means—

(a)

any place where work is carried on for an employer by an employee;

(b)

any place declared by the Minister under paragraph (d) of subsection (7); or

(c)

for the purposes of Part IVa, any place specified under paragraph (a) or (b), and includes any place in which an employee is housed by an employer;’;

(xiv)

dengan memotong takrif “recruit”;

(xv)

dengan memasukkan selepas takrif “repatriation”

takrif yang berikut:

‘ “sexual harassment” means any unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, whether verbal, non-verbal, visual, gestural or physical, directed at a person which is offensive or humiliating or is a threat to his well-being, arising out of and in the course of his employment;’;

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(xvi)

dengan memotong takrif “ship”;

(xvii)

dengan memasukkan selepas takrif “ship” yang dipotong takrif yang berikut:

‘ “spread over period of ten hours” means a period of ten consecutive hours to be reckoned from the time of the employee commences work for the day, inclusive of any period or periods of leisure, rest or break within such period of ten consecutive hours;

“State Authority” means the Yang di-Pertua

Negeri of the State of Sarawak;’;

(xviii)

dengan memotong takrif “subcontractor for labour”;

dan

(xix)

dengan memasukkan selepas takrif “underground work” takrif yang berikut:

‘ “vessel” means any type of ship, boat or floating platform used in the maritime environment including any submersible craft;’;

(b)

dalam perenggan (3)(c), dengan memasukkan selepas perkataan “a daily” perkataan “or an hourly”;

(c)

dalam subseksyen (4), dengan memasukkan selepas perkataan “on a daily” perkataan “or an hourly”; dan

(d)

dalam subseksyen (6)—

(i)

dengan memasukkan selepas perkataan “order”

perkataan “published in the Gazette”; dan

(ii)

dengan menggantikan perkataan “Schedule”

dengan perkataan “First Schedule, Second

Schedule or Third Schedule”.

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