Section 57
Section 57
Subject to any express provision to the contrary contained therein, a contract to employ and to serve as a domestic employee may be terminated either by the person employing the domestic employee or by the domestic employee giving the other party fourteen days’ notice of his intention to terminate the contract, or by the paying of an indemnity equivalent to the wages which the domestic employee would have earned in fourteen days:
Provided that any such contract may be terminated by either party without notice and without the paying of an indemnity on the ground of conduct by the other party inconsistent with the terms and conditions of the contract.
Employment of foreign domestic employee 57a. (1) An employer who employs a foreign domestic employee shall, within thirty days of the employment, inform the Director
General of such employment in a manner as may be determined by the Director General.
(2)
An employer who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding
*fifty thousand ringgit.
Duty to inform Director General of termination of service of foreign domestic employee 57b. (1) If the service of a foreign domestic employee is terminated—
(a)
by the employer;
(b)
by the foreign domestic employee;
*NOTE—Previously “ten thousand ringgit”—see paragraph 18(b) of the Employment (Amendment)
Act 2022 [Act A1651].
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(c)
upon the expiry of the employment pass issued by the
Immigration Department of Malaysia to the foreign domestic employee; or
(d)
by the repatriation or deportation of the foreign domestic employee, the employer shall, within thirty days of the termination of service, inform the Director General of the termination in a manner as may be determined by the Director General.
(2)
For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b), the termination of service by a foreign domestic employee includes the act of the foreign domestic employee absconding from his place of employment.
(3)
An employer who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding
*fifty thousand ringgit.