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		<title>Handling employee dismissals properly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by Marcus van Geyzel In this series, we have addressed the general employment law backdrop in Malaysia, legal issues when hiring employees, and how to ensure good employee management. This article will discuss the end of the employment life cycle – the termination of the employment contract, or dismissal. Malaysian law does not distinguish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=141&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ensuring proper employee management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by Marcus van Geyzel This is the second in a three-part series on employment law. Flowing on from the introduction and the first part – which addressed the legal considerations employers should bear in mind when hiring employees – this part considers the issues involved in managing employees. Over the course of an employment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=136&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal issues when hiring employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by Marcus van Geyzel Following last week’s introduction, this is the first in a three-part weekly series on employment law. This week’s focus is on hiring employees. Many employers see the key to optimizing productivity and success as having employees with the appropriate qualifications, personality, and ultimately the practical application to get the job [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=131&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crying Out For Brave Leaders To Free Malaysia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article was first published on LoyarBurok on 14 September 2010] The Merdeka season is always a time of reflection for many Malaysians. Many put aside the year-long cynicism and negativity to drum up some patriotic fervour and genuine love for the country, though this seems to be less true with every passing year. Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=121&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What employers need to know about employment law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by Marcus van Geyzel The Malaysian law governing industrial relations – or employment law – has a reputation, in general, for being overly-friendly to employees. As a lawyer, I am most often approached for advice by employers when things have gone pear-shaped, meaning that they want advice on how to dismiss an employee, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=115&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tactics, goals, morality and the beautiful game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marcus van Geyzel After a month of buzz, drama and incessant football, Spain are world champions. This World Cup has been the most widely-covered in history, not only because of satellite, internet and mobile-device match broadcasts, but also internet websites, blogs and tweets. Sifting through all the noise (and I’m not referring to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=63&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why your company needs a document retention policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by Marcus van Geyzel The Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC) issued a press release on 15 June 2010 to sternly remind directors and principal officers of public listed companies (PLCs) of their duties in relation to the retention of documents and records, and the severe consequences of destroying or causing the loss of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=60&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plain language and financial products</title>
		<link>http://vangeyzel.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/plain-language-and-financial-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 02:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by Marcus van Geyzel The financial scandals over the past couple of years have cast the banking sector in a negative light. Amidst the debates on complex derivates, collaterised debt obligations and other exotic investment products exists a very clear bottom line — people have been cheated of their money. At the very heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=53&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for virtual signings of contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by MARCUS VAN GEYZEL Complex corporate and commercial transactions present headaches to the parties and their legal advisers in terms of the logistics of arranging the execution of the myriad documents involved. This is even more pronounced in transactions involving a large number of parties, or multinational signatories executing documents across different time zones. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=46&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The regulation of whistleblowing</title>
		<link>http://vangeyzel.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/the-regulation-of-whistleblowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNSEL by MARCUS VAN GEYZEL One of the more anticipated developments in the law this year is the expected introduction of the Whistleblower Act. The implementation of specific whistleblowing legislation in Malaysia is nothing new, having been discussed for a number of years. However, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s announcement of the formulation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vangeyzel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13242647&amp;post=49&amp;subd=vangeyzel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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