Govt to amend Sabah labour law, streamline benefits with peninsula

The Sabah Labour Ordinance (Chapter 67) will be amended so that employees in the state get the same benefits as workers in Peninsular Malaysia, said Deputy Human Resource Minister Mustapha Sakmud.

His response follows the case of a man from Sabah whose wife died after giving birth.

In addition to claiming his employer only gave paternity leave of two days, the man was informed that the provision of seven days of paternity leave for fathers in the Peninsula has not yet been enforced in Sabah...