An Offer That Sounds Too Good Imagine a scheme where the government hands you up to RM200 a month for every entry-level employee, and up […]
Late Salary Is Wage Theft
The Breach Everyone Has Agreed to Call Cash Flow In a lot of Malaysian companies, payday is a range, not a date. Salaries land “by […]
What Lindung 24 Jam Covers
The Coverage Gap Lindung 24 Jam Closes Most employees assume PERKESO protects them around the clock. It never did. For decades, coverage ended at the […]
Zakat Is a Tax Rebate. Most Payrolls Treat It as a Deduction
Zakat Is Not the Deduction It Looks Like Zakat appears on the payslip as a deduction, sitting in the same column as EPF, SOCSO, and […]
Lindung 24 Jam Is Now Voluntary. What Payroll Should Do Next
On 8 July 2026, the Cabinet decided that contributions to PERKESO’s Lindung 24 Jam scheme, officially the Skim Kemalangan Bukan Bencana Kerja (SKBBK), will no […]
The Tax Form Most New Joiners Should Submit, But Don’t
The Form Nobody Mentions at Onboarding Aisyah joined her new company in July, halfway through the tax year. The HR team handed her the standard […]
Bonus Month Is the Payroll Everyone Gets Wrong
Bonus month is the one payroll cycle employees look forward to. The figure lands in the bank, the WhatsApp messages go around, the office mood […]
Lindung 24 Jam Starts 1 June. The Grace Period Is the Trap
The six-month grace period that came with Lindung 24 Jam is being read across Malaysian HR offices as breathing room. It is not. PERKESO is […]
Half the Deductions in Your Payroll System Are Probably Illegal
Walk into any HR or finance department in Malaysia and you will find a deduction field that nobody questions. Staff loan. Salary advance. Uniform. Training […]