Malaysian labour law map: statute, regulator, portal, scope

Nobody publishes this, which is odd, because the first question in any Malaysian compliance problem is not what does the law say — it is whose law is it and where do I file. Answering that wrongly costs weeks: a s.20 representation lodged with the wrong department does not stop the 60-day clock, and an approval sought from JTKSM for a Sabah employee is not an approval at all.

Every URL below was checked. Where a commonly cited address does not resolve, that is noted, because those are the ones that waste an afternoon.

Labour standards

Statute	Act	Authority	Portal	Governs
Employment Act 1955	265	Department of Labour Peninsular Malaysia (JTKSM) — jtksm.gov.my	Complaints via SisPAA, mohr.spab.gov.my	Hours, leave, wages, harassment, FWA, forced labour — peninsula only
Labour Ordinance (Sabah)	Sabah Cap. 67	Labour Department Sabah (JTK Sabah) — jtksabah.gov.my	eNORES, enores.jtksabah.gov.my	The same ground, in Sabah
Labour Ordinance (Sarawak)	Sarawak Cap. 76	Labour Department Sarawak (JTK Sarawak) — jtkswk.gov.my	ALIANCE, aliance.sarawak.gov.my	The same ground, in Sarawak
Children and Young Persons (Employment) Act 1966	350	JTKSM / JTK Sabah / JTK Sarawak	No dedicated portal	Employment of minors
Employees’ Minimum Standards of Housing, Accommodations and Amenities Act 1990	446	JTKSM and the state departments	Sistem Permohonan Perakuan Penginapan, akta446.mohr.gov.my	Employer-provided accommodation and the Certificate for Accommodation
National Wages Consultative Council Act 2011	732	Council secretariat at MOHR; enforced by the labour departments	gajiminimum.mohr.gov.my	The minimum wage, set by gazetted Order

The commonly cited minimumwages.mohr.gov.my does not resolve. The live minimum-wage site is gajiminimum.mohr.gov.my.

Disputes and unions

Statute	Act	Authority	Portal	Governs
Industrial Relations Act 1967	177	Department of Industrial Relations (JPPM) — jpp.mohr.gov.my	IRIS, iris.mohr.gov.my	Unfair dismissal representations, conciliation, trade disputes
—	—	Industrial Court of Malaysia — mp.gov.my	e-Filing mp.gov.my/ef, e-Mention eic.gov.my/eicx	Adjudication of references and awards
Trade Unions Act 1959	262	Department of Trade Union Affairs (JHEKS) — jheks.mohr.gov.my	e-TUIS, e-tuis.jheks.gov.my	Union registration and administration

jppm.mohr.gov.my does not resolve. JPPM’s actual domain drops the second M. It is the single most repeated broken reference in Malaysian HR writing.

Safety and health

Statute	Act	Authority	Portal	Governs
Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994	514	Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH / JKKP) — dosh.gov.my	MyKKP, mykkp.dosh.gov.my; APIS, apis.dosh.gov.my	Employer safety duties, OSH coordinators, accident notification

Note www.dosh.gov.my does not resolve — use the apex domain.

Contributions

Statute	Act	Authority	Portal	Governs
Employees Provident Fund Act 1991	452	EPF / KWSP — kwsp.gov.my	i-Akaun (Employer), secure.kwsp.gov.my	Retirement contributions
Employees’ Social Security Act 1969	4	PERKESO — perkeso.gov.my	ASSIST Portal, assist.perkeso.gov.my	Employment injury and invalidity
Employment Insurance System Act 2017	800	PERKESO	ASSIST; claims via LINDUNG KERJAYA	Retrenchment income replacement
Self-Employment Social Security Act 2017	789	PERKESO	ASSIST / SKSPS registration	Self-employed and gig worker cover
Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad Act 2001	612	HRD Corp — hrdcorp.gov.my	eTRiS, etris.hrdcorp.gov.my	Training levy and claims

kwsp.gov.my returns 403 to automated clients. That is bot protection, not an outage.

The two newest, and the awkward ones

Statute	Act	Authority	Portal	Governs
Gig Workers Act 2025	872	SEGiM; conciliation via JPPM; social security via PERKESO; enforcement support from JTKSM and DOSH	eAduan Gig, eaduan-gig.mohr.gov.my; Act microsite mohr.gov.my/aktapekerjagig2025	Service agreements, gig worker rights, the Gig Workers Tribunal, platform SOCSO deduction
Anti-Sexual Harassment Act 2022	840	Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (KPWKM) — kpwkm.gov.my	TAGS portal, tags.kpwkm.gov.my/portal	Complaints of sexual harassment by any person, employment or not

Two things to hold loosely here. The Gig Economy Commission (SEGiM) is not established by Act 872 — the Act creates a Tribunal and a Consultative Council — and no standalone SEGiM domain could be found. Treat statements about its powers as unconfirmed until the instrument creating it surfaces.

And the harassment tribunal is TAGS — Tribunal bagi Antigangguan Seksual. The abbreviation TTGS, which appears in some write-ups, points at a domain that does not exist. It also sits under a different ministry from everything else on this page, which is why a harassment matter can be running at KPWKM and at JTKSM simultaneously without either knowing.

Where statutes actually live

Two repositories, both official: the Attorney General’s Chambers Federal Legislation Portal at lom.agc.gov.my, and the ministry’s own eakta.mohr.gov.my. LOM serves the older Acts cleanly at a predictable path; several of the newer ones — 612, 732, 789, 800, 840, 872 — currently error there and have to be sourced from the administering agency instead.

One naming note that trips people up: the Ministry of Human Resources rebranded to KESUMA, but the rebrand was naming only. kesuma.gov.my does not resolve. mohr.gov.my remains canonical, and every subdomain in the tables above hangs off it.

Common mistakes

Filing a s.20 representation with JTKSM. Unfair dismissal goes to JPPM, through IRIS. JTKSM handles labour standards. The 60-day window does not pause while a misfiled representation sits in the wrong inbox.

Using Act 265 for a Sabah or Sarawak employee. Different statute, different department, different portal.

Citing Act 446 by the wrong name. It is the Employees’ Minimum Standards of Housing, Accommodations and Amenities Act 1990.

Assuming one ministry. Harassment tribunal matters sit with KPWKM; everything else on this page sits with MOHR.

Assuming SEGiM has statutory powers under Act 872. It does not appear in the Act.

What’s next

Pin the portal column to your compliance calendar, not the statute column — the statute tells you what is owed, the portal is where the deadline is actually met. Then read the Employment Act guide for the peninsula, and the Sabah and Sarawak page if any of your headcount sits across the sea.