IT engineer dismissed by Sunshine Bread awarded RM343,000

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The Industrial Court said the employer should not have rejected the claimant’s application for unpaid leave.   Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/08/23/it-engineer-dismissed-by-sunshine-bread-awarded-rm343000/  Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2024/08/23/jurutera-it-dibuang-kerja-dapat-pampasan-lebih-rm342000/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #ITEngineer #SunshineBread #WrongfulDismissal #IndustrialCourt

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00:00IT engineer Tan Seng Kok was awarded RM342,900 for wrongful dismissal after the industrial

00:11court ruled his failure to return to work following a prolonged COVID-19 recovery was

00:17not a breach of contract.

00:19The court said Sunshine Bread's Sundar Berhad acted with pre-planned malice and made life

00:25difficult for Tan before terminating his services.

00:29On June 30, 2021, Tan was admitted to a quarantine center as a Category 5 COVID-19 patient, leading

00:36to 183 days of hospitalization, medical, annual and no-pay leave, which ended on April 26,

00:452022.

00:46Tan was certified fit to work on April 4 and instructed to return on April 27, but he requested

00:52additional unpaid leave on April 26 due to ongoing rehabilitation.

00:58The company terminated his employment on April 28 after he did not return, later rejecting

01:04his leave request as unreasonable and unsubstantiated.

01:09Eswari Mari, the court chairman, described the leave rejection letter as an apparent

01:13afterthought issued post-termination and found that the company had planned to end Tan's

01:18services earlier.

01:21She also said that the company had failed to allow Tan the option of working from home

01:26although it was in possession of a private hospital's medical report stating that he

01:30could return to work under an alternate working scheme.

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