Essential Law for Executives & Managers

VENUE: HOTEL ISTANA, KUALA LUMPUR
DATE: 25th - 26th August 2010
TIME: 9.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Program Highlights

• Employing a Staff
• Letter of Employment                                               
• Law of Contract
• Contract at the Workplace
• Solving Employee Problems
• Employer’s Liability in Negligence
• Negligence at the Workplace

Who Should Attend? 

• General Managers
• Managers
• Executives
• Supervisors
• HR Personnel 

Program Overview

Interested in knowing what actions are right and wrong at the work place???
The 3 common legal issues that arise at the work place are related to the Law of Contract, Negligence and Employment. It takes
up a lot of work hours and money trying to solve these issues. We believe precaution is better than cure.
This two day program will give the participants all the legal information needed to organize themselves and their organization
systematically thus securing the organization’s legal position.

Program Objectives

• Understanding the Law of Contract & its importance.
• Being better able to handle contracts for the benefi t of your organization.
• Knowing Employment matters & the Regulations which affect it.
• Drafting formal letters and agreements related to employment.
• Understanding the Law of Negligence & its importance at the workplace.
• How employers can be liable for their employees’ actions & precautions that can be taken.
• Handling diffi cult employees better (legally).
• Solving work and employee related problems more effectively.
• Understanding the law relating to the employment and dismissal of employees.

Program Director - K. Pathmanathan

K. Pathmanathan, an Associate Trainer of RCJ Consulting brings to this program 20 years of working and training experiences with various organizations
and deals with top level management in various areas of Law and Management. He has been a principal consultant in organizing and managing a number
of companies.
He has conducted many in-house and public seminars/ trainings for many organizations and his participants range from supervisory staff to the highest level
managers which include Managing Directors and Financial Controllers. He has also written the Law manuals for L.L.B. undergraduate students and has
conducted a lot of practical exercises for the same.
His goal in conducting this program is to ensure that all managers and heads of department understand fully the legal consequences of their actions and also
the legalities surrounding issues and incidents arising at the workplace, thus putting them in a position of strength and not caught by surprises.
His participants have found his training programs to be highly effective and relevant to their jobs. Many have acknowledged the fact that their performance
and decision making in the relevant areas have improved tremendously. This has also been manifested in the post-training evaluation reports and the strong
recommendation by participants for others to attend similar programs.
He has trained participants from various organizations who come from all over the country. They include participants from Petronas and its subsidiaries,
Tenaga Nasional, Jabatan Air, Telekom, Modenas, Proton, TM Touch, Silitek Corporation, Mattel (M), United Sweethearts Garment, Yan Jin (M), BAX Global,
Circle Freight, Kintetsu Air Services, Bayview Beach Resort, Cititel Resort, Evergreen Laurel Hotel, DIC Compounds, Sitt Tatt Co, Transocean Malaysia,
Harbour Board - Sarawak, Tim Electronics, Sony Malaysia, Fed Ex, GD Express, Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri, Jabatan Tanah and other government
agencies and many more. K. Pathmanathan is a hands-on, bilingual trainer who graduated with L.L.B (Hons) from the University of London in 1986 and
the CLP (Mal) in 1987.
 

Program Contents

CONTRACT FOR MANAGERS

FORMATION OF A CONTRACT

• Contracts Act 1950

WHAT IT TAKES TO HAVE A PROPER CONTRACT

• Offer
• Acceptance
• Consideration
• Intention to Create Legal Relations
• Capacity to Contract

SECURING THE RIGHT TERMS IN YOUR CONTRACT

• Implied and Express Terms in a Contract
• What are Implied Terms?
• Are they relevant in Contracts?
• Conditions and Warranties (Sale of Goods Act 1957)
• Understanding Conditions and Warranties and How
  they Affect Contracts
• Standard Terms in Contracts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (LEGAL)

EMPLOYMENT

• Employing a Staff
• Offer Letter
• Employment Agreement
• Terms of Employment

DEALING WITH EMPLOYEES

• Warning Letters
• Show Cause Letters
• Steps to Terminate an Employee

TERMINATION

• Defi nition of Termination & Dismissal
• Termination Clause in the Employment Act 1955
• Case Study
• Relevant Clauses in the Industrial Relations Act 1967
• Types of Termination

UNDERSTANDING LEGAL NEGLIGENCE

INCIDENTS AND THE WORKPLACE

• Negligence and the Workplace
• Duty of Care
• Breach of duty
• Causation
• Remoteness of Damage

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY

• Employer’s Liability for Employee’s Injuries
• Employer’s liability for Employee’s Negligence
• Vicarious Liability
• Employer’s Defence

WORKSHOP - FOR ALL MODULES
CASE STUDY - FOR ALL MODULES



To register please call: 
603 - 7490 4528/29/30 (Shanti/Mumtaz)
or Visit us online at www.rcj.com.my