MAHB unit wrong to sack engineer for refusing Covid-19 tests, court rules

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The Industrial Court says the firm was wrong to require the employee to take a test at a private clinic twice weekly at his own cost.   Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/02/14/mahb-unit-wrong-to-sack-engineer-for-refusing-covid-19-tests-court-rules/   Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/02/14/anak-syarikat-mahb-salah-pecat-jurutera-berkait-ujian-covid-19-kata-mahkamah/   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 #MAHB #Covid19Test #Engineer

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00:00The Penang Industrial Court ruled that Malaysia Airport's Indiran Berhad, a wholly-owned

00:06subsidiary of Malaysia Airport's Holdings Berhad, wrongfully dismissed its senior executive

00:11engineer for refusing to take COVID-19 tests at a clinic twice weekly at his own cost.

00:18Court Chairman Ruzita Lazim found Irfan Sani Rashid's dismissal unjust, saying that MASB

00:23should have accepted Irfan's offer to conduct supervised self-tests in the office.

00:29She said the company's actions were maliciously intended to terminate Irfan for insubordination

00:33and serious misconduct, even though he had no prior disciplinary record.

00:39Ruzita said the national COVID-19 policy only required testing before entering the workplace

00:44and did not mandate expensive clinic tests.

00:48The court found MASB's requirement for employees to pay for health certificates to be in contravention

00:54of the national testing strategy that came into force on November 26, 2021.

01:00While the court ruled in Irfan's favor, Ruzita noted that he must bear some responsibility

01:05for refusing RTK-AG tests certified by a doctor, leading to a 10% deduction from his back wages.

01:12After an additional 40% deduction for the post-dismissal earnings, Irfan was awarded

01:17RM 100,743, including RM 40,297 as compensation for his eight years of service.

01:26Dhanush Rajareza, FMT News.

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