Covid-19: 100 restaurant owners tell govt to come up with contingency plan before they are forced to shut down
Malaysian Armed Forces and police personnel are seen at one of the roadblocks in Kuala Lumpur March 22, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
“Consider new forms of financial assistance for employees who are affected by pay-cuts or other temporary measures that employers are pressured to implement, as well as direct assistance for employers who will otherwise be forced to shut their businesses as they have no means to pay wages and other expenses.
“Thus, with the MCO in place, we now face severely diminished sales coupled with normal costs of doing business, including ongoing obligations to pay rent, supply bills, wages, allowances, as well as other costs. “There is the question of whether employers are legally obliged to pay salaries throughout the fourteen-day MCO. This is a situation of force majeure, a frustration of contract, an event that is beyond the reasonable control of either employer or employee. In this kind of situation, either party has the right to nullify the contract,” MEF executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan was quoted saying.
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