The law is very clear on this. Resignation cannot be forced.
However, if the company no longer wants you, they can terminate your employment through proper due process.
Now, if you want to claim forced resignation, you must prove with clear and cogent evidence that you were persuaded, pressured, directed, or even invited to resign, failing which you’d be dismissed. This is the part where some employers make the fatal mistake of preparing a resignation letter and asking you to sign it.
Or they give you an ultimatum: “Resign or be terminated” and, without anything more.
No proper explanation, no context. Just threats.
They’ll even say nonsense like, “Better you resign, so you don’t have a bad record.”
Then, you resigned and that resignation can be considered as a dismissal.
The keyword is “or be terminated” and nothing else, where the threat of being fired made you resign unwillingly.
If this happens, collect all evidence (messages, letters, witnesses), and lodge a report at the Industrial Relations Department or Jabatan Perhubungan Perusahaan (JPP) within 60 days from the dismissal date.
Gitu.
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