Up and Coming
Provided by Siew Li Foo
- Employment Advisory and Disputes
- Employee Fraud Management and Investigations
- Fraud and Asset Recovery
- Immigration
- Treasurer, Malaysian Society for Labour and Social Security Laws, (local chapter of International Society for Labour and Social Security Laws)
- Member of Bar Council’s Industrial Law Committee
- Member, MICCI Human Capital & Education Council
- Author (updates), Lexis Nexis, “Commercial Transactional Precedents - Sale and Supply of Services”
- Co-Author, Lexology GTDT Labour & Employment 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Author, OneTrust Data Guidance - Malaysia Whistleblowing – 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
- "10 Key Amendments to the Employment Act 1955" infographic, which was republished by Lexology.
- Co-Author, Skrine Alert, “Additional Public Holiday announced for Hari Raya Aidilfitri” on 19.4.2023
- Co-Author, Skrine Insights dated 12.10.2022 - "Employees’ Social Security (Minimum Average Monthly Wage) Regulations 2022 comes into operation on 1 January 2023"
- Skrine Insights dated 2.9.2022 - "Employees’ Social Security Act and Employment Insurance System Act amended from 1 September 2022"
- Author, Skrine Insights dated 29.7.2022 - "The Employment Insurance System (Amendment) Bill 2022 passed by Dewan Rakyat"
- Author, Skrine Insights dated 28.6.2022 - "Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday"
- Author, Skrine Insights dated 17.3.2022 - "Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2022”
- Co-author, Skrine’s Alert dated 23.3.2022 -“Malaysia to raise minimum wage from 1 May 2022”
- Author, Skrine Insights dated 24.1.2022 - "Minimum Wages (Amendment) Order 2022"
- Author, Skrine’s Alert - “Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2022”
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights - “Federal Court: Hotels cannot use Service Charge to Meet Minimum Wage, republished by Lexology”
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights – “Malaysia My Second Home Programme Relaunched”
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights – “Sarawak’s Malaysia My Second Home Programme”
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights – “Self-Employment Social Security Act to Apply to Self-Employed Service Providers for Carrying and Delivering Goods and Food from 1 October 2021”, republished by Wolters Kluwer
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights “Application of Self-Employment Social Security Act Significantly Extended”, republished in Lexology and by Wolters Kluwer, Jan 2020
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights 4/2019 – “High Court Sheds Light on Section 31 of the Employment Act 1955: A commentary on Perwaja Steel Sdn. Bhd. (In Liquidation) v RHB Bank Berhad and 789 others”, republished by Wolters Kluwer
- Author, “Thomson Reuters Q&A on IT policy and Social Media policy”
-Co-Author, “International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Immigration 2018 Malaysian Chapter”
- Author, “International Comparative Legal Guide to: Employment and Labour Law 2018 Malaysian Chapter”
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights Issue 3/2017 “A Social Safety Net", republished by Praxis in 2018
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights 2/2016 “Turning the Tables on Perpetrators of Sexual Harassment”
- Author, AskLegal "When Employees Leave: Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation Clauses in Employment Contracts"
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights 3/2014, “The Pregnant Pause”, Skrine’s Legal Insights 3/2014
- Author, Skrine’s Legal Insights 1/2013, “Whistling While They Work”, Skrine's Legal Insights 1/2013
- Co-Author, The Malaysian Chapter, - "The Employment Law Review, Law Business Research" (2nd Edition, 2011; 3rd edition, 2012; 4th edition, 2013)
Foo Siew Li is a Partner in Skrine’s Employment and Immigration practice. Siew Li specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters and advises clients from various industries on all aspects of employment law.
Apart from acting as counsel in unjust dismissal claims in the Industrial Court, and in employment-related matters at all levels of court in Malaysia, and drafting of Human Resource documentation including contracts of employment, independent contractor agreements, handbooks, notices, and policies, Siew Li regularly provides strategic and practical advice to her clients on employee recruitment and onboarding, performance management and disciplinary action, restructuring and retrenchment exercises, voluntary separation schemes, termination of contracts of employment, the mechanism for transition of employees in mergers and acquisitions, trade union recognition and collective bargaining, and advising on work permits requirements.
Siew Li also advises businesses on the ‘social’ aspect in ESG compliance, specifically in relation to diversity, discrimination and the recruitment and management of foreign labour. She also provides strategic advice in internal investigations into highly sensitive matters involving fraud, sexual harassment, and discrimination perpetrated by and/or against employees.
Siew Li also has experience in the areas of fraud and asset recovery, civil and commercial litigation.
She is currently the Treasurer of the Malaysian Society for Labour and Social Security Laws (local chapter of International Society for Labour and Social Security Laws), Member of the MICCI Human Capital & Education Council, and sits on the Malaysian Bar’s Industrial and Employment Law Committee.
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Foo Siew Li is a partner noted for her coverage of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. She is involved in employment litigation and internal investigations, and also advises employers on restructuring.
