People Profilers - practical guides, regional trends, and policy explainers from our consultants across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
The HRD Corp levy is a training fund, not a tax. Who has to register, the monthly deadline and its penalties, and how employers claim training costs back instead of leaving the balance unused.
Incorporating can take months and, for an expatriate hire, serious paid-up capital. When an employer of record makes sense in Malaysia, when it does not, and the question that decides it.
The expatriate salary policy changed on 1 June 2026. Basic salary only, the Category III exemption gone, and renewals now assessed under the new rules.
Salary is only part of the cost. EPF, SOCSO, EIS and the HRD Corp levy add roughly 14 to 16 percent on top, and two recent changes catch out payroll set up before them.
Most Malaysian employers can fill a junior role from a job board in a few weeks. The roles that hurt are the ones that stay open: the finance manager in
An Employer of Record (EOR) is a Malaysian company that becomes the legal employer of your staff while you remain the manager of their work. The EOR appears on the
Payroll parking is the Malaysian shorthand for placing your employees on a licensed third party’s payroll while they work for you day to day. The third party is the Employer
Malaysia is the market most companies pick when they want Southeast Asian reach without Singapore’s cost base. It offers an English-speaking, often trilingual workforce, a legal system built on the
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