The Minister of Human Resources, Datuk Seri Ramanan Ramakrishnan (“Minister”), announced that the Gig Workers Act 2025 (“Act”) will come into operation in March 2026¹ once the Gig Workers’ Consultative Council (“Consultative Council”) to be established under the Act and related offices have been finalised.
 
The Minister also announced that in selecting members of the Consultative Council, priority will be given to the representatives of major platforms that represent a large share of the gig workforce.² The Consultative Council is to comprise not more than 29 persons, amongst whom the number of members representing contracting entities³ shall be the same as the number of members representing gig workers.⁴
 
Apart from the establishment of the Consultative Council, it will also be necessary, among others, for the Government to establish the Gig Workers’ Tribunal (“Tribunal”) and to establish the procedures to regulate the conduct of proceedings before the Tribunal⁵, and most importantly, for the Minister to appoint by notification in the Gazette, the precise date or dates in March 2026 on which the provisions of the Act are to come into operation. Stay tuned for the latter!
 
Our earlier articles/alerts on the Act can be accessed here, here and here.  
 
Alert by Foo Siew Li (Partner) of the Employment Law Practice of Skrine.

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