Gig Workers Act 2025
GIG WORKERS ACT 2025
AKTA PEKERJA GIG 2025
Act 872 · consolidated to 31 Dec 2025 · 59 pp
What this does to artists
The first Malaysian statute written for people who are not employees, and in large part an arts statute. Its Schedule names the work directly: acting, film production crew, singers, musicians, composers, lyricists, make-up artists, hair stylists, stylists, interpreters, translators, transcribers, journalists, stringers, photographers and videographers. If that is what you do, you are a gig worker under this Act whether or not a platform is involved. It gives you a written service agreement, payment within seven days where the agreement is silent, no termination without just cause, free conciliation before the Director General for Industrial Relations, and a Tribunal.
Two things the page cannot show you. First, s.33 gives the Tribunal power to make any award it thinks just and appropriate, including consequential loss, with no monetary ceiling written into it; small claims stops dead at RM5,000. Second, s.36(3) bars advocates and solicitors from appearing at all, but s.36(2)(b) lets a gig worker be represented by an official of a gig workers' association or by a family member. A gig workers' association means one registered under the Societies Act 1966, so a company limited by guarantee cannot be one. You have to reach the Tribunal through conciliation first; you cannot file there directly.
What to read first
Section numbers read out of the AGC text itself
Where this one bites
Stage a play, gig or live show
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ScenarioTake a brand deal as a creator
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ScenarioChase an unpaid fee or invoice
Being owed money is common, and it is fixable more often than people expect. Where you go to get it depends on…
Full arrangement of sections 80 sections · show / hide
Extracted from the AGC PDF on this page.
Subsidiary legislation
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