Skrine

Employment Advisory and Disputes Employee Fraud Management and Investigations Fraud and Asset Recovery Immigration

Partner

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.

English, Malay

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

Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2010) Certificate of Legal Practice (2009) LL.B (Hons), Cardiff University (2008)