Currently, the teaching of labour law in
law schools is based on a purely legal
method or perspective based on statutes
and case law. Thus, a trans-disciplinary
approach based on a sound economic-legal
theoretical framework needs to be adopted.
Labour law has multidimensional roots
and facets consisting of components of
sociology, economics, politics, religion
and management science disciplines, which
should be reflected in the study of labour law,
but the economic perspective establishes the
strongest theoretical framework. A clear
module based on such an inter-disciplinary
approach needs to be introduced into the
study of labour law, both from the national
and international perspectives (Betten, 1993;
Valticos & Potobsky, 1995). This article
is a preliminary study on the economic
analysis law of labour law in the Malaysian
context with emphasis on its theoretical and
philosophical aspects