Emergency Employment Regulation acts as a support to governments as to generate job opportunities in response to demands arising from crises. The initial short-term emergency employment transitions into a more integrated medium-to long- term term approach to recover from and be better prepared for future crises. Over the years, the Emergency Employment Regulation approaches to infrastructure development have proved to be effective in both preparing for disasters and contributing to conict prevention as well as during the recovery and reconstruction works. The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has urged the government to impose the Emergency Employment Regulations, which will bar employers from retrenching workers for a specific period following the Covid-19 pandemic. The MTUC secretary-general said that the government should come up with an action plan to protect the workers from being retrenched. They also urge the government to give priority to the workers' welfare not only during the MCO period but all the time. They should be guaranteed their income and job security all the time. Measures that can be taken by employers to prevent retrenchment of employees when the company indeed facing financial difficulties. One of it is job retention (JR) schemes. Job retention schemes have been one