This study is designed to address one of the major issues regarding employment contracts that have been widely debated when most businesses were forced to shut down by the state authorities as part of the containment measures of the Covid-19 pandemic. The issue is on the entitlement of employees to secure their full wages while they can't perform their work at all or partially perform the assigned tasks from home. Therefore, this paper explores the issue by examining the legal position of 'wages' in employment contracts under the Malaysia employment legal framework. As a contract of employment is generally built on the exchange of labour for wages or is better known as the work for wages rule or work-wage bargain, it is pertinent to evaluate the extent the rule affects the contractual parties of employment in such circumstances. This research is purely doctrinal legal research that applies a critical analysis approach. Apart from the reference to the relevant statutory provisions and case laws within Malaysian and foreign jurisdictions in particular the United Kingdom and Australia, the issue is evaluated through the theory of employment relationship. This paper generally has found the inadequacy of the Malaysian labour law in dealing with the issue effectively and calls on the legislative to pursue considerable thoughts that enable statutory provisions for the same issues to be dealt with better in the future.