Depends 100% on your contract or company policy, there is no law forcing them to pay bonus if you are not employed on payout date. Most Malaysian companies have a clause "must be in active employment and not serving notice on the bonus payment date to be eligible". So if you resign in Jan and bonus is March, very likely you get zero, even though you worked the whole previous year. Cruel but common. My advice, if the bonus is worth a lot, time your resignation for AFTER you receive it. I literally waited until my bonus hit the account, then submitted resignation the next week. Check your handbook carefully, if it genuinely says nothing about active employment, you may have a case, but dont assume.