PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Trades Union Congress president Abdul Halim Mansor said the government must end the country’s dependence on foreign workers in order to get Malaysians back to work. He said this was more important now as a Statistics Department report showed job cuts in every sector. The Labour Productivity of Second […]
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) wants the government to deliver the hard facts on the struggles the people are facing amid a weak economy and high unemployment rate due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Citing Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz’s claim yesterday that the economy has “rebounded strongly” based on June’s gross […]
KUALA LUMPUR, August 11 — The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) warned today that the unemployment rate among Malaysians will soar further and employers may start hiring more foreigners if the government continues to turn a blind eye to the current wage rate in the country. MTUC secretary-general J. Solomon also singled out Human […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 ― The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has strongly urged Putrajaya not to endorse the ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). In a press statement today, its secretary-general J Solomon said that the call was not related to any position the previous Pakatan Harapan […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has called on the government not to endorse the ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). MTUC secretary-general J. Solomon said this is irrespective of the position taken by the previous administration on the free trade agreement. He said although Senior International […]
The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) has urged the government not to endorse the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as it lacks protection for worker rights and may result in the removal of existing protections. “MTUC strongly calls on the government not to endorse the ratification of the CPTPP, irrespective […]
By Lee Hwok Aun AUGUST 12 — The Rio 2016 Olympics is making waves for reasons glorious and notorious, but the carnival of sport has made one unambiguously positive statement with the first ever inclusion of a team of refugees. The athletic participation of nationally displaced peoples, alongside those flag-bearing for their homelands, serves timely […]
Anas Alam Faizli Professor Robert Merton, one of the founding fathers of modern-day sociology argued that “a false definition of the situation evokes a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come true”. We are accustomed to several economic facts that we accept as the norm, although it might be different elsewhere. It is […]
