News
22 August 2013
PUTRAJAYA: A total of 1.4 million Bangladeshi workers, scheduled to be recruited in stages from early next year, will be issued special identity cards (IC). Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the ICs would have Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and biometric technology, and would function as a debit card and stored-value card […]
30 July 2013
Malaysia’s main workers group has criticised employers who want a probation period and to pay 30% less for foreign workers with temporary work permits despite a government ban on the practice.
19 July 2013
BY B.K. SIDHU OF late, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has reinstated flights that it had axed about two years ago. At that time, it had cut capacity by 12% under its route rationalisation exercise in January 2012. Over the last few months, however, it has added some routes, with Dubai returning to its radar screen in […]
17 July 2013
As only 9 percent of the 5-million in the workforce are unionised, workers must be better organised and united to effectively champion their cause to the government. BUTTERWORTH: In view of housing debts rising to worrying levels coupled with the escalating of cost of living, most Malaysian wage-earner are now trapped between the affluent and […]
14 July 2013
This Minimum Wage Order discriminates against migrant workers by delaying their entitlement to minimum wages to 31 December 2013, points out Charles Hector.
13 July 2013
Bank Negara Malaysia seems to be oblivious of the devastating effects of Alliance Banks’s malpractices. The Malaysian Central Bank which is responsible of the economic climate of the country is allowing a foreign CEO to create an unemployment crisis towards the largest faction of the labour force, the low income earners.
11 July 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 – The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) is unhappy that exemptions are being given to hundreds of employers on implementing the minimum mandatory retirement age of 60.
7 July 2013
KUCHING (July 7, 2013): The government, through the human resources ministry, targets to reduce workplace-related accidents to three in 1,000 workers by 2015, as compared to 3.31 in every 1,000 workers last year. Minister Datuk Richard Riot said the government’s commitment in occupational health and safety would improve Malaysia’s image and international trade as foreign […]