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PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airlines System Employees Union has called on the Prime Minister to carry out a restructuring of the airline’s top management.
Executive secretary Mohd Jabbarullah Abd Kadir said the existing top management “did not have proper experience in the aviation industry, hence failed to play their roles to bring profit for the company.”
He said several other units in the company, such as the human resources, engineering, commercial and sales, were also led by inexperienced and incompetent leaders.
“These people were outsiders who were paid high salaries but they failed to perform. Why do we need them when MAS has its own qualified staff to lead those units?” he told a press conference at MASEU office here.
MAS reported a net loss of RM443mil for the first quarter this year compared to RM279mil loss in the same quarter last year, a situation made worse by the disappearance of its flight MH370, which slowed down demand for air travel.
Mohd Jabbarullah said the union also called on the prime minister to look into the MAS’ staff shortage issue, which had affected operations.
“Many MAS employees had quit because they could not tolerate the management. Thirty MAS pilots had also quit to join other airlines and this is a big loss for MAS,” he said.
On the report that MAS was planning to sell its engineering unit as part of its plan to make profit, Mohd Jabbarullah said this was absolutely uncalled for as an engineering unit was a vital part of any aviation company.
He said the union would stage a protest against the plan at the MAS Building in Subang Jaya on May 26 because “we really think that the unit is important to MAS.”
Source: The Star
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