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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 — The Malaysian Trade Unions Congress (MTUC) today accused Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran of being “militant” and “arrogant” in his approach to the labour law amendments that were approved by the Dewan Rakyat recently.
In a sharply-worded statement, MTUC claimed Kulasegaran had refused to allow the National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) to discuss and reach joint solutions on the proposed amendments to the Industrial Relations Act (IRA), a promise which MTUC said Kulasegaran failed to uphold.
“The minister has taken a very arrogant and militant-like approach in dealing with our basic complaint, in that he refused to allow the National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) to discuss and reach joint solutions on the proposed amendments to the Industrial Relations Act (IRA) before tabling them in Parliament,” the statement read.
“He (Kulasegaran) did not allow the NLAC to discuss and reach a joint solution to the amendments of the IRA; hence, his claim that his ministry had effectively engaged the MTUC and the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), the two main constituents of the NLAC, is false and misleading.
Source: https://www.malaymail.com/…/mtuc-kulasegaran-bulld…/1801990…
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