While I was blog-hopping, I stumbled upon Jason’s entry who wrote about his encounter with a group of Maybank employees picketing outside of their branch office. I never knew about the strike before this, and upon further information-digging via the search engine, I discovered that the strike has been going on for quite some time, and started way back in September 2007.
Apparently, a number of YouTube videos are also uploaded depicting a number of strikes in different Maybank branches that include Maybank’s head office, Sungai Petani branch and Batu Pahat Branch. Below is the strike in Maybank’s head office (Menara Maybank) uploaded by Penny in YouTube (update: video removed. Click here to view Maybank’s head office strike).
When approached, the staff told that they were protesting the bank’s decision to take away their contractual bonus, which can be up to 3 months and instead replaced it with 30% salary increment.
Is that so? Let’s do some simple calculation here. For ease of reference, allowances, EPF calculations, SOCSO and others are excluded in the calculation.
