In the newly lined up Malaysia cabinet announced yesterday, Datuk Dr. S Subramniam has been appointed the new Human Resource Minister, replacing Dato Wira Dr Fong Chan Onn. Subramaniam is the MIC Secretary General.
The Human Resource Minister is responsible to making sure that the labor and human resources policies are formulated in a fair manner that will benefit all parties. The minister is backed by 9 divisions, namely: Manpower Department, Department of Skills Development, Labor Department (1-Peninsular Malaysia, 2-Sabah and 3-Sarawak), Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), Trade Union Affairs, Industrial Relations Department and Industrial Court.
But most workers and employees in Malaysia would care less about the roles of the Ministry and show little interest except about jobs, and in particular with the Job Clearing System (JCS) introduced by the Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX) which is under the directive of the Human Resource Minister. The JCS is a system implemented to provide an automatic job matching service to job seekers.
Subramaniam will be assisted by Datuk Noraini Ahmad, the Puteri UMNO Chief as the Deputy Minister.
I was just wondering if the Malaysian Labour Law protects doctors working with a government health facilities. Most of the time, we are required to work about 36 hours straight, sometimes even without sleep when we are on-call. Is this considered abuse of labour by our employers according to the Malaysian Labour Law. If doctors are not protected by this law, why is that so?
Perhaps, Dr S. Subramaniam would like to offer some enlightenment which will put to rest this perturbing question which has been running in the minds of all doctors.
I would like to comment regarding Indonesian maids. Maids are not abused by Malaysian employers, authority should listen to both the parties employer and maids. HEre i would also bring up matters regarding agents, who collect so much money from the employer and send maid who does not know to do basic house work, employers feel frustrated for paying so much and get a lousy product. I also want to know why always only employers are blamed and not the agents who abuse the maids. Maids are cheated by the own agents in indonesia and malaysia. why should they collect advance 5 months salary from employers. when maids come to know they are not paid for 5 mths then they have no interest to work. who to be blame. why malaysia goverment not aware of this. it is really unfair for the employers where they have to bring out alot of money and when maid runaway they have to pay the fine. Indonesia agents should stop cheating the maids and employers. Please take action on this matter. Please allow tghe employers to choose maid from different country withour hassle. Why agents are forced to take maids only from indonesia and discourged to take from other country. thank you
Dear sir
Please advise me. All the staff has been doing overtime lately. Suddenly the management try to be funny by cutting down staff over time. Because of we already make the overtime last month and they are cutting it down.
My Question
What action can we make to ensure that company is paying all the overtime? Because we does not exceed the hour that implement by the Malaysia government not more then 104 hours. Please advise me. URGENT
I join the banking industry as a clerk and was promoted to an officer 2 years back. As a clerical, I was a union member until my promotion. During my period as a union member, I contributed to a Benevolent Fund. Under the rules of the Benevolent Fund, the member can withdraw the fund if retired, leaving the work force or promoted. When I wrote in to ask for the withdrawal of my fund which I had contributed over 13 years, I was rejected. Reason cited was that I am not promoted to a category of a managerial staff. That being the case, I felt very cheated as it was clearly stated in the Rules & Regulations of the Benevolent Fund that once promoted, I get to withdraw. They even asked me to continue to be a member but that is impossible as being a union member would be a conflict of interest as I cannot enjoy both a clerical benefits and that of an officer. I hope the Ministry will look into this matter as my collegue who was also promoted to the same position as me a few years back get to withdraw her fund. Under the Trade Union Act, Section 27 8(a) “Managerial And Profession Group” means Kumpulan Pengurusan Dan Ikhsas or when used in reference to persons employed by a statutory authority it means any group of persons corresponding to those refered to under the Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bil.1 Tahun 1978. The union’s definition is that a managerial staff have to have the title manager to it. But based on the above said 8.2 of the Pekeliling Perhidmatan, any persons corresponding to those referred to under the said bill is considered a managerial staff which fit my current post. Anyway, if only a manager or any one promoted to a manager can withdraw, then what is the point of contributing if once promoted, you cannot withdraw and the fund will be forfeited after a certain period if you are not contributing. You cannot contribute if you are not a union member. So from my point of view, it defeats the whole purpose if the member cannot withdraw once promoted and under the banking industry, it is rank and file. You cannot be promoted to a manager from a clerk. It make no sense at all to contribute to a fund which you don’t get anything back. I have written in a few times asking for the withdrawal and they have rejected me. Pls advise. Thank you.
The extension of the retirement age bill to 60 years has already been gazeted by Parliament. However, financial institutions; particularly, banks have yet to implement or announce plans on when they intend to implement the Bill leaving many workers in the dark as to whether they will be allowed to work to 60 years old. Can the Ministry of Labour do something about this? Workers will be grateful and relieved if the Ministry can shed some light and ensure that the Bill is speedily implemented by 1 January 2013.