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Employees of the 80-year-old club picketed for the second time today over the
“unfair dismissal” of 42 staff in the field and golf section.
<p>They are being retrenched as of Oct 22. Another 54 employees in the administration,
food and beverage, and housekeeping departments expect to be sacked in December.</p>
<p>The RPGC branch of the Club Employees Union Peninsular Malaysia (CUPM) secretary-general,
Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid, said their last meeting with the management on Sept
14 ended in a deadlock. The committee said they were following instructions
from the State government.</p>
<p>He said the union had sent two letters to MB Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali
and a memorandum to Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn.</p>
<p>"We will send a letter to the Prime Minister if the problem is not solved,"
he added.</p>
<p>Recently, Tajol Rosli said that the retrenchment exercise was not meant to
victimise any of the employees and that everyone would get a fair deal. Some
of the workers may be offered jobs by the new management.</p>
<p>He cannot interfere with the decision as he is not a member of the committee,
he said, but if the issue is not resolved soon, he will have to take charge.</p>
<p>The majority of the affected workers had put in 20 to 32 years of service each
and, at their age, would be hard put to find another job.</p>
<p>The management of the club was handed over to the State Secretariat Incorporated
(SSI) last May. Under the new set up, a public company, the RPGC Bhd, takes
over the operations of the club.
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