Malaysian Trades Union Congress

MTUC: 4.4pct salary hike too little to help Msian workers make ends meet

KUALA LUMPUR: The 4.4 per cent increase in average monthly salaries for Malaysian workers last year is relatively insignificant when compared to the financial challenges they face, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress said today. Its secretary-general J. Solomon said the rise, as revealed by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) yesterday, should be evaluated together […]

Workers remain in dire straits despite salary increase last year — MTUC

KUALA LUMPUR : Despite the salary increase in 2019, workers remain in dire straits and the worst is yet to come, said Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) secretary-general J Solomon.He said the 4.4% hike in salary and wages in 2019 as reported by the Statistics Department yesterday merely represented an average increase of RM137 in […]

MTUC urges Putrajaya to help ensure B40 workers’ job security

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 — The Malaysia Trade Union Congress (MTUC) today said the government must do all it can to protect the livelihood of employees, as most of them are from the B40 low-income group that have been struggling to sustain themselves and their families amid the Covid-19 pandemic. MTUC president J. Solomon said […]

4.4% wage growth too little for B40

A WAGE growth of 4.4% in 2019 does not give the full picture of the economy and leaves out the plight of those in the B40 and lower-income groups, said the Malaysian Trades Union Congress. “The 4.4% hike in salary and wage may seem commendable to some, more so… (that) the increase reflected the 4.4% […]

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Let refugees work legally

By Lee Hwok Aun AUGUST 12 — The Rio 2016 Olympics is making waves for reasons glorious and notorious, but the carnival of sport has made one unambiguously positive statement with the first ever inclusion of a team of refugees. The athletic participation of nationally displaced peoples, alongside those flag-bearing for their homelands, serves timely […]

The Fallacy of Malaysia’s Economic Realities and the Foreign Workers

Anas Alam Faizli Professor Robert Merton, one of the founding fathers of modern-day sociology argued that “a false definition of the situation evokes a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come true”. We are accustomed to several economic facts that we accept as the norm, although it might be different elsewhere. It is […]