Bernama
By Mohd Nasir Yusoff
June 20, 2007 22:18 PM
JAKARTA, June 20 (Bernama) — The Malaysian embassy in Indonesia today assured
the husband of maid Ceriyati, who was believed to have been abused by her employer in Kuala Lumpur, that the case is under investigation and the wrongdoer is likely to face legal action.
Bernama
June 19, 2007 14:24 PM
PUTRAJAYA,
June 19 (Bernama) — Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has told the Malaysian Trades
Union Congress (MTUC), the umbrella union body for nearly 8 million private sector
workers in the country, not to picket over demands for a minimum wage.
Oleh: Rafzan Ramli
Jun 2007
Sejak kebelakangan ini, kita sering terdengar dan terbaca di dalam
media cetak dan elektronik mengenai tuntutan agar dasar gaji minimum dilaksanakan
di Malaysia. Badan-badan yang berkaitan seperti Kongress Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia
(MTUC), Kongres Kesatuan Pekerja-Pekerja Dalam Perkhidmatan Awam (CUEPACS) dan
beberapa Pertubuhan Bukan Kerajaan (NGO) dengan lantang menyuarakan tuntutan tersebut.
Tuntutan ini dirasakan semakin relevan apabila Perdana Menteri merealisasikan
tuntutan CUEPACS dengan mengeluarkan kenyataannya dalam perhimpunan hari pekerja
kakitangan awam di Putrajaya pada 21 May 2007 mengenai kenaikan gaji pokok dan
elaun bulanan kakitangan awam sebanyak 7.5% hingga 35% yang akan berkuatkuasa
pada 1 Julai 2007. Harus difahami bahawa pengumuman kenaikan gaji dan elaun kakitangan
awam yang dikeluarkan oleh Perdana Menteri ini bukanlah satu gagasan atau dasar
gaji minimum yang diperjuangkan oleh MTUC atau badan-badan organisasi yang lain.
Malaysiakini
Jun 19, 07 11:54am
The plight of an Indonesian maid who knotted pieces of cloth
together to flee the 15th-storey flat of her allegedly abusive Malaysian employer
was just the "tip of the iceberg", said an activist.
New Straits Times
2007/06/19
PUTRAJAYA,
Tues:
The Malaysian Trades Union Congress has threatened to hold a nationwide
picket on Monday if the government fails to respond to its demand that the minimum
wage for private sector employees be fixed at RM900 a month.
New Straits Times
2007/06/19
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| The Bangladeshis claimed they were fed leftover food from a restaurant. |
GELANG
PATAH, Tues:
They thought they were coming to the promised land,
where lucrative wages, plentiful food and benevolent employers abound.
Inter Press Service
By
Anil Netto
PENANG, Jun 19 (IPS) – He died a lonely death in a
budget hotel room in downtown George Town earlier this month, far away from home.
The death went unreported in the local media and unnoticed by most Malaysians.
New Straits Times
2007/06/18
PUTRAJAYA: People who ill-treat their maids may be barred for life from employing them.
The director of the Immigration Department’s enforcement division, Datuk Ishak Mohamed, said he would not hesitate to make such recommendations to the department’s foreign workers division.
