Labour force, is the most dynamic force in the nation building and economic development.
However, there is still a room of development for the Malaysian government to provide a better and conducive environment for the labour force, especially those blue collars workers.
We need an equal opportunities policy. The employers shall be prohibited to discriminate against employees on the basis of ethnic, gender, creed, religion, colour, national origin, and even the sexual orientation.
From my observations, I find that Malaysian employers did practice discriminatory policies on the employees. Certain employers prefer certain ethnic or gender on recruitments and promotions, while others may decide the remunerations based on the colour and national origin.
This is unfair.
I agree, the quota system provided under the New Economic Policy do help certain ethnic group which purported been marginalised, to stand a better chance in the workplace. However, this policy has brought more harms than goods.
Therefore, instead of maintaining a minimum quota of 30% of the employee must be Malays, I suggest this should be amended to a minimum quota of 20% for Malays, and another 20% for non-Malays, which include Chinese, Indians and others.
I believe a 100% Bumiputera (Natives) Company or 100% Non-Bumiputera (Non-native) Company is against the vision of the Prime Minister’s ‘One Malaysia’.
Further, we need to implement the policy of equal pays for equal works. It is a concept that individuals doing the same work should receive the same remuneration regardless of their sex, race, sexuality, nationality or anything else.
Please forgive for my idealistic view. As I believe, the foreign workers who do the same job shall receive the same pay as those local workers. At the same time, the local Chief Executive Officers who do the same job shall also receive the same remuneration as those expatriates.
Finally, we shall also apply the policy of the minimum wages as to protect the interest of those illiterate blue collar workers. Those workers working at the estates, constructions, agriculture and etc., has been systematically discriminate and marginalised by the Employers. Their right for a better living has been deprived by the profits-over-oriented Capitalists.
Equal opportunities, equal pays and minimum wages are those in my wish list for the 2009 Labour Day.
Happy Labour Day!
It will not happen in another century in malaysian mentality.
So long as certain employers of labor are deemed necessary to be ‘protected’, we will have a long wait for your wishes VoP.
In the eyes of the ruling elites, the labor force is expandable but those cronies who depend on cheap labor are not since they fund the elite’s war chest.
I guess I shouldn’t fault you for this as I didn’t realize it until last year. Having learned this, I’m trying my best to make amends for my past complacency.
In a way, what I enjoy today is a result of cheap labor, both domestic and foreign but that doesn’t mean I don’t care and can’t make right.
For me the way to do it is simple. Use my energy and resources to remove the obstacles to your equitable wishes. Perhaps you will understand why I oppose your party so much today!
Romerz,
If you notice that, Voice of Politics no longer blog on “party line”, or write anything to defend the “Gerakan” which he prouds to be with.
In Damocle’s term, the Voice Of Politics now is the “self exile Gerakanist” from the party.
Sincerely hope, you should judge him based on what he try to mean, rather than where he comes from.
30% bumi equity finally scrapped!…a wise decision.
http://satishsran.blogspot.com/2009/05/30-bumi-equity-gonepartly-anywayhello.html