The 400,000 workers in government-linked companies (GLCs) have been forewarned to brace for a salary cut by September because of the economic downturn, MTUC vice-president Mustafa Maarof disclosed today.
This was conveyed to the unions when the management of these companies headed by Khazanah Nasional met the workers’ representatives recently.
Mustafa, who is also the executive secretary [...]
June 19, 2009
Salary cut for GLC confirm! Government salary remains.
June 19, 2009
Sultan of Perak & Non Racism
“The Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, said any move which questions the interests of the Malays and Bumiputeras in terms of scholarships and places of study not only violates the fundamental provisions in the federal and state constitutions but also questions the sovereignty of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay Rulers.
He said Clause [...]
June 19, 2009
Indonesian maid abuse will happen again!
Malaysian ‘Boss’ mentality haven’t change for the pass 2 months, although news of maid abuse frequently apper in the Headline news. Check out the poll done by The Star.
Many against day off for maids
PETALING JAYA: More than 75% of respondents in an SMS poll conducted by The Star are against the idea of granting maids [...]
June 19, 2009
Najib retraces father’s footsteps in Serian
KUCHING: When then deputy prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein visited Kampung Pichin, Serian, in 1966, he launched a hill-clearing project for the construction of three Bidayuh longhouses and a water supply scheme.
Nearly 43 years later, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak saw the fruits of his late father’s labour when he toured the [...]
June 19, 2009
Teenager gang-raped & made sex slave for 12 days
A TEENAGER who took up an offer by four strangers to send her home was gang-raped by them for 12 days in a house in Kuantan, reported Sin Chew Daily. The four men had approached the victim, aged 19, after she and a friend whom she had watched a movie with at a Kuantan shopping [...]
June 19, 2009
Boss raped me, says shop assistant
KUANTAN: A 17-year-old shop assistant has claimed that her employer raped her in his house in Raub on Monday.
According to state CID chief Asst Comm T. Narenasegaran, the victim believed that the employer was sincere in wanting to send her back to her hostel after the shop, located in Simpang Kallang, closed at about 11.45pm.
“However, [...]
