Thursday, January 24, 2013

mStar Online : Tiga Bekas Juruterbang MAS Gagal Dalam Rayuan Berhubung Pemecatan Konstruktif

mStar Online : Tiga Bekas Juruterbang MAS Gagal Dalam Rayuan Berhubung Pemecatan Konstruktif

PUTRAJAYA: Tiga bekas juruterbang kanan Malaysia Airlines System Bhd (MAS) gagal dalam rayuan mereka untuk mengetepikan keputusan Mahkamah Perusahaan bahawa penurunan pangkat mereka kerana salah laku, adalah adil.
Tiga panel Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan dipengerusikan Datuk Abdul Wahab Patailhari ini sebulat suara menolak rayuan Samsudin Zainol Abidin, 58, Azlan ZainalAbidin, 56, dan Ahmad Kamil Shahperi Shahibi, 53.
Panel hakim itu, yang juga terdiri daripada Datuk Balia Yusof Wahi dan DatukTengku Maimun Tuan Mat memerintahkan ketiga-tiganya membayar RM5,000 sebagai kosguaman kepada MAS.
Ketiga-tiga bekas juruterbang MAS itu merayu terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Perusahaan yang tidak membenarkan tuntutan mereka bagi pengembalian kedudukan jawatan kerana mereka mendakwa dipecat secara konstruktif oleh MAS.
Pada 21 Mei, 2010, Mahkamah Perusahaan menetapkan bahawa mereka gagal membuktikan mereka dipecat secara konstruktif oleh syarikat itu.
Pengerusinya, Eddie Yeo Soon Chye juga memutuskan hukuman penurunan pangkatbagi tempoh minimum dua tahun oleh panel siasatan MAS, dijalankan secara adil keatas mereka.
Pada 2 Julai 2010, mereka memfailkan permohonan semakan semula kehakiman diMahkamah Tinggi menamakan MAS dan Mahkamah Perusahaan sebagai responden.
Mereka menyertai MAS antara 1975 dan 1979 dan jawatan terakhir disandang sebagai kapten juruterbang bagi pesawat B747-400, dengan gaji terakhir dalam lebihan RM27,000.
Ketiga-tiganya mendakwa mereka menerima surat bertarikh 8 Dis, 2004 daripada MAS menyatakan mereka terbabit dalam penubuhan Asmara Air Services Sdn Bhd, tanpa kebenaran syarikat terlebih dahulu, yang bersamaan dengan salah laku.
Mereka kemudian menulis surat bertarikh 14 Dis, 2004 kepada syarikat, menafikan dakwaan itu. Bagaimanapun, siasatan dalaman diadakan dan mereka didapati bersalah kerana salah laku.
MAS mengeluarkan perintah hukuman ke atas mereka, dengan menurunkan pangkat daripada kapten juruterbang kepada pangkat pembantu juruterbang bagi pesawat yang sama tetapi gaji mereka kekal sama.
Ketiga-tiganya, dalam surat yang dihantar kepada MAS bertarikh 28 Mac, 2006, menganggap mereka dipecat secara onstruktif.
Pada 16 Jun, 2011, Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur menolak semakan kehakiman mereka dan mengekalkan keputusan Mahkamah Perusahaan.
MAS diwakili Datuk T. Thavalingam Thavarajah manakala Subitra Ravindran mewakili ketiga-tiganya yang kini juruterbang di syarikat berbeza. BERNAMA

CABARAN-CABARAN DALAM KESATUAN SEKERJA

Cabaran Dalam Kesatuan Sekerja by Mohamed Radzi Mohamed

Migrant workers in Malaysian electronics industry face atrocious working conditions

http://goodelectronics.org/news-en/migrant-workers-in-malaysian-electronics-industry-face-atrocious-working-conditions
 Research reveals severe violation of labour rights throughout the sector
 
Migrant workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry are heavily indebted by the time they start working because of extortionate fees of recruitment agencies. Migrant workers are paid less, sometimes even only half, of what they were promised by the agencies that recruited them, and deductions are made from wages without proper explanation. Workers will undergo HIV testing as part of medical screening and women workers have to have mandatory pregnancy tests and are sent back home if they get pregnant. Contracts, if received at all, are often in a language not understood by the migrant workers, and migrants regularly work up to 72 hour per week.
Many other violations were found by recent field research, including the fact that most workers interviewed had their passports held by the outsourcing agencies, to prevent them from leaving. The findings are presented in the recent makeITfair-report ‘Outsourcing Labour’, which will be released by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) today. “All in all, these workers face atrocious working conditions”, explains SOMO-researcher Esther de Haan “ and are earning less to nothing for long hours of work”.
makeITfair worked with local researchers in Malaysia and interviewed over one hundred workers. The wages of the migrant workers in Malaysia are not only much lower than initially promised and expected, but are also partly used to pay off debts and to pay for accommodation.  Workers receive subsistence wages for above-average working hours, including structural unpaid overtime. Workers also face disciplinary measures and threats of deportation in case they might complain or are absent, even when on grounds of illness. Anonymous complaint mechanisms are virtually absent or not made accessible to migrant workers by failing to provide information in their native language.
The factories that were investigated provide parts for DVDs, cameras, and TVs, chips and remote controls to large brand names like Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba. These companies take inadequate steps to protect migrant workers in their supply chain, the research shows. None of the companies sourcing form the factories researched for this report have a specific policy on migrant workers. Two companies sourcing in Malaysia, HP and Apple, have, however begun including migrant workers in their monitoring and training activities. Philips has also let makeITfair know that they have taken up the issue in their factory in Malaysia and are adapting their policies on migrant labour and are taking action on several problems they have identified.
The found labour rights violations are directly linked to the current outsourcing practices in Malaysia, where recruitment agencies increasingly act as direct employers, blurring employment relationships and obscuring responsibility for labour rights violations. Furthermore, the fact that migrant workers are dependent on employers and outsourcing agents for their legal status means they are vulnerable to abuse and effectively have no access to justice, as complaints can lead to dismissal and deportation.