Monday, June 1, 2015

ILO:::About the ILC - International Labour Conference

The member States of the ILO meet at the International Labour Conference, held every year in Geneva, Switzerland, in the month of June.

Each member State is represented by a delegation consisting of two government delegates, an employer delegate, a worker delegate, and their respective advisers. (Employer and Worker delegates are nominated in agreement with the most representative national organizations of employers and workers.)

Every delegate has the same rights, and all can express themselves freely and vote as they wish. So it happens that worker and employer delegates sometimes vote against their government's representatives or against each other. This diversity of viewpoints, however, does not prevent decisions being adopted by very large majorities, or in some cases even unanimously.

MALAYSIA:::Wage index can’t take off over productivity dispute, say economists

The dispute over worker productivity and minimum wages in Malaysia is an indication that Putrajaya's new wage index, part of a strategy under the 11th Malaysia Plan (11MP) to increase livelihoods, especially the bottom 40%, is unlikely to get off the ground, say economists and trade unions.
Unions quote one set of figures to show that productivity has gone up to support their argument that wages are low and should be increased. 
On the other side is the employers' federation, whose figures show that productivity levels do not warrant a wage hike.

MALAYSIA:::‘Kedudukan istimewa’ GLC sukarkan siasatan, kata PAC ke Nufam

‘Kedudukan istimewa’ syarikat-syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) di bawah Khazanah Nasional menyebabkan Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara (PAC) sukar untuk melakukan siasatan atau mendapatkan penjelasan daripada pengurusan mereka.
Pengerusinya Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed berkata, di bawah pelan transformasi Putrajaya, GLC di bawah Khazanah tidak tertakluk secara langsung bagi memberikan penjelasan mengenai apa yang berlaku dalam pentadbiran, operasi atau pelaburan mereka kepada PAC.
“Ini yang berlaku apabila PAC memulakan dan melengkapkan prosiding klia2, projek di bawah MAHB, GLC di bawah Khazanah, sehingga ke hari ini, kerajaan masih belum mengarahkan Jabatan Audit Negara melakukan pengauditan terhadap projek pembinaan berkenaan,” kata Nur Jazlan.