Mengapa Islam Menggalak Kesatuan Sekerja

Pandangan lslam terhadap buruh atau kesatuan sekerja amat mendukacitakan. Kebanyakan pemikir-pemikir Islam kurang arif tentang hal perburuhan. Minoritinya telah menulis secara mudah dan juiur akibat dari kurang pendedahan. Kisah-kisah Nabi Nuh sebagai tukang kayu, Nabi ldris sebagai tukang jahit, Nabi Musa dan Nabi Muhamnad sebagai pengembala kambing. Dua atau tiga Hadis mengenai pekerjaan selalu disebut tetapi ini sahajalah bahan mengenai perburuhan yang dimiliki oleh para pemikir Islam tradisional. Kebanyakan daripada mereka yang telah menulis mengenai perburuhan cuba mengelak daripada menyebut isu kesatuan sekerja seolah-olah perkara tersebut adalah menjadi pantang-larang. Malahan setengah daripada mereka percaya bahawa kesatuan sekerja tidak selaras dengan lslam dan peraturan-peraturannya.

Sikap ini tidak berasas sekali dan sebab utamanya ialah kerana mereka kurang arif dan kurang pendedahan terhadap isu kesatuan sekerja. Mereka tidak mendapati apa-apa rujukan mengenainya di kitab-kitab Fiqh, Hadis atau Tafsir yang ditulis 10 abad yang lalu. Kesudahannya, terjadilah suatu jurang pemisahan yang besar diantara pemikir-pemikir Islam moden dan pemikir-pemikir Islam tradisional mengenai isu yarg penting ini. Inilah sebab utamanva dan bukannya perbezaan di antara nilai Islam dan kewujudan kesatuan sekerja.

AMALAN KUTIPAN ADIL

Pada garis panduan 6.5.3 pula ada dinyatakan:

• Kuasa pengutip hutang – pengutip hutang harus tidak secara palsu/menipu menunjukkan seolah olah mereka mewakili Penguatkuasa Undang Undang atau mendakwa mereka mengutip hutang atas arahan Mahkamah, dengan tujuan memperdayakan peminjam untuk membuat bayaran

Amalan Kutipan Hutang Adil by Salam Salam Solidarity (fauzi ibrahim) on Scribd

Overwork Takes its Toll on Mental Health of Japanese Youth

By AsiaToday reporter Kim Ye-jin - It has been revealed that Japanese young people are suffering from overwork-related mental problems amid chronic worker shortages.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has started “Youth Mental Health Project” this year, reported Nihon Keizai Shimbun (also known as ‘Nikkei‘) Tuesday. This is because more young people are seeking compensation for overwork-related mental problems.

MTUC: WE NEED TO ACT ON UNDOCUMENTED FOREIGN WORKERS

Press Statement

MTUC: WE NEED TO ACT ON UNDOCUMENTED FOREIGN WORKERS

MALAYSIAN Trades Union Congress (MTUC) takes seriously the recent statement by Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot that "for every 10 legal workers in Malaysia, there are seven illegal workers". In other words 70 per cent of foreign workers in Malaysia are illegal or undocumented and in breach of national law.

As it is a shocking open fact, MTUC also agreed with Datuk Seri Richard Riot that the existence of undocumented foreign labour workforce, hampering the Government's efforts to reduce dependence on foreign workers by 2020. Thus, we want the Government to immediately publicly make known its policy regarding the recruitment of foreign workers, and take a serious measures to overcome this issue.

Furthermore, it is time for the Government to make clear its policy on hiring new foreign workers. MTUC feels that as a matter of national interest, an official announcement must be made as soon as possible so everyone is clear.

We request the Government to have a meeting with all stakeholders, especially with the MTUC to explain the current policy on foreign workers. A single clear policy on employment of foreign workers is vital for the industry and the country in the longer run. We are willing to share our expertise and cooperation with the Government, and all relevant ministries.

It is undeniable that the MTUC had stated its disagreement with extreme dependence on foreign workers. Malaysia should move forward from depending on foreign workers. The industry and employers should work together with Government to reduce dependence on foreign workers. The absence of a clear policy is not good for Malaysia's image and reputation both at domestic and international arena.

MTUC is also suggesting that Human Resources Ministry should be given the primary role in formulating and implementing the foreign workers hiring policy as this will help the nation to have an effective and well-coordinated action plan in the future.

At the same time, the MTUC hope that the new income tax scheme designed for companies, which was announced by the Prime Minister in the 2017 Budget, will address retrenchment issues in the country and heavy reliance on foreign workers. MTUC also hope that employers will take opportunity to upgrade skills and their technologies to improve productivity and at the same time reduce hiring of foreign workers, and give more space for locals.

N.Gopal Kishnam
Secretary General

Bajet 2017::: SUARA PEKERJA DI PARLIMEN 25 Okt 16

A let down for the private sector, says MTUC

The private sector felt letdown today after most of the goodies in Budget 2017 were channeled to the public sector, leading Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) secretary-general Gopal Kishnam to lament that they were neglected.

Gopal said there was "nothing for the private sector", pointing to the lack of cost-of-living allowances (COLA), among others.

"We expected the government to advise private sector employers to consider giving their employees COLA.

RM300 is already being given to the public sector employees," he said.

"We expected personal relief on income tax, which is standing at 9 per cent at the moment, but there was nothing," Gopal told FMT.

He also bemoaned the lack of standardisation for the recently implemented minimum wage, pointing to the disparity between Peninsular and East Malaysia.

"We were expecting it to be standardised this year. It's a big letdown," he said.

The Minimum Wages Order 2016, which came into effect on July 1, 2016, set the monthly minimum wage from RM900 to RM1,000 for Peninsular Malaysia and from RM800 to RM920 for Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan.

Meanwhile Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan was wary over the government's plans to allocate RM50 million to increase employability of graduates and to extend the 1Malaysia training scheme (SL1M) to 20,000 graduates in 2017.

Last year, the target set was 15,000 graduates.

While he praised the initiative, Shamsuddin said that training should be given to private employers as well.

"It should not be restricted to GLCs as their capacity to train 20,000 graduates a year may be challenged."

source:::http://www.dailyexpress.com.my

Bajet 2017 tunjukkan pekerja swasta dianaktiri

SHAH ALAM - Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC) melahirkan kekecewaan berhubung pembentangan Bajet 2017 oleh Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Jumaat lalu.

Ini kerana menurut Setiausaha Agungnya, N Gopal Krishnam, pembentangan bajet kali ini tidak memberi faedah kepada pekerja sektor swasta di negara ini.

"Kami berpendapat kerajaan tidak mengendahkan isu-isu berkaitan pekerja swasta.

"Antaranya isu kenaikan kadar gaji minima kepada RM1,200 bagi Semenanjung, Sabah dan Sarawak dan pemberian Elaun Sara Hidup (Cola) sebanyak RM300 kepada pekerja swasta," katanya ketika dihubungi Sinar Online, hari ini.

Katanya lagi, kerajaan tidak sepatutnya menganaktirikan pekerja swasta memandangkan pekerja di sektor ini turut menyumbang terhadap ekonomi negara.

"Sumbangan pekerja-pekerja sektor swasta amat penting dalam menjana pertumbuhan ekonomi negara dan mereka tidak harus diabaikan," tegasnya.

Lebih memburukkan keadaan, katanya, tindakan kerajaan memansuhkan subsidi minyak masak akan memberi impak buruk terhadap harga makanan di negara ini.

Katanya lagi, tinjauan pihaknya juga mendapati sudah ada peniaga yang berani menyorokkkan stok minyak masak daripada terus menjualkannya di pasaran.

"Kami tidak menyokong sebarang kenaikan terhadap harga barangan makanan kerana tindakan kenaikan harga minyak pada bulan depan.

"Segala pemberian dan peningkatan bayaran bantuan rakyat tidak akan memberi sebarang makna sekiranya harga barangan naik secara mendadak," katanya lagi.

Harga beberapa kategori minyak masak akan dinaikkan mulai bulan depan.

Ia berikutan pemansuhan subsidi oleh kerajaan di bawah program penstabilan minyak masak baharu yang akan mula dilaksanakan November ini.

Harga minyak masak akan meningkat sebanyak RM0.40 sen bagi sekilo dan RM1.90 bagi 5kg akan meningkatkan semua harga barangan.

Menurutnya, kenaikkan harga barangan boleh menjurus kepada pelbagai masalah dan menyukarkan kehidupan isi rumah dan golongan berpendapatan rendah bagi membiayai kos hidup.

"Lebih-lebih lagi dengan kadar inflasi negara yang agak tinggi dengan kenaikan harga petrol dan GST.

"Pengumuman kenaikan harga minyak telah menyebabkan ramai pembekal telah mengurangkan penjualan minyak masak di pasaraya," ujarnya lagi.

Sumber:::http://www.sinarharian.com.my

Kenyataan Media

MTUC Terkilan dan Kecewa dengan BUDGET 2017

MTUC mengalu-alukan Bujet 2017 yang memberikan slogan ‘Untuk Rakyat kerana Rakyat’. Pelbagai inisiatif telah diberikan kepada pelbagai golongan terutamanya yang berpendapatan rendah umpamanya:

Ø  Mengekalkan subsidi bahan api bagi gas memasak, pampasan tol  dan pengangkutan awam;

Ø  Memberi pelepasan pembelian peralatan penyusuan ibu dan pelepasan hantar anak ke pusat asuhan kanak-kanak dan prasekolah;  

Ø  Pelbagai bantuan kepada nelayan dan pekebun bagi membolehkan mereka meningkatkan pendapatan mereka dengan subsidi harga padi, dan benih padi;

Ø  Pelbagai inisiatif bagi memudahkan pemilikan rumah persendirian dan pinjaman perumahan;

Ø  Pemberian inisiatif kepada pemandu teksi, geran RM5000 untuk membeli kenderaan baharu dan menawarkan permit teksi;

Ø  Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia-Kadar BRIM ditingkatkan.

MTUC Menyokong Tindakan National Union of Journalist (NUJ)

Kenyataan Media MTUC

MTUC  Menyokong Tindakan National Union of Journalist (NUJ)
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Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC) menyokong tindakan NUJ yang membuat laporan polis terhadap tindak tidak beramanah yang dilakukan oleh pihak-pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab terhadap wartawan semasa perhimpunan Bersih yang berlangsung baru-baru ini. Adalah difahamkan kumpulan anti-Bersih yang lebih dikenali dengan gelaran “Baju Merah” telah bertindak ganas terhadap tiga wartawan yang sedang membuat liputan terhadap perhimpunan tersebut.
Adalah menjadi tanggungjawab wartawan untuk membuat liputan media terhadap mana-mana perhimpunan, aktiviti yang berlangsung. Oleh yang demikian, pihak berkuasa perlu memberi perlindungan yang sewajar kepada mereka yang melakukan tugasan. Dalam perkara ini adalah menjadi tanggunjawab pihak polis dan Menteri Dalam Negeri untuk menyiasat perkara ini secara wajar dan memberikan keadilan kepada pihak yang dianiaya.
Pihak yang bersalah harus dibawa ke muka pengadilan supaya perkara sedemikian tidak berulang kembali lagi. Kita sedia maklum bahawa pihak wartawan tidak memihak kepada mana-mana pihak mahupun kumpulan Bersih atau Kumpulan baju Merah. Mereka hanya menjalankan tugasan mereka.
Sekali lagi MTUC ingin menegaskan bahawa MTUC menyokong penuh tindakan NUJ dan mohon kerjasama dari pihak Polis dan Menteri Dalam Negeri menyiasat perkara ini dan memberi keadilan serta perlindungan yang sewajar kepada semua pihak wartawan.
Wartawan sememangnya mempunyai hak untuk melakukan tugasan mereka tanpa sebarang sekatan dan ugutan. Mereka hanya menjalankan tugasan mereka yang diamanahkan.

PEKERJA BERSATU RAKYAT MAJU

N.GOPAL KISHNAM
Setiausaha Agung

PETALING JAYA: Pergelutan dilaporkan tercetus antara penyokong politik, hari ini, dan beberapa wartawan dipercayai dikasari apabila konvoi Bersih melalui Kuala Selangor, petang tadi.

Malaysiakini melaporkan, beberapa wartawan diganggu dan dipaksa memadamkan gambar serta rakaman video dalam kekecohan itu.

Seorang wartawan Malaysiakini ditumbuk di bahu, manakala seorang jurugambar video dan wartawan wanita The Star dipaksa memadamkan gambar serta rakaman video.

Seorang lagi wartawan lelaki dikasari ketika cuba membantu rakannya.

Menurut laporan itu, seorang penyokong Bersih turut diganggu selepas beliau berjabat tangan dan memeluk Exco Pemuda Umno, Armand Azha Abu Hanifah.

Seorang lelaki yang muncul di sebelah Armand kemudiannya menjerit “Jangan ganggu orang Tanjung Karang” dan meminta gambar tidak dirakamkan.

Anggota polis berhampiran segera menghentikan kekecohan itu dan menggesa kumpulan penyokong lawan bersurai.

Terdahulu pada tengah hari tadi, konvoi Bersih berarak secara aman di Sekinchan dan mengedarkan risalah di beberapa lokasi.

source:::http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com

MEMORANDUM 18 OCT 2016 KEPADA YAB PERDANA MENTERI DATO’ SRI MOHD TUN RAZAK

Private sector workers stage gathering in front of PMO

PUTRAJAYA: Hundreds of private sector workers staged a gathering in front of the Prime Minister's Office here Tuesday to pressure the Government into addressing their ongoing problems.

Claiming that their concerns have yet to be addressed despite numerous demands, the Coalition of Workers and Unions said the Government should not ignore their plight.

Its representative Mohd Roszeli Majid said workers in the private sector want their rights returned to them and hope this would be addressed in the upcoming national Budget.

"We're not asking for much. We are not asking for a lot of money. We are asking for them to return our rights.

"We were grateful when the Government announced the minimum wage, but why was it not the same for the workers in Sabah and Sarawak?" he said in his speech.

The rights, said the group, were included in a 10-point memorandum that was later submitted to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak through one of his aides.

Among the grouses are labour laws and practises being introduced without consulting workers’ unions; delays in recognition of unions; retrenchments and termination by government-linked companies; loss of income; outsourcing and displacement of jobs; victimisation of female workers; and foreign labour problems.

Speaking at a press conference later, National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) president Ismail Nasaruddin said the coalition hoped the Prime Minister will relook and review the memorandums the union had submitted through the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC).

"Many workers in various industries have lost their jobs and they are not able to find jobs easily. There are problems in terms of retrenchment, especially in Malaysia Airlines (MAS)," he said.

Meanwhile, Selangor MTUC division chairman Wan Noorulazhar Mohd Hanafiah said there are also problems with companies that are against the setting up of unions.

"They even disallow staff members from joining a union," he said.

source:::http://www.thestar.com.my

     

MTUC serah memorandum pemberhentian pekerja

18 Oktober 2016

MTUC

PUTRAJAYA - Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC) Selangor dan Wilayah Persekutuan serta gabungan kesatuan sekerja dari pelbagai sektor hari ini menyerahkan memorandum kepada kerajaan berhubung masalah pemberhentian pekerja dan hak untuk berkesatuan.

Pengerusi MTUC Selangor Wan Noorulazhar Mohd Hanafiah menyerahkan memorandum mengandungi 12 saranan itu kepada pegawai urusetia Perdana Menteri, Nik Mohamed Hussein Nik Ali di Perdana Putra di sini.

Memorandum berkenaan antara lain meminta kerajaan menubuhkan jawatankuasa pekerja di bawah Jabatan Perdana Menteri bagi menjalankan kajian terperinci demi jaminan pekerjaan dan kebajikan pekerja, katanya kepada pemberita selepas menyerahkan memorandum itu.

Terdahulu, Wan Noorulazhar dan 200 pekerja dari pelbagai sektor dan persatuan sekerja menyertai 'Workers Walk' dari Masjid Putra hingga ke hadapan balai pengawal bangunan Perdana Putra sebelum dibenarkan memasuki bangunan itu, yang menempatkan pejabat Perdana Menteri. - Bernama 

INTIPATI MEMORANDUM
                    
1) TRADE UNION RIGHTS
Hak Untuk Berkesatuan  -

PERLEMBAGAAN PERSEKUTUAN (1)(C)FASAL 10
‘Semua warga negara adalah berhak menubuhkan kesatuan”

AKTA KERJA 1955(AKTA 265)
‘Tiada apa-apa dalam kontrak perkhidmatan yang boleh dalam apa-apa cara menghadkan hak-hak mana –mana pekerja yag menjadi pihak kepada kontrak itu :
(a) Untuk memasuki kesatuan sekerja berdaftar,
(b) Untuk menyertai dalam aktiviti-aktiviti kesatuan sekerja berdaftar,sama ada sebagai pegawai kesatuan itu atau sebaliknya;  atau
(c) Untuk bersekutu dengan mana-mana orang lain untuk tujuan menubuhkan kesatuan sekerja menurut Akta Kesatuan Sekerja 1959.
Pada tahun 1961 Malaysia telah mengesahkan Konvensyen ILO 98 iaitu Hak untuk menganjur/mengurus dan Rundingan Kolektif.Sejurus itu kerajaan menggubal dan mengistiharkan Akta Perhubungan Perusahaan 1967 tetapi :
Perlaksanaan dan Kelemahan dalam Penguatkuasaan  telah menyebabkan penafian terhadap hak-hak Pengiktirafan dan  Rundingan Bersama  kepada jutaan kaum pekerja.

2) UNION BUSTING
Aktiviti Anti Kesatuan Berlaku Secara Meluas ;

Kebelakangan ini aktiviti anti kesatuan semakin  meningkat dan membimbangkan.Syarikat-syarikat besar  swasta bertaraf Mutinasional Company (MNC),GOC (government-owned company)  dan GLC (government- linked company)  telah melanggar  Kod  Amalan Harmoni Perhubungan Perusahaan 1975 (code of conduct)Dan melanggar  Akta Perhubungan Perusahaan 1967, seksyen  4, Hak-hak  pekerja  dan majikan dan seksyen  5 ;

1) Tiada sesiapa  pun boleh campurtangan  dengan, menghalang  atau memaksa seorang pekerja atau seorang  majikan dalam menjalankan hak-haknya untuk menubuh dan membantu penubuhan dan memasuki suatu kesatuan sekerja dan untuk menyertai aktiviti-aktiviti yang sah.



2) Tiada kesatuan sekerja pekerja-pekerja dan tiada kesatuan sekerja majikan-majikan boleh campurtangan di antara satu sama lain dalam penubuhan,perjalanan atau pentadbiran kesatuan sekerja itu.
3) Tiada majikan atau kesatuan sekerja majikan-majikan dan tiada sesiapa pun yang bertindak bagi pihak majikan tersebut atau kesatuan sekerja sedemikian boleh menyokong mana-mana kesatuan sekerja pekerja melalui kewangan atau lain-lain cara,dengan tujuan meletakkannya di bawah  kawalan  atau  pengaruh majikan  itu atau kesatuan sekerja majikan-majikan itu.
       
Antaranya;(MNC Swasta)
-Kilang  Renesas Semiconductor KL Sdn Bhd.
Industrial Court  Of  Malaysia  Case No: 22/3-733/13  AWARD  NO  244 OF 2016.
08 Mac 2016 BERSALAH kes  Union Busting  dan penghujahan  Yang  Arif Pengerusi  Mahkamah  Perusahaan,  pemecatan  Presiden  Kesatuan  Sekerja  adalah  tektik UNION BUSTING.

-Malaysia Airlines (MAS)
-Kumpulan Hicom DRB (GLC)
-SIRIM (GOC)
AMALAN INI PERLU SEGERA DITANGANI DAN DIHENTIKAN AGAR TIDAK MENJADI RUJUKAN

Kementerian Sumber Manusia melalui  Jabatan  Perhubungan  Perusahaan ;
GAGAL - Memastikan  amalan Code Of Conduct dipatuhi  demi  mewujudkan suasana perhubungan perusahaan yang harmoni.
GAGAL- Menggalakkan dan mengekalkan perhubungan perusahaan yang harmoni dan kondusif di antara majikan,pekerja dan kesatuan sekerja mereka untuk kemajuan ekonomi Negara dan kesejahteraan rakyat,
GAGAL- Memupuk dan memelihara perhubungan yang positif dan harmoni di antara majikan dan pekerja serta kesatuan-kesatuan sekerja mereka bagi mewujudkan suasana perhubungan perusahaan yang aman dan tenteram dalam Negara.



3) SECTION  20 INDUSTRIAL RELATION ACT 1967 (PEMULIHAN KERJA)
Sekatan yang  zalim dan tidak memberi keadilan kepada pekerja.
Menteri KSM telah meminda  Jadual Kedua dan menghad kan jumlah pampasan tidak melebihi  Dua Puluh Empat Bulan (2 Tahun) dari tarikh pemecatan berdasarkan Gaji terakhir  dengan alasan kes-kes pemecatan dibawah seksyen 20 akan diselesaikan dalam tempoh 24 bulan.
GAGAL dan terbukti  menindas, serta tidak berlaku adil kepada pekerja apabila kes-kes tidak diselesaikan dalam tempoh 24 bulan malah berlarutan hingga melebihi 60 bulan (5 tahun)
Antaranya ;
- Pengerusi  National Union of Journalist (Cawangan Utusan), 2009 – 2016 tertangguh di Mahkamah Perusahaan (9 tahun).
- Presiden Kesatuan Sekerja Industri Elektronik Wilayah Barat Sem Malaysia, 2011-2016 tertangguh di Mahkamah Perusahaan ( 5 tahun)
- Presiden National Union of Flight Attendants  Malaysia ,2013-2016 tertangguh di Mahkamah Perusahaan (3 tahun)
- 18 ahli dan Exco Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-Pekerja Perusahaan Alat-alat Pengangkutan dan Sekutu,2013-2016 tertangguh di Mahkamah Perusahaan (3tahun)
Pindaan ini akhirnya memberi kesan buruk dan ketidakadilan  kepada kaum pekerja terutama pemimpin pemimpin kesatuan sekerja dimana mereka dengan mudah dipecat  dan 99% keputusan Mahkamah  tidak berjaya mengambalikan pekerja ke pekerjaan asal, alasan kes berlarutan  tempoh yang lama dan kekosongan jawatan telah di isi.
Award Mahkamah Perusahaan  terikat dengan pindaan ini walaupun kes kes berlarutan lebih dari had waktu yang wajar diselesaikan iaitu 24 bulan.Walaupun bilangan Mahkamah Perusahaan telah bertambah namun pekerja-pekerja masih menghadapi kelewatan yang ketara untuk mendapatkan keputusan yang adil.Mahkamah seolah-olah tidak mengambil kira kehendak dibawah seksyen 30(5) IRA 1967 dimana ia dengan jelas menyatakan bahawa Mahkamah hendaklah bertindak mengikut ekuiti,perasaan hati yang baik dan merit kes yang substantial tanpa memikirkan kepada perkara-perkara teknikal dan berbentuk undang-undang.
Malah pada mulanya apabila Kerajaan menubuhkan Mahkamah Perusahaan dibawah mekanisme penyelesaian pertikaian,ia bertujuan untuk menjadi pengadil terakhir bagi menjatuhkan keputusan-keputusan  muktamad dan konklusif dan menamatkan semua pertikaian.Malangnya ,kini peranan Mahkamah telah berubah

kearah bertentangan dan mengheret kes-kes  sehingga ke Mahkamah Tinggi,Mahkamah Rayuan dan Mahkamah Persekutuan.
Ia bukan sahaja mengambil masa yang terlalu lama malah melibatkan beban kos kewangan yang sangat besar.Dan diluar kemampuan pekerja.
Pindaan perlu dibuat dengan kadar segera  memansuhkan  had pampasan 24 bulan agar tidak menyekat hak pekerja menuntut keadilan  dan kuasa  menentukan pampasan dikembalikan  kepada  Mahkamah Perusahaan seperti sebelum ini.
Seksyen 6 1. IRA 1967 – Menteri  boleh dari semasa ke semasa menambah,mengubah,atau meminda  Jadual Pertama atau Jadual Kedua melalui pemberitahuan dalam Warta.

4)CONVENTION 87 & 98
Menggesa kerajaan meratifikasi dan menguatkuasakan Konvensyen 87 dan Konvensyen 98 dibawah Pertubuhan Buruh Antarabangsa.Kedua-dua konvensyen ini amat penting dalam memperjuangkan hak kebebasan dan melindungi kebajikan pekerja.Malaysia masih belum meratifikasi konvensyen 87 (kebebasan berkesatuan) dan hanya mengesahkan konvensyen 98 (perundingan perjanjian bersama) untuk sektor swasta sahaja.Ia telah memberi kesan kepada perlaksanaan aktiviti pekerja.

5) UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICE
Pekerja bergaji RM 2001 dan keatas  sekitar 30-35% daripada 6.5juta pekerja swasta yang aktif dalam caruman KWSP/PERKESO tidak dilindungi dibawah  Akta Kerja 1955. Tiada jaminan pekerjaan, ditindas dari pelbagai aspek, tiada hak rundingan, kecuali mereka  mempunyai  Kesatuan Sekerja dan termaktub di bawah  Perjanjian Bersama.
Manakala Peraturan-Peraturan Kerja (Faedah-Faedah Penamatan dan Rentikerja Sentara) 1980. Faedah / Jumlah kiraan pampasan  berbeza diantara 2 Mahkamah dibawah Kementerian Sumber Manusia.
Mahkamah Buruh :  10 hari gaji x tahun berkhidmat (pekerja bawah 2  tahun)
                                    15 hari gaji x tahun berkhidmat (pekerja 2 tahun -5 tahun
                                    20 hari gajii x tahun berkhidmat (pekerja  5 tahun ke atas)
Mahkamah Perusahaan :   1 bulan gaji x  tahun berkhidmat.


6)RETRENCHMENT FUND
Tabung Pemberhentian Kerja wajar di laksanakan SEGERA kerana RASIONAL nya dari laporan KSM,
Daripada tahun 2007 hingga 2013,sebanyak 7,130 majikan telah memberhentikan seramai 222,986 orang pekerja dimana bayaran yang perlu dibayar oleh majikan kepada pekerja adalah sebanyak RM1.67 bilion.Daripada jumlah tersebut sebanyak RM1.27 bilion telah dibayar kepada pekerja manakala RM 397.45juta tidak dibayar kerana syarikat berkenaan telah  gulung tikar atau tiada sumber kewangan untuk membayar pampasan walaupun Mahkamah telah memerintah pembayaran pampasan tersebut dibuat.Malah pada tahun 2014 seramai 25,917 dan 2015 seramai 38,499 pekerja diberhentikan, menunjuk kan peningkatan. Manakala 2016 sehingga Januari sahaja  sekitar 5000 pekerja diberhentikan. Dan pada June 2016 sekumpulan 300 pekerja kilang High-5 telah diberhentikan tanpa membayar gaji tertunggak dan tiada sebarang pampasan.Pekerja telah bekerja hingga mencecah puluhan tahun.
Pada 2009 (Rancangan Malaysia 10) Kerajaan telah bersetuju pada prinsipnya dengan penubuhan Tabung Bantuan Kehilangan Pekerjaan. Sebanyak RM80 juta telah diperuntukan dibawah RMK10 dan 52juta telah disalurkan kepada PERKESO,
Namun  sehingga 2016 pekerja berterusan di berhentikan tanpa pampasan  dan amat dikesali pekerja tidak mendapat sebarang bantuan daripada  peruntukan RMK 10. Ia menunjukkan perkara ini tidak diambil berat oleh pihak yang dipertanggungjawabkan.

7)VSS JOBLESS
Kesan kegawatan ekonomi telah menyebabkan syarikat –syarikat mengecilkan operasi, pekerja pekerja ditawarkan pelbagai skim yang akhirnya menjadikan pekerja seorang penganggur diusia muda.Pelbagai tawaran di perkenalkan  Tanpa Rundingan antara ke 2 pihak (pekerja dan majikan),Tanpa Sukarela  malah wujud UGUTAN dengan berbagai kaedah MEMAKSA pekerja mengambil  tawaran . Semua tawaran ini berlaku tanpa memaklumkan  kepada Jabatan Tenga Kerja untuk pemantauan.Skim hanya dilihat  menghalalkan pembuangan .Antaranya –
Volunteer Seperation Scheme (VSS)
Early Retirement Scheme (ERS)
Mutual Separation Scheme (MSS)
Lay-Off (Pemberhentian Kerja Semantara) tanpa had waktu.

Amalan pembuangan kerja ini telah berlaku bukan sahaja di sektor sektor swasta tetapi juga di syarikat GLC dan GOC.

8)OUTSOURCING
Amalan Outsourcing telah menyebab kan berlakunya penindasan ,diskriminasi dan eksploitasi terhadap pekerja asing.Syarikat –syarikat  melanggar Akta Kerja 1955 seksyen 60L. Pekerja asing yang membuat aduan diugut oleh agen,dipukul,gaji disekat,ditukar ke syarikat lain kondisi lebih teruk,malah ada yang dihantar pulang ke negara asal.
Syarikat dengan nyata melanggar permit kerja (akta imigresen)  dimana pekerja asing dibawah permit syarikat induk di Outsource  /di jual  kepada agen-agen, gaji dibayar oleh agen dan   sewenang-wenangnya ditolak oleh agen mengikut keperluan agen.Majikan induk tidak bertanggungjawab (lepas tangan).

Amalan ini menyekat hak pekerja tempatan untuk mengisi ruang kekosongan kerja. Syarikat-syarikat MNC dan GLC  telah mengambil jalan mudah dengan menghentikan pengambilan pekerja tempatan secara tetap, dan meletakkan pekerja tempatan ke agen outsourcing untuk bekerja di syarikat.
Syarikat perlu bertanggungjawap sepenuhnya terhadap pekerja mereka,mematuhi peruntukan dalam Akta Kerja dan Akta Imigresen, bukan pekerja diperlakukan seperti hamba upah seterusnya  Tiada Jaminan Pekerjaan dan Negara bakal ditimpa limpahan kes perdagangan manusia.

9) FOREIGN WORKERS
MTUC tidak membantah Foreign Workers  (pekerja asing) tetapi membantah  kemasukan pekerja asing dengan berleluasa tanpa kawalan.Negara menjadi tumpuan pekerja asing mencari rezeki yang lumayan namun kebanjiran pekerja asing  telah menimbulkan pelbagai masalah .Pekerja asing boleh dikelaskan kepada  dua iaitu  pekerja  asing yang datang secara sah dan pekerja asing yang datang melalui jalan belakang atau pendatang tanpa izin (PATI).
Pekerja asing yang datang secara sah umumnya telah ditentukan jenis pekerjan,majikan,tempat tinggal dan melalui pelbagai proses untuk memenuhi kelayakan sebagai pekerja. Seterusnya diberi permit kerja yang dinyatakan tempoh kerja. Mereka ini mempunyai dokumen perjalanan yang sah,bebas dari penyakit

berjangkit,mempunyai kontrak pekerjaan yang sah dan tidak membawa banyak masalah kepada masyarakat dan Negara.
Kategori ke dua ialah PATI yang tidak melalui proses seperti pekerja asing yang sah.Mereka juga tidak mempuanyai dokumen perjalanan yang sah,risiko penyakit berjangkit yang  tinggi seperti tuberculosis (tibi) dan mudah di eksploitasi. Tingkah laku mereka sukar dipantau, setiap hari media akhbar dan elektronik melaporkan kegiatan negatif yang melibatkan pergaduhan dan kematian.Pendedahan demi pendedahan mewujudkan ketakutan,ketidak harmonian,ancaman dan keselamatan sosial  kepada masyarakat dan Negara.
Hak pekerja tempatan telah terjejas dimana Pihak Majikan lebih suka mengupah pendatang tanpa izin dalam sektor perladangan,pembinaan, pembuatan dan merebak ke sektor perkilangan kerana gaji mereka lebih murah.
Kenyataan Ketua Pengarah Imigresen  jumlah Pekerja Asing PATI dianggar kan lebih 2 juta dan jumlah pekerja asing  yang masuk secara sah dianggarkan lebih 1.9juta, bercanggah dengan kenyataan YB Menteri Sumber Manusia iaitu jumlah Pekerja Asing 6.7juta. Pekerja asing yang miliki permit sah 2.1juta. Pekerja asing  tiada permit sah 4.6juta. Malah memetik kenyataan YB Menteri menyatakan bahawa jumlah sebenar pekerja asing yang berada di Negara mungkin berlebihan.

10)TPPA (labour chapter)
Bagaimanakah Jaminan Keharmonian Perusahaan  ?
 Peraturan yang sedia ada termaktub  dalam Akta Perhubungan Perusahaan  jelas  jabatan  GAGAL memastikan ia dipatuhi dan menjadi panduan . Kini peraturan TPPA diantaranya - Hak mogok di permudahkan,Dibenarkan mempunyai lebih dari satu kesatuan dalam satu establisment,tred, pekerjaan atau industri,Keanggotaan kesatuan diperluas tidak lagi terhad dan termasuk pesara dan mereka yang telah dibuang kerja.Syarat untuk menjadi pegawai dalam kesatuan sekerja di longgarkan TERBUKA kepada BUKAN WARGANEGARA DAN PEKERJA POLITIK, Penggabungan dengan badan perunding luar Negara tidak lagi memerlukan kebenaran bertulis daripada KPKS,Semakan kehakiman ke atas keputusan  Menteri dan KPKS .






Dengan ini MTUC Selangor dan Wilayah Persekutuan bersama gabungan  kesatuan-kesatuan sekerja pelbagai  sektor memohon agar YAB Perdana Menteri memberi perhatian serius  menanggani isu dikemukakan.
Memohon mewujudkan satu jawatankuasa pekerja (Lab Pekerja) dibawah JPM untuk membuat kajian  dan penyelidikan  terperinci  demi  Jaminan Pekerjaan  dan keselamatan Negara seterusnya  merialisasikan Negara maju berpendapatan tinggi 2020.

‘RAKYAT DIDAHULUKAN PENCAPAIAN DIUTAMAKAN.’

MALAYSIA :::54 calon bersaing sengit merebut 13 jawatan MTUC bulan depan

Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC) bakal menyaksikan pertandingan sengit bagi semua jawatan pentingnya bagi penggal
2016 hingga 2019 pada persidangan perwakilan tiga tahun sekali kongres itu bulan depan.

Tumpuan pastinya diberikan kepada perebutan jawatan presiden di antara pemangku presiden Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid, bekas setiausaha agung Abdul Halim Mansor serta naib presiden Zainal Ismail daripada Lembaga Air Perak pada pemilihan 30 November itu.

Abdullah Sani, yang menerajui jawatan tertinggi kesatuan sekerja itu berikutan kematian presidennya Mohd Khalid Atan pada Januari lepas, mengesahkan bahawa beliau akan bertanding jawatan tertinggi itu.

Beliau memberitahu Bernama hari ini bahawa 54 individu akan bersaing merebut 13 jawatan penting pada pemilihan itu, yang akan disertai 600 anggota perwakilan daripada 132 kesatuan pada persidangan dua hari bermula 29 November depan di Dewan Sivik, Petaling Jaya.

Abdullah Sani berkata pencalonan bagi pemilihan MTUC, yang ditutup pada 4 Okt lepas, menunjukkan pertandingan bagi semua jawatan penting dan calon-calon boleh menarik diri seminggu sebelum pilihan raya.

Presiden Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja Telekom Mohd Jafar Abd Majid dicalonkan untuk jawatan timbalan presiden bersama-sama dengan Abdul Razak Md Hassan dan Datuk Loke Yim Pheng masing-masing daripada Kesatuan Pekerja Keretapi Tanah Melayu dan Kesatuan Perkhidmatan Perguruan Kebangsaan.

Beliau berkata jawatan setiausaha agung pula dijangka menyaksikan pertandingan tiga penjuru melibatkan setiausaha agung MTUC N.Gopal Krishnam, J.Solomon daripada Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-pekerja Bank (NUBE) dan Mohamed Dauzkaply Nor Ghazali daripada Kesatuan Amanah Ikthiar, masing-masing.

Penyandang Timbalan Setiausaha Agung A.Balasubramaniam pula dicabar A.Premkumar daripada Persatuan Eksekutif Maybank dan dua yang lain untuk mempertahankan jawatannya.

Seramai 23 anggota kesatuan dicalonkan untuk tiga jawatan naib presiden yang mewakili sektor awam, 13 dicalonkan bertanding tujuh jawatan naib presiden sektor swasta dan enam bertanding tiga jawatan naib presiden badan berkanun.    

MTUC mempunyai kira-kira 620,000 anggota daripada 162 kesatuan gabungan sektor awam, swasta dan badan berkanun.

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MTUC looks forward to reforms in labour laws with TPPA

INTERVIEW Mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and you would see critics slamming the free trade agreement, claiming that it would make drugs more expensive and undermine the sovereignty of the country, among others.

But contrary to its previous stance of opposing the world’s largest trade pact, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) is actually looking forward to its implementation.

“We are looking forward to some sort of reforms in the labour laws in the country,” said MTUC secretary-general N Gopal Kishnam in an interview with Malaysiakini.

This is because chapter 19 of the TPPA talks about labour rights, among others.

“In addition to chapter 19, there is a bilateral agreement signed between the Malaysian government and the United States where the US government is requesting Malaysia to reform its labour laws,” he added.

So when it comes to the perspective of workers, MTUC, therefore, does see some light at the end of the tunnel.

Gopal, however, noted how the Human Resources Ministry is now “very busy” to be in line with the requirements of the United States.

“What does that show? They are not respecting the needs of Malaysians.

“Someone from another part of the world is saying, they are running for it, except now they are lost, they don’t know where to start,” Gopal noted.

Despite opposition from various stakeholders against the TPPA, it was signed in New Zealand on Feb 4 this year after going through the negotiation process since 2010. The trade pact is expected to take effect in 2018.

Malaysia is one of the signatories, apart from the US, Brunei, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Chile, Peru and Mexico.

The TPPA aside, in the following excerpt, Gopal talks about the role of unions in the country as well as issues concerning workers.

‘Employment Act not enough’

What is the role of unions in Malaysia in safeguarding workers?

A very simple reason why workers are forming trade unions is simply because they believe that basic protection provided for through the Employment Act is not enough. So (it is) only through a trade union that they can enhance their benefits by way of collective bargaining or collective agreement in Malaysian terms.

Have these unions been effective in playing their role?

Looking at the Malaysian context, the government adapted the United Kingdom structure of trade unionism where they were divided into four categories, which means that trade unions are not freely formed.

Pre-independence, there was a general union. But after independence, the general union was structured in a way that you can only form a union based on either you are an industry, work or enterprise. So the government has already divided trade unionism in the country, so they are divided as such as they are not so united.

What has been the workers’ hope and confidence in unions as well as in MTUC which acts as the umbrella body?

We talk about MTUC being the umbrella body - from time to time, we raise all the workers’ challenges, as well as issues to the government’s attention.

One good example is the minimum wage issue; it’s the struggle of MTUC over the last more than 50 years. But through our concerted struggle, we managed to get, first time in the history of Malaysia, where the government introduced the Minimum Wage Act in 2012 and minimum wage was then introduced. It is the work of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress.

As well as the retirement age - prior to 2014, there was no retirement age in the Employment Act. It’s just that the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Act says you can withdraw your EPF savings at 55 - that became an understanding where an employee works until 55. Whereas now there is a law which states that the minimum retirement age is 60. That’s another achievement of MTUC which represents all the workers in the country.

Apart from this, from time to time we raise a lot of issues. Some have been taken care of, but there’s also many more that needs to be done in this country. At the moment we are negotiating with the Human Resources Ministry about employment insurance.

As of now, closing of operations overnight is becoming very rampant and common, we need to have some sort of, not to say protection - the employment insurance is not going to protect anyone - but at least it will assist those employees (who) have been retrenched until they get another employment.

What is MTUC’s stand on foreign workers’ hiring policy?

We are not denying that a country like Malaysia needs foreign workers. They should also be treated as workmen and given the same rights as Malaysian workers. But what we are seeing at the moment is employers are favouring foreign over local workers. That, MTUC finds it difficult to absolve them.

Four months ago, MTUC sent a protest memorandum to the Home Ministry and Human Resources Ministry when they wanted to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Bangladeshi government to bring in an additional 1.5 million foreign workers to the country.

Apart from the 2.2 million documented migrant workers, I think we have more than five million undocumented migrant workers and a majority of them enter the country with documents. (For) various reasons best known to the employers and migrant workers, they become undocumented.

I will easily say that the contract has been changed. What they have been promised in the country of origin, when they come here, the contracts have been changed; the terms are not the same especially in terms of wages.

And of course this group of workers is not rich. If they are rich they won’t come to Malaysia. They are poor, they sold or mortgaged their property to come here with the intention they can earn and go back to their country. But the promises made are not the same and they are in that desperate situation so they choose to work somewhere else to earn extra money because the levy is too high for them.

Employers are also deducting lodging provided by them after implementing minimum wage. There are also occasions where employers refuse to pay salary by withholding the salary for a few months. So how (do these workers) survive? So they disappear and work elsewhere, at least they would have some cash.

MTUC is requesting the government to resolve this undocumented migrant workers (issue) first before it brings in additional workers. Although the government has said that it is withholding the MOU (on the bringing in of 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers), if you go to the airport, all flights from the source country are still full.

Our fear is that, (since) foreign workers are coming to do some skilled and semi-skilled jobs, at least 400,000 Malaysian skilled workers would be affected by this. This is our concern, this is why, to stop employers from giving priority to foreign workers, MTUC is urging the government to have a system in which foreign workers should enjoy the same benefits as Malaysian workers, and for the levy to be paid by employers.

The argument is very simple. Employers are recruiting foreign workers because they are claiming there are not enough workers here. If that’s the argument, then the employer should pay the levy, not the poor foreign workers.

Also, on another issue related to forced labour where employers withhold the passports of foreign workers. They say that migrant workers complain that their passports were being stolen. One employer put forward this question to me and my answer is simple. Every day we read about money being stolen from ATMs but are banks stopping from installing additional ATMs? They are still installing, (and) they have to take preventive (action).

In this modern world, I don’t think that’s the reason to hold on to passports because they don’t want to give migrant workers the freedom to move around.

‘Major culprit recruitment agencies’

You said that all flights from source countries are full, this is based on...?

Just go there (airport) and stand, we can see all the flights. Sometimes we go somewhere and when we are coming back, traveling with them, most say they don’t know where they are going to work, but agents told them there is employment.

The major culprit in this process is recruitment agencies. At one time we had more than 270 agencies. With pressure from MTUC, it has been reduced to over 100. The government should abolish this third party contract system. If the employer is having difficulties to get workers, he or she must go in under his or her own name rather than a third party.

But the real issue in this situation is whether employers are willing to pay decent salary to workers. That’s why MTUC emphasises that the rights and benefits must be the same. For example, Social Security Organisation (Socso) is not extended to migrant workers; initially it was extended (to them). Migrant workers should be protected under Socso.

At the moment they are under the Workmen’s Compensation. According to our research, the compensation paid by this insurance is less than 5 percent of the premium they are collecting. (If) less than 5 percent, then what sort of protection are they giving? A bare minimum. There are cases where the dead body would have reached the country of origin and the family still needs to pay some money to the agent.

Medical cost has already taken up all the Workmen’s Compensation benefits. That’s why we are requesting - put them under Socso.

Also, why not deduct Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributions (for migrant workers)? When they go back to their country, they will withdraw their savings - that should not be a problem. Then the government will know the exact number of foreign workers. At the moment they don’t have (the figures). That’s why they should allow migrant workers to be under Socso and EPF.

Speaking of EPF contributions and benefits, is MTUC satisfied with the current practice?

When we checked with those retiring at the age of 60, their savings are not enough. The problem is not so much on the percentage, it is very much on what is Malaysian salary. Over the past 20 years, salaries have not increased. According to statistics, more than 65 percent of Malaysian families’ total income is less than RM3,500.

Of course if there is an opportunity, we would appreciate it if the employer’s contribution is improved. But we are not in the position to increase (our contribution).

(Also), we are not happy that the government decided to reduce the EPF contribution. The system has to be changed. The current system is that whenever there is reduction in contribution, those who are unhappy must write in. That is a wrong concept. If the system is reversed, EPF will know the percentage of those not willing to reduce (their contributions).

Malaysians at the end of the day remain as Malaysians, they don’t take the trouble to notify EPF (about their unhappiness). We are not happy with the reduction but when we raised the matter with EPF, they said this is the directive and if one is not happy, he or she should write in.

And we still maintain that EPF contributions should be withdrawn at the age of 55 although one can work until 60, so that workers can pay their house loans.

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