PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) claims it has received many complaints of employers failing to abide by the amendments to the Employment Act since its implementation a week ago.
MTUC secretary-general Kamarul Baharin Mansor said it has received complaints from workers and unions, and that one of the issues they brought up was failure to implement the 45-hour work week. “Employers did not make the necessary preparations because they were hoping that the government would postpone the implementation of the amendments again,” he said in a statement today.
Kamarul urged the human resources ministry to conduct checks on all companies to ensure they were abiding by the amendments to the Act, for the sake of the workers’ welfare. He called for employers who fail to implement the amendments to face strict action, even court charges. The amendments to the Act are aimed at safeguarding the welfare of workers and to bring local regulations in line with the International Labour Organization convention.
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