Category: Employment

Barisan Nasional plot to register about 2,000 Malay workers resident and working in Bayan Baru as voters in Tanjong Bungah state assembly constituency as part of the Gerakan Save-Kch Tsu Koon-Operation

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at Penang DAP Hqrs on Saturday, July 16, 1994 at 11.30 a.m.

Barisan Nasional plot to register about 2,000 Malay workers resident and working in Bayan Baru as voters in Tanjong Bungah state assembly constituency as part of the Gerakan Save-Kch Tsu Koon-Operation

This press conference is called to expose a Barisan Nasional plot to register about 2,000 workers resident and working in Bayan Baru as voters in Tanjong Bungah state assembly constituency as part of the Gerakan Save-Koh Tsu Koon Operation. Continue reading Barisan Nasional plot to register about 2,000 Malay workers resident and working in Bayan Baru as voters in Tanjong Bungah state assembly constituency as part of the Gerakan Save-Kch Tsu Koon-Operation

Government should ‘Look to Japan’ in the current review of 19 labour laws related to employment, industrial relations and workers’ welfare

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Seminar, on ‘Labour and the Current Challenges organised by the DAP Labour Bureau at TWU hall, Petaling Jaya on Sunday, May 29, 1994 at 9.30 a.m.

Government should ‘Look to Japan’ in the current review of 19 labour laws related to employment, industrial relations and workers’ welfare

The Minister for Human Resources, Datuk Lim Ah Lek, announced last month that a tripartite committee had been set up to review all 19 labour laws related to employment, industrial relations and workers’ welfare in the country. Continue reading Government should ‘Look to Japan’ in the current review of 19 labour laws related to employment, industrial relations and workers’ welfare

DAP calls on Cabinet to do justice to the 28,000 Telekom non-executive employees on the Employees Share Option Scheme (ESOS) by allocating another 30 million shares at par from the government stake in Telekoms

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Tuesday, February 22, 1994:

DAP calls on Cabinet to do justice to the 28,000 Telekom non-executive employees on the Employees Share Option Scheme (ESOS) by allocating another 30 million shares at par from the government stake in Telekoms

DAP calls on the Cabinet to do justice to the 28,000 Telekom non-executive employees on the Employees. Share Option Scheme (SSOS) by allocating another 30 million shares at par from the government stake in Telekoms. Continue reading DAP calls on Cabinet to do justice to the 28,000 Telekom non-executive employees on the Employees Share Option Scheme (ESOS) by allocating another 30 million shares at par from the government stake in Telekoms

Antah Biwater has a duty to convince the engineering community that there is no available local professional of required experience and expertise to justify employment of expatriates

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, on Thursday, 13.8.1987 in Petaling Jaya.

Antah Biwater has a duty to convince the engineering community that there is no available local professional of required experience and expertise to justify employment of expatriates.

Yesterday, a four-man DAP Parliamentary Group comprising Sdr. Lee Lam Thye, DAP Deputy Security-General and MP for Bukit Bintang, Dr. Tan Seng Giaw, DAP Vice Chairman and MP for Kepong, and Dr. Eng Seng Chai, MP for Petaling and myself met the Chairman of Antah Biwater, Tunku Naquiyuddin ibni Tunku Jaafar and the Managing Director of Antah Holdings, Tunku Imran ibni Tunku Jaafar, for an hour-long discussion on the employment of expatriate engineers and professionals in the $1.4 billion rural water supply scheme project. Continue reading Antah Biwater has a duty to convince the engineering community that there is no available local professional of required experience and expertise to justify employment of expatriates

UMNO Youth has become a ‘pressure-defusing group’ to help Antah Biwater in the controversy in the displacement of local engineers and professionals and DAP is disappointed by UMNO Youth’s defence of Antah Biwater

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 6th August 1987:

UMNO Youth has become a ‘pressure-defusing group’ to help Antah Biwater in the controversy in the displacement of local engineers and professionals and DAP is disappointed by UMNO Youth’s defence of Antah Biwater

In the controversy over the displacement of Malaysian engineers and professionals by the Antah Biwater Joint Venture project for $1.4 billion contract for 174 rural water supply schemes, UMNO Youth appears to be playing the unique role of a ‘pressure-defusing group’. Continue reading UMNO Youth has become a ‘pressure-defusing group’ to help Antah Biwater in the controversy in the displacement of local engineers and professionals and DAP is disappointed by UMNO Youth’s defence of Antah Biwater

Call on Government to freeze issue of work permits for British expatriates for Antah Bawater scheme

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, August 5, 1987.

Call on Government to freeze issue of work permits for British expatriates for Antah Bawater scheme

There has rightly been widespread concerm at the indiscriminate issue of work permits by the immigration authorities for the entry of British expatriates for the $104 billion Antah Biwater rural water supply contract. Continue reading Call on Government to freeze issue of work permits for British expatriates for Antah Bawater scheme

Call on Transport Minister, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, to ensure that the ‘package deal’ to re-award traffic rights held by Mac Air would include assurance of re-employment of former Mac Air pilots and engineers

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and assemblyman fro Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, Sept.15, 1986:

Call on Transport Minister, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, to ensure that the ‘package deal’ to re-award traffic rights held by Mac Air would include assurance of re-employment of former Mac Air pilots and engineers.

Reports that MAS might be given the traffic rights to operate the lucrative Kuala Lumpur route, formerly held by Mac Air which had collapsed, has raised anxieties of former Mac air pilots and engineers as MAS has indicated that it would not employ the Mac Air pilots. Continue reading Call on Transport Minister, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, to ensure that the ‘package deal’ to re-award traffic rights held by Mac Air would include assurance of re-employment of former Mac Air pilots and engineers

DAP calls on MAKUWASA to repay EPF the $10 million with interest for share transactions which it bought from EPF at below market-price

by DAP Secretary-General and Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 2.6.1986:

DAP calls on MAKUWASA to repay EPF the $10 million with interest for share transactions which it bought from EPF at below market-price

The mysterious $2 company, MAKUWASA, bought 13 share counters from the Employees Provident Fund from August 1984 to March 1985 at below market prices, causing the EPF to lose $10 million profit which should have accrued to the credit of the five million EPF contributors. Continue reading DAP calls on MAKUWASA to repay EPF the $10 million with interest for share transactions which it bought from EPF at below market-price

Call on the Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Musa Hitam, to explain the status of the 300,000 illegal Indonesia immigrants in Malaysia

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Cameron Highlands DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner held at Cameron Highlands on Saturday, 4.8.1984 at 8 pm

Call on the Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Musa Hitam, to explain the status of the 300,000 illegal Indonesia immigrants in Malaysia

Four days ago, the Deputy Home Affairs Minister, Radzi Sheikh Ahmad, announced that the first batch of 100 Indonesia workers to be recruited under the recently-concluded labour pact between Malaysia and Indonesia will arrive here in August. Continue reading Call on the Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Musa Hitam, to explain the status of the 300,000 illegal Indonesia immigrants in Malaysia

DAP greatly disappointed by the failure of MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP Ministers and MP to publicity declare their objections the Malaysian-Indonesian agreement to legalize illegal Indonesian immigrants

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 7.6.1984:

DAP greatly disappointed by the failure of MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP Ministers and MP to publicity declare their objections the Malaysian-Indonesian agreement to legalize illegal Indonesian immigrants.
Last Sunday, at the DAP Malacca Socialist Youth seminar on the Problems and Prospects of Malaysia in the 1990s, I challenged MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and MIC Ministers and MPs to declare within 48 hours whether they dared to join DAP MPs in the July 16 meeting of Parliament to move a joint motion objecting to the Malaysia-Indonesian agreement to legalise illegal Indonesian immigrants. Continue reading DAP greatly disappointed by the failure of MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP Ministers and MP to publicity declare their objections the Malaysian-Indonesian agreement to legalize illegal Indonesian immigrants