Category: Employment

Call on Dr.Mahathir Mohamed to intervene and end the unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Hell Estate’

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, August 26, 1983:

Call on Dr.Mahathir Mohamed to intervene and end the unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Hell Estate’

The Prime Minister, Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, should intervene and end the most unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Helda Hell Estate’, where contract workers had been subjected to illegal detention, criminal assault and various forms of labour exploitation and human indignities. Continue reading Call on Dr.Mahathir Mohamed to intervene and end the unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Hell Estate’

DAP to censure Minister of Labour, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, in the budget session of Parliament for his multiple failures to protect contract workers from the abuses and evils of exploitation

Speech by Par1iamtntary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the inugural meeting of the DAP Nationa1 Estates Committee held in DAP Headquarters, Petaling Java on Sunday, 14th August 1983 at 2.30 p.m.

DAP to censure Minister of Labour, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, in the budget session of Parliament for his multiple failures to protect contract workers from the abuses and evils of exploitation

The Selancar Empat Felda ‘Hell Estate’, where contract workers were subject to wrongful confinement, illegal detention, forced labour, criminal assault arid denial of wages for four long years, is merely the tip of on iceberg of the widespread abuse and evil of contract labour system Malaysia. Continue reading DAP to censure Minister of Labour, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, in the budget session of Parliament for his multiple failures to protect contract workers from the abuses and evils of exploitation

DAP calls for clarification on proposed amendment to termination benefits regulations

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, April 29, 1983:

DAP calls for clarification on proposed amendment to termination benefits regulations.

The Labour Minister, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, said at the inaugural meeting of the Electricity Industry Employers’ Association yesterday that the government was gazetting an amendment to Regulation 8 of the Employment (Termination and Lay-Off Benefits) Regulation to disallow workers to opt for payment of termination benefits following a change of ownership of their firm if the new owners offer them employment on terms and conditions no less favourable than existing ones. Continue reading DAP calls for clarification on proposed amendment to termination benefits regulations

Employment (Amendment) Ordinance

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Friday, 20th June 1980, on the Employment Ordinance (Amendment) Bill 1980)

The Deputy Minister for Labour, Dato K. Pathmanaban, said when moving the second reading of the Employment Ordinance (Amendment) Bill 1980 yesterday that the amendments proposed in this Bill are “progressive advances in labour standards and social legislation” in Malaysia.

His self-praise is rather extravagant and unrelated to the facts. Although I concede, and welcome, several improvements in the Employment Ordinance provision, like the proposal to include bonus as part of ‘wages’, the extension of period of notice of termination of service, triple pay for overtime on rest days increase of paid public holidays from 7 days to 10 days in a year, increase of paid sick leave for another four days for those with two years service, to five years service, another eight days with more than five years service; increase in paid annual leave, etc., they are rather nominal and in many cases, had not even measured up to the demands we in the DAP had in the past made inside and outside the House. Continue reading Employment (Amendment) Ordinance

Lim Kit Siang writes to Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to ensure that the government does not discriminate between employers and employees in the enforcement of laws

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Saturday, 4th August 1979:

Lim Kit Siang writes to Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to ensure that the government does not discriminate between employers and employees in the enforcement of laws.

I have written to the Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, asking him to ensure that the government does not discriminate between employers and employees in the enforcement of laws. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang writes to Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to ensure that the government does not discriminate between employers and employees in the enforcement of laws

Call on MAS management to take back the 33 MAS employees who have not been re-employed

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, 17th July 1979:

1. Call on MAS management to take back the 33 MAS employees who have not been re-employed

Following the MAS-AEU dispute, and the full resumption of MAS services after the deregistration of the Airline Employees Union, the MAS management had taken back all its employees except for 31 workers. Continue reading Call on MAS management to take back the 33 MAS employees who have not been re-employed

Security of Work

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on 13th June 1979)

DAP seeks security of work, retrenchment, redundancy and retirement benefits for workers.

Pursuant to Standing Order 49(1), I rise to move:

“That this House pursuant to Standing Order 49(1) grants leave to the Hon’ble Lim Kit Siang to introduce a Private Member’s Bill intituled Employment Act 1979 (Amendment) to amend the Employment Ordinance (1955) to provide: Continue reading Security of Work

Restoration Of Workers’s Political Rights

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat when introducing a Private Members Bill to amend the Trade Union Ordinance on 11th June 1979)

DAP calls for restoration of the rights of trade union officials to hold office in political parties

I rise to seek leave of the House to introduce a private member’s bill, and my motion reads: Continue reading Restoration Of Workers’s Political Rights

DAP calls on Labour Minister, Lee San Choon, to intervene and end of the lock-out by Australian-Malaysian timber factory in Klang and restore employment to some 500 workers

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang:

DAP calls on Labour Minister, Lee San Choon, to intervene and end of the lock-out by Australian-Malaysian timber factory in Klang and restore employment to some 500 workers

Yesterday, accompanied by the National Vice Chairman of the DAP Socialist Youth, Sdr. Madhavan Nair, I visited the 500 workers who were locked out by the timber industry, Corinthian Industries (M) Sdn. Bhd. at 4 m.s. Jalan Kapar, KLANG. Continue reading DAP calls on Labour Minister, Lee San Choon, to intervene and end of the lock-out by Australian-Malaysian timber factory in Klang and restore employment to some 500 workers

DAP to move a vote of no confidence against Dato Lee San Choon for depriving workers of their legal rights to retrenchment and retirement benefits

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at the inauguration of the Penang DAP Labour Bureau in Penang on Saturday, 10th Sept. 1977 at 8 p.m.

DAP to move a vote of no confidence against Dato Lee San Choon for depriving workers of their legal rights to retrenchment and retirement benefits

The employers in Malaysia are very powerful and can get the Minister of Labour and the Ministry of Labour official to serve their interests.

In July last year, the Minister of Labour, Dato Lee San Choon, introduces the Employment (Amendment) Bill which, among other things, abolished the limited rights of workers to retrenchment and retirement benefits. Continue reading DAP to move a vote of no confidence against Dato Lee San Choon for depriving workers of their legal rights to retrenchment and retirement benefits