Category: Employment

Trade Unions and Politics: An Inseparable Relationship.

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, to the National Union of Employees of Unions of Petaling Jaya, Balai Raya, on Sunday, 17th October, 1976,at 10.00 a.m.

Trade Unions and Politics: An Inseparable Relationship.

Recently, trade unions have been very much in the news firstly over the CUEPACS claim for government implementation of the Ibrahim Ali Commission revised Report, an secondly the Trade Union demand for changes in the labour laws. Continue reading Trade Unions and Politics: An Inseparable Relationship.

Job security for workers

I rise under Standing Orders 49 to move a motion to seek leave of the House to introduce a private member’s bill named Employment (Unfair Dismissal) Bill 1976.

The purpose of this Bill is to guarantee to the worker the security of tenure in his job by conferring upon him the right not to be abruptly or unfairly dismissed, and the right to reinstatement or compensation for such unfair dismissals.

At present, a worker has no job security as his services can be properly terminated provided the employer complies with the requisite minimum notice stipulated by Section 12(3) of the Employment Ordinance 1955. Continue reading Job security for workers

The 1976 Employment (Amendment) Bill – management’s delight and worker’s curse

The 1976 Employment (Amendment) Bill is a typical example of what is wrong with the Malaysian nation today, and why Malaysia is today faced with a crisis of identity and survival, marked by stepped-up communist guerrilla activities in both the towns and jungles, while social, economic and political unrest grow apace in the country.

There is no end to governmental profession of concern for the poor and the weaker sections of the population, who represent the majority of Malaysian, but governmental actions often belie the sincerity of these declarations. Hence, the rich grows richer while the poor becomes poorer year after year of government development efforts. Continue reading The 1976 Employment (Amendment) Bill – management’s delight and worker’s curse

Minimum Wage Law for Workers

Since the resumption of Parliaments in February 1971 till now, one of the constant subjects my colleagues and I in the DAP have kept pressing for inside this Chamber is for the enactment of legislation to fix basic minimum wages for workers, to ensure that they and their dependents enjoy the basic human needs of food, clothing, housing and schooling.

Unfortunately, this proposal, to my knowledge, had never received the serious consideration of the government, probably for the simple reason that there is not a single Cabinet Minister who had a labour past, and who understands and sympathises with the sufferings, aspirations and hopes of the working class. Continue reading Minimum Wage Law for Workers

DAP calls on the Minister of Labour and Manpower to introduce legislation in the July

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the DAP National Estates Sub-Committee held at Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 4th July 1974 at 8 p.m.

DAP calls on the Minister of Labour and Manpower to introduce legislation in the July meeting of Parliament to abolish contract system in estates

The growing practice in the estates of employing workers on monthly contracts is one of the major social evils in the country, for it is through this contract system that workers are grossly exploited. Continue reading DAP calls on the Minister of Labour and Manpower to introduce legislation in the July

If the DAP captures the Perak, Penang or any other State government, Nantah and Formosan graduates will be employed on the State, City Council, Municipal, Town Council levels at par with graduates from Malaysian universities

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a fund-raising tea party at Ipoh which organised by Perak DAP Chinese Education sub-committee in aid of Chinese Independent Secondary Schools on Sunday, 26th May 1974 at 10 a.m.

1. If the DAP captures the Perak, Penang or any other State government, Nantah and Formosan graduates will be employed on the State, City Council, Municipal, Town Council levels at par with graduates from Malaysian universities

For over a decade, the problem of the recognition of the degrees and diplomas of over 10,000 Malaysians who graduated from Nantah and Formosan universities and colleges have remained an outstanding problem. Continue reading If the DAP captures the Perak, Penang or any other State government, Nantah and Formosan graduates will be employed on the State, City Council, Municipal, Town Council levels at par with graduates from Malaysian universities

Call on the Government to set up a special government department to give new economic opportunities to the over 100,000 retrenched estate labourers in Malaysia

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the Tamil drama ‘Born To Live’ organised by the Ipoh Arts Society in aid of the education of children of retrenched estate labourers held at Ipoh Town Hall on Saturday 9th Dec. 1972 at 8.30 p.m.

Call on the Government to set up a special government department to give new economic opportunities to the over 100,000 retrenched estate labourers in Malaysia

Firstly, I want to thank the Ipoh Arts Society for the kind invitation to me to come and say a few words at the opening of this evening’s Tamil drama in aid of the educational needs of children of retrenched estate labourers. Continue reading Call on the Government to set up a special government department to give new economic opportunities to the over 100,000 retrenched estate labourers in Malaysia

DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the nation’s labour laws to remove anti-labour clauses and to safeguard and protect the right of workers to a just share of the fruits of their own labour

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to the Malacca DAP State Sub-Committee Meeting in Malacca on Tuesday, 3rd October 1972 at 5 p.m

DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the nation’s labour laws to remove anti-labour clauses and to safeguard and protect the right of workers to a just share of the fruits of their own labour

The workers are the most neglected lot under the Second Malaysia Plan. There has been increasing labour unrest since the launching of the Second Malaysia Plan, and in the last few months, industrial disputes have come thick and fast. Continue reading DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the nation’s labour laws to remove anti-labour clauses and to safeguard and protect the right of workers to a just share of the fruits of their own labour