Category: Un-Employment

Relaxation of rules for civil servants to do business when there is growing incidence of conflict of interest situations involving high public officials will not enhance public confidence in the integrity and incorruptibility of government leaders and officials

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Seri Rambai Dap Branch official opening dinner held at Taman Seri Rambai, Bukit Mertajam, on Saturday, 22.8.1987 AT 9 p.m.

Relaxation of rules for civil servants to do business when there is growing incidence of conflict of interest situations involving high public officials will not enhance public confidence in the integrity and incorruptibility of government leaders and officials

It was reported today that the government has relaxed rules for civil servants to engage in business. Under the new Public Service Department directive, civil servants can now set up family-holding companies to administer property-including capital, buildings or land-owned by them and their immediate families. They are also allowed to sit on the boards of these companies subject to certain conditions imposed by their departments. Continue reading Relaxation of rules for civil servants to do business when there is growing incidence of conflict of interest situations involving high public officials will not enhance public confidence in the integrity and incorruptibility of government leaders and officials

DAP calls on Labour Minister to establish a Board of Inquiry to inquire in all proposed cases of mass retrenchment of workers

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday, 8.9.1985

DAP calls on Labour Minister to establish a Board of Inquiry to inquire in all proposed cases of mass retrenchment of workers

Mass retrenchment of workers has become a major labour problem in Malaysia which has not received the serious government attention it deserved. Continue reading DAP calls on Labour Minister to establish a Board of Inquiry to inquire in all proposed cases of mass retrenchment of workers

Concerned about the sharp increase in the incidence of violence among youths all over the country.

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, to the DAP Youth Council Meeting at Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 7th August 1975 at 8 p.m.

Concerned about the sharp increase in the incidence of violence among youths all over the country.

It is a matter of grave concern that recently, there has been a sharp increase in the number of incidents involving among youths and teenagers in the country.

Towns which had been peaceful have been turned into warring grounds between rival gangs involving mostly teenagers. In fact, in some towns, thins have become so bad that in certain areas of these towns, the people dare not go to for fear of being involved in these incidents of violence. Continue reading Concerned about the sharp increase in the incidence of violence among youths all over the country.

DAP calls on Minister of Labour, Lee San Choon, to set up a unit to find jobs for Malaysians who have resigned from Singapore Police and Armed forces and returned to Malaysia

DAP calls on Minister of Labour, Lee San Choon, to set up a unit to find jobs for Malaysians who have resigned from Singapore Police and Armed forces and returned to Malaysia

I have come across large numbers of Malaysian youths who had resigned from their jobs in the Singapore Police or armed forces and returned to Malaysia, but who have continued to be unemployed for over a year, and in some cases, for over two years.

These Malaysian youths, who are mostly in their twenties, had a secure job in the Singapore Police Force or the armed forces. However, in 1972 and 1973, the Malaysian government said that Malaysians serving in the police or armed forces of foreign countries are not loyal to the country, and their citizenships may be withdrawn. Continue reading DAP calls on Minister of Labour, Lee San Choon, to set up a unit to find jobs for Malaysians who have resigned from Singapore Police and Armed forces and returned to Malaysia

DAP calls for the establishment of a government unemployment fund to help the unemployed

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Parliamentary Candidates for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP General Elections Public Rally at Alor Star on Monday, 19th August 1974 at 9 p.m.

1. DAP calls for the establishment of a government unemployment fund to help the unemployed

Unemployment is one of the major socio-economic problems in Malaysia. The various development plans have failed to reduce the rate of unemployment in the country. The government’s stated 7% unemployment is a gross underestimation and the unemployment rate easily exceeds 10% Continue reading DAP calls for the establishment of a government unemployment fund to help the unemployed

Unemployment the government’s biggest failure

Speech in DAP Secretary-General,Mr.Lim Kit Siang, at the re-election of the new Perak State Standing Sub-Committee in Ipoh on Monday, 29th March 1971 at 5.30 p.m.

Unemployment-the government’s biggest failure

Despite the government’s much-waunted multi-pronged economic policies, the single most important economic and social problem continues to be unemployment, which condemns hundreds of thousands of Malaysians to a sentence of poverty, social humiliation and disgrace.

In 1969, when the Ipoh Municipal Council wanted to fill 21 vacancies for labourers, over 2,000 people jammed the Municipality Padang for the posts. In the same year, when a new hotel in Kuala Lumpur advertised for 110 vacancies for waiters, receptionists, cashiers, bellboys and supervisors, over 4,500 people, including 3,000 School Certificate holders, applied for the positions. Continue reading Unemployment the government’s biggest failure

Government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity

Speech by Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka (DAP) Mr.Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Ra’ayat on the debate on the Royal Address from the Throne on 9.3.1971

Mr.Speaker, Sir, His Majesty, the Yang di-Peruan Agong, in his Royal Address, spoke of the government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity.

We do not quarrel with these objectives. But there is considerable room for disagreement as to whether government policies and measures are aimed at these objectives, or whether, on the converse, they can only aggravate economic inequality and undermine national solidarity and unity.

Despite the government’s multi-pronged economic policies, the single most important economic and social problem continues to be unemployment, which condemns hundreds of thousands of Malaysians to a sentences of poverty, social humiliation and disgrace. Continue reading Government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity