Friday, September 26, 2014

COURT AWARD; lagi satu in-house union yang dikatakan tajaan syarikat bungkus. Award-1085-of-2014



MALAYSIA:::Education Ministry flayed for no minimum wage / 'Mana gaji minimum tukang cuci, jaga sekolah?'


Berapa orang wakil NGO berhimpun di hadapan pejabat Kementerian Pendidikan untuk mendapatkan penjelasan berhubung bayaran gaji minimum untuk tukang cuci dan pengawal keselamatan di sekolah.

MALAYSIA:::Prejudis kaum di sektor swasta


SATU kajian empiris menunjukkan wanita di Malaysia umumnya adalah 18 peratus lebih kaya daripada lelaki. Satu sebab ialah wanita lebih pandai menyimpan duit atau pendapatan berbanding lelaki.

Mungkin ada yang mempertikai, tapi inilah hasil kajian Dr Muhammed Abdul Khalid yang dicetak dalam buku The Colour of Inequality: Ethnicity, Class, Income and Wealth in Malaysia.

MALAYSIA:::Ex-NST editor urges Putrajaya to give true picture on income gap

A man pulls a cart full of goods to be carried across the waters of the Malaysia-Thailand border at Pengkalan Kubor on Monday. – The Malaysian Insider by Afif Abd Halim, September 24, 2014.A man pulls a cart full of goods to be carried across the waters of the Malaysia-Thailand border at Pengkalan Kubor on Monday.














Veteran journalist Datuk A.Kadir Jasin has cautioned Putrajaya against relying on the law of averages when determining income and wealth distribution in Malaysia.

Writing in the September 16 issue of the Malaysian Business magazine, he said using the law of averages was flawed, in referring to a recent survey on the rise in the household income of the average Malaysian.
Kadir’s remarks came following a statement by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar who said that people were now enjoying a better standard of living as average household income had risen from RM5,000 per month in 2012 to over RM5,900 this year.