News about MTUC

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): After the government enforced work-from-home (WFH) rules for employees at the management and supervisory levels across the private and public sectors in areas under the conditional movement control order (CMCO), and later amended the rules to allow only 10% of them to work on-site, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said the instructions seemed vague, difficult to follow and had generated confusion.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 31): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) urged the government to take actions on the employers who failed to improve the living conditions of migrant workers in all sectors, reported Malay Mail.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 22): Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) president Abdul Halim Mansor wants the government to “enforce a ratio of locals to foreigners that’s 10-1” in the work force, FMT reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 8): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has called on the government not to endorse the ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), irrespective of the position the previous administration had taken on the free trade agreement.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 4): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said today the government and Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) must compel banks to extend the loan repayment moratorium by six more months or see record asset forfeitures involving borrowers.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) is urging the government to immediately replace the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) i-Lestari withdrawal scheme with RM500 monthly cash aid for workers in the B40 income group, after it was revealed that some fund members had already exhausted their Account 2 after two months.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 6): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has raised concerns over what it described as scant details the government has offered in Plan Jana Semula Ekonomi Negara or the short-term Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana) announced by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 26): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said today it fully supports Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Dr N Ganabaskaran's call on employers to improve the poor living conditions of foreign workers in the country and recognise the fact that merely testing their employees would be insufficient to prevent an outbreak of Covid-19.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 16): The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has called on the government to come out with clear guidelines and directives on the screening of workers for Covid-19, saying a lot of confusion remains on the ground.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) secretary-general J Solomon has urged the government to ensure that “irresponsible” employers threatening mass retrenchments during the movement control order (MCO) are reined in, Malaysiakini reported today.