News about staff

WASHINGTON (March 19): US President Joe Biden on Thursday issued a proclamation ordering flags to be flown at half-staff (pictured) to honour the victims of the shootings in the Atlanta Metropolitan area, reported Xinhua news agency.

KUCHING (Jan 26): Sarawak health director Dr Chin Zin Hing revealed that a total of 53 medical personnel from four hospitals in the state have tested positive for Covid-19, reported Dayak Daily.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): Staff at the Royal Selangor Golf Club on Jalan Tun Razak are now being quarantined after contact with a member who tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, Malaysiakini reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 4): More hotel closures seem to be the order of the day due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the latest casualties are three Swiss Garden International (SGI) hotels across the country, the New Straits Times (NST) reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 28): The Four Points by Sheraton Sandakan (pictured) will shutter permanently and the services of all its employees will be terminated by the end of this month, reported the Malay Mail today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 21): Genting Malaysia Bhd is believed to have announced to its employees that the casino group needs to undertake an unprecedented sizable retrenchment exercise, according to sources.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 14): Hatten Group will be closing its non-performing business units, which would see affected employees being placed on temporary lay-off scheme until the global economic situation recovers, upon which the company will arrange for their potential return.

PETALING JAYA (April 24): Sunway Malls will be giving its non-essential retailers an option to operate shorter hours after the Movement Control Order (MCO) ends, which is currently scheduled to end on May 12.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 11): Higher Education Minister Noraini Ahmad’s proposal to promote the use of Tiktok among youths during the movement control order (MCO) period could jeopardise youths’ mastery of language, said the Universiti Malaya Academic Staff Union (Pkaum) in a Malaysiakini report last yesterday.

Below is a press release by the ECM Libra Foundation and Ormond Group KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): The ECM Libra Foundation, together with the support of the Ormond Group, will provide free accommodation for health care workers from the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital (HKL).