PETALING JAYA, October 1 The due changes to work laws, which traffic unions contend would promote outsourcing, have been illegal as middlemen who subcontract work cannot be considered employers, Klang MP Charles Santiago has said.
He pronounced which an employer contingency be, by definition, a owner as well as user of a bureau as well as which an employment stipulate is usually valid if entered into with someone who wields control over tools as well as a workplace.
Outsourcing companies have been not owner-operators of factories so they cannot become employers, he told Malaysian Trade Unions Congress (MTUC) members during Wisma TWU here today.
Charles Santiago additionally pronounced currently a amendments would inspire recruitment by outsourcing, which he deemed a really dangerous trend. file pic
So you could be working for Company A though which Company A is no longer your employer because your employer, if this Bill goes through, will be Company S, which is a outsourcing company.
So if you have been hurt during a workplace, who will be responsible? he pronounced to rough cries of approval from a 300-odd MTUC members in attendance.
He cited an e.g. of a stipulate workman injured by a forklift during his place of work who paid RM4,000 to RM5,000 for treatment as a principal association had refused to admit him as an employee.
The amendments would additionally inspire recruitment by outsourcing, a really dangerous trend which would have outrageous implications for workers rights, Santiago additionally stressed.
He pronounced that, contrary to a Human Resources Ministrys assurance which ! a amendm ents would accelerate workers rights, such changes would usually erode existing rights as well as jeopardise their welfare.
Santiago combined which if a government was concerned over abuse by subcontractors, it should have mooted amendments to a Private Employment Agencies Act 1981, not a Employment Act 1955.
MTUC decided currently to ensue with its skeleton to picket Parliament upon Monday over due amendments to work laws, despite an 11th-hour assembly with a Human Resources Ministry.
The preference was done by MTUC legislature members after member from a umbrella bodys 250 traffic unions as well as a method unsuccessful to break a corner over Putrajayas skeleton to correct work laws after a four-hour prolonged forum.
MTUC president Mohd Khalid Atan pronounced he would mobilise during slightest 1,000 members to stage a protest opposite a due amendments, which have been expected to be tabled when Parliament is in session commencement Monday.
He combined which MTUC had additionally concluded to write to a method shortly asking for a Bill to be withdrawn completely.
The Human Resources Ministry, led by Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, previously pronounced it had consulted workers unions as well as employers associations eighteen times since early 2010 before entrance up with a amendments.
The method is set to benefaction a Bill to amend a Employment Act 1955 for a second celebration of a mass in a Dewan Rakyat.
The second celebration of a mass of a Employment (Amendment) Bill 2010 has been deferred twice previously.
Last October, a method withdrew a Bill from a second celebration of a mass to incorporate multiform changes as well as supplement serve amendments though has refused to hold serve details.
The Bill was first tabled upon July 8 last year as well as touched upon supplies involving sexual harassment in a workplace as well as a welfare of housekeepers.
It is believed a laws scheduled to be amended embody a Employment Act 1955, a Industrial ! Relation s Act 1967 as well as a Trade Union Act 1959.
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