Kuala Lumpur: More than 50,000 workers nationwide are still being paid less than the new minimum wage or RM1,500, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) reportedly said.
New Straits Times quoted MTUC secretary-general Kamarul Baharin Mansor saying that a large chunk of the guilty employers come from firms which are carrying out government contracts, but did not divulge more details.“We have a case in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, whereby an employer has yet to pay their workers' arrears since 2019 . We can't trace the employers because they are from an enterprise, so they can just give any address.
This resulted in the companies claiming they could only afford to pay the staff the previous minimum wage of RM1,200, as per the terms of the old contract. Kamarul urged the government to only award government contracts to concession companies so that action could be taken against them for any breach. “Concession companies are larger and they have their own board of directors. The company 'exists', so they are detectable,” he said.
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