PETALING JAYA: Regulation pertaining to paid internship programme is needed to address inequality faced by undergraduates, says former youth and sports minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman.
He said students were merely asking for a living allowance that would allow them to cover their core expenses while undergoing industrial training, and not demanding for a minimum wage of RM1,500.“Imagine the underprivileged students from the rural areas that have to go to major cities for their internships.
“While we acknowledge that most companies do pay their interns, others simply treat the interns as free labour,” said Syed Saddiq. Universiti Malaya’s final year student Rashifa Aljunied, who advocated for paid internships in her campus, went viral online last week. He said that one of the requirements to register for the programme was to ensure that interns were paid a monthly allowance.
Its president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman said that while employers should not be required to pay interns as they were not covered by labour laws in the country, some still provided monthly allowance at their discretion to cover the interns’ expenses.
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