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PETALING JAYA: While the Covid-19 virus may be blamed for the massive job losses following the closure of many businesses, various industry players opine that the government could have done more to reduce the blow.
Mohd Effendy Abdul Ghani, deputy president of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress, told theSun that the various lockdowns have undoubtedly caused this widespread job losses.
“The government must look at things with a ‘helicopter view’ and should not just implement a nationwide blanket lockdown because not all states are facing a surge of Covid-19 cases,” he added.
He pointed out that states such as Terengganu and Perlis are not facing massive numbers of infections and should not be punished with lockdowns.
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PETALING JAYA: Under the Code of Conduct for Industrial Harmony, salary cut is a strategy with the objective to create a win-win situation for employer and employee.
But to the employees, that is an irony, especially for those whose income has dropped so low that it is no longer possible to see their family through the month.
To be fair, businesses are not swimming in excess cash either. By adopting pay cuts, they will be able to carry on a little longer, hopefully to a point where the economy recovers and full operations can resume, Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Husman told
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