Umno Youth slams Fong over neglect of Bumi grads01 Mar 2007
Umno Youth Public Complaints Bureau chairman Datuk Subahan Kamal said the Human Resources Ministry should enforce a 30 per cent quota for Bumiputeras at all levels in the private sector and ensure that locals were given preference over foreigners
Subahan lambasted Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn yesterday for neglecting unemployed Bumiputera graduates and forcing them to resorted to driving taxis as they could not find employment in the private sector. He said the ministry had to take full responsibility for the graduates inability to find employment.
"We have highlighted the matter to the ministry before but officials have chosen to sweep the problem under the carpet," Subahan told reporters after highlighting allegations of discrimination against Bumiputera employees by Giant Hypermarket in Shah Alam.
He said the ministry should ensure that these graduates were given preference over foreigners.
Workers at the Giant hypermarket had complained that foreigners were being favoured over locals and that locals received lower wages. They had also claimed that there were few opportunities for career advancement in the company. The letter, sent to the Prime Minister’s Department, also alleged there were no Bumiputeras in top management positions in the company.
Giant Retail (M) Sdn Bhd chief operating officer Datuk John Coyle, who had earlier met Subahan over the matter, told reporters that 80 per cent of staff in the company were Bumiputeras. He said there were 123 Bumiputeras in lower and middle management with three in top management positions. Coyle said the company had to resort to foreigners for menial jobs. "We have always preferred Bumiputeras over foreigners," John Coyle said.
Subahan lambasted Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn yesterday for neglecting unemployed Bumiputera graduates and forcing them to resorted to driving taxis as they could not find employment in the private sector. He said the ministry had to take full responsibility for the graduates inability to find employment.
"We have highlighted the matter to the ministry before but officials have chosen to sweep the problem under the carpet," Subahan told reporters after highlighting allegations of discrimination against Bumiputera employees by Giant Hypermarket in Shah Alam.
He said the ministry should ensure that these graduates were given preference over foreigners.
Workers at the Giant hypermarket had complained that foreigners were being favoured over locals and that locals received lower wages. They had also claimed that there were few opportunities for career advancement in the company. The letter, sent to the Prime Minister’s Department, also alleged there were no Bumiputeras in top management positions in the company.
Giant Retail (M) Sdn Bhd chief operating officer Datuk John Coyle, who had earlier met Subahan over the matter, told reporters that 80 per cent of staff in the company were Bumiputeras. He said there were 123 Bumiputeras in lower and middle management with three in top management positions. Coyle said the company had to resort to foreigners for menial jobs. "We have always preferred Bumiputeras over foreigners," John Coyle said.
Subahan said his meeting with Coyle was fruitful and that some of the complaints raised by staff were unfounded.
Would foreigners wants to invest in Malaysia? UMNO is the law and they can impose any new rules and conditions on their business. They had to give 30% shares to Bumis, they had to employ 30% unemployable graduates, they had to pay Social Action Funds, political funds, contribute to many other funds, pay taxes and duties, pay, pay, pay, until UMNO feels it's enough. As for non-foreigners investors, you have to brace yourself for much harder treatment as you may have to have 51% Bumi shareholdings and all other conditions would be also 51% or more. In the words of Khairy, it could possibly be raised to 70%.
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Is 30% enough to remove the graduates unemployment problem? Even 100% will not be enough when investors started taking flight and businesses started crumbling.
They should be working to eradicate the root of the unemployment problems instead of showcasing bodohland's stupidities. Killing the cooks so that they have more share of food is beyond ordinary stupidity.
Interesting quality of people UMNO has.
God bless bodohland.
hey mav, heard there will be a snap election in aug....
responsible blogger disclaimer: this is purely a personal opinion, i am not trying to confuse anyone.
Another idiotic umno youth clown or court jester entertaining the members.
wa..cannot la like that...it's a bit terrible...how can force private sector to feed the deadweight. the "non-bumi tax" is getting unbearable. they must go and try la..why the gomen go and dumb down stpm with the matriculation? din they see this happening? sigh...
Just ponder for a sec-- what if Subahan the umno youth honco, upon his timely/untimely demise, went up to the Big-Mosque-in-the-Sky and demanded the enforcement of a 30 per cent quota of the houris there for the exclusive use of Malays only? That Malays are to be given preference over foreigners in all levels due to 'discrimination' against Bumiputeras?
What would the Keeper of the Big-Mosque-in-the-Sky do in this case?
Implement the NEP there? Scary thought, isn't it?
IMHO, they want to create another Ali-baba lower class to meet the "quota".
This will make the company pay "acting worker wages" e.g. RM50 per head per month. And this group of people can become "acting worker" for more than 30 company, so each will get RM1,500 per month DOING NOTHING. At the end, all private company in Bolehland will have more than 1 or 100+ (depends on size of the company) "dispatch boy" running on such wages.
Malaysia, Truly Boleh!!
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