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Lim Lip Eng

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:39 AM PDT

Lim Lip Eng


Greatpac & Segambut MP distribute 150 Jasa Eco biodegradable packs at TTDI market

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:14 AM PDT

Lim Lip Eng (left) and Douglas Tan (second from left) distributing the green goodie bags goodie bags at Taman Tun Dr Ismail market. — Picture by Chan Wai Yew
News from: http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/5jeg/Article (By R. Indumathi, 22/6/2011)
About 150 Jasa Eco gift packs containing biodegradable products were distributed to the public on "No Plastic Day".
The bags were given by Wawasan TKH Holdings Bhd's subsidiary Greatpac Sdn Bhd staff and Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng at Taman Tun Dr Ismail market.
Greatpac has created the Jasa Eco brand biodegradable containers, plates and cutlery since February this year. The company is the first to successfully produce a completely biodegradable and environment-friendly product for food packaging in Malaysia.
"We are targeting the hawkers to use our products," said Greatpac senior manager Douglas Tan. "Compared with the normal styrofoam boxes, which costs 11 sen each, a biodegradable Jasa Eco packet costs only 5 to 6 sen."
Jasa Eco products are made from corn starch, palm and sugarcane fibre.
Related news: Biodegradable foam food packaging an alternative to styrofoam
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/6/22/central/8931346&sec=central

Lim Kit Siang

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:33 PM PDT

Lim Kit Siang


Bersih rally – chill down BN’s spine

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:30 PM PDT

By Jeswan Kaur June 22, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today There is something about the July 9 rally to be held by election watchdog Bersih 2.0 that has left the Barisan Nasional (BN) government shivering in its pants. Otherwise, there would be no reason for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his bandwagon of cronies [...]

Motions on money politics and ‘corrupt’ CM rejected

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:32 PM PDT

By Joseph Tawie June 23, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today KUCHING: The Sarawak Legislative Assembly Speaker Asfia Awang Nasar yesterday rejected bids by opposition DAP to debate money politics in the recent state elections and allegations of corruption against Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. Citing various ground to support his decision, Asfia rejected Opposition Leader Wong [...]

Land Bill aimed at ‘punishing natives’

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:19 PM PDT

By Joseph Tawie June 23, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today KUCHING: The bill to bar Sarawak natives from seeking legal redress for grievances involving their native customary rights (NCR) to land is draconian, says Sarawak DAP. State chairman Wong Ho Leng said the move clearly showed that the government of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud [...]

Bersih 2.0 — is there a third alternative?

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:58 PM PDT

By Anas Zubedy June 23, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 23 — Bersih 2.0 is scheduled for July 9 in the KL city centre. Even now supporters are rallying people to take part. The news has gone viral; many are excited. At the other end, Perkasa wants to retaliate by having a counter-rally with [...]

Dr M blames press for worsening race relations

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:58 PM PDT

By Shannon Teoh | June 23, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad blamed press freedom today for poor race relations which, he claimed, had worsened since he stepped down as prime minister in 2003. He said that this was because press freedom has allowed racial and religious tension [...]

Ambiga receives SMS death threat

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:57 PM PDT

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal | June 23, 2011 The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Bersih chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has received a death threat via text message which was also sent this morning to reporters and some members of the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih). The text message warned Ambiga as [...]

Bersih 2.0: Why I will march

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:55 PM PDT

By June Rubis June 23, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 23 — We can only look back at our past to recognise the pivotal points that have brought us to where we are today. Today, I am blessed to have a boss who supports and shares the same passions as I do: playing a [...]

We’ve made a big mistake, says Lynas boss

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:54 PM PDT

Malaysiakini | Jun 23, 11 Lynas boss Nicholas Curtis has conceded that his company made the mistake of failing to adequately engage the community in Kuantan over fears of radioactive waste from its controversial rare earth plant. “We made a mistake, and it was a big mistake, of thinking that because we have met the [...]

Through my aging eyes: We are at the mercy of Nature

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:43 PM PDT

By Edwin Bosi When I visited Tambatuon village in Kadamaian Kota Belud in April 2011 with YB Jimmy Wong and DAP Sabah political leaders it was actually partly a fact-finding mission. We heard so much of Tambatuon through the news media, their fight for survival against a proposed dam that will in the word of [...]

Chun Wai should not be blamed

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:25 PM PDT

By bujai | June 22, 2011 The readers’ poll on ‘Bersih 2.0′ which was carried by The Star newspaper drew mixed reactions from politicians, the media and blog writers. Some said it was tantamount to The Star throwing its full support for the planned rally next month while others described it as an immodesty. To [...]

Improving The Odds For Our Disadvantaged Students

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:45 PM PDT

By M. Bakri Musa Students from a disadvantaged background face many challenges; thus it is not a surprise that they lag academically. This has always been true and accepted as normal. The consequence to this acceptance is that the students' disadvantaged background becomes too ready an excuse for teachers and policymakers not to address the [...]

So True – but why you can’t believe everything on Internet

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:42 PM PDT

Letter Now THIS is why you can’t believe any picture you see on the Internet! The guy who did these pictures did an awesome job! And “they” can do the same thing with text and Video so we must be careful what we believe and send on as fact.

Scholarships for those who earn and need it

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Yap Mun Ching The Sun 23 June 2011 AFTER many years of opaque silence, the debate over tertiary education scholarships has finally boiled over with public demands for the list of renegade Public Services Department Scholarship (PSD) holders to be published and at least one father threatening to sue a corporate foundation for not giving [...]

Najib says 1 Malaysia more than just rhetoric

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:37 AM PDT

By Shannon Teoh June 22, 201 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — Two years after coming to office with his 1 Malaysia concept, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today that the slogan was more than empty rhetoric but a policy that will improve the lives of the public. He said the 1 [...]

Kit Siang offers to prove Ibrahim Ali’s Chinese threat

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:35 AM PDT

By Clara Chooi June 22, 201 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — DAP's Lim Kit Siang offered today to deliver a copy of Datuk Ibrahim Ali's speech on Sunday to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Home Minister to prove that the Perkasa president had threatened the Chinese community. Describing him [...]

Malaysia’s Comical Ali

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:33 AM PDT

By Dean Johns Jun 22, 11 | MalaysiaKini For a criminal regime to survive and thrive, it has to look deadly serious. So you know it’s in dire distress when it has to resort to sending in the clowns. The most classic instance of this, as we all vividly recall, was Saddam Hussein’s employment of [...]

Kit Siang spells out case for July 9 rally

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:26 AM PDT

MalaysiaKini Jun 22, 11 If certain quarters claim not to know why the Bersih 2.0 rally on July 9 needs to be held, the reasons have been provided by the BN leaders themselves within and outside Parlaiament, said DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang today. The first reason is contained in the Prime Minister’s Department’s [...]

Ex-Perlis mufti Asri backs Bersih’s intentions

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT

MalaysiaKini Jun 22, 11 Former Perlis mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin said after hearing and evaluating the briefing given by the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih), he found its intentions to be good. Asri said he had been swarmed with questions over the Bersih campaign and for him to take a stand [...]

Ibrahim Ali as guilty as hell

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:50 AM PDT

I have seen the video recording of the speech by the Perkasa President Ibrahim Ali at the launch of the Bersih 2.0 counter-protest in Kampung Baru in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday and there can be no doubt that he is as guilty as hell in his incendiary, inciteful and treasonous "Chinese should stock up food" [...]

Charles Santiago

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:05 PM PDT

Charles Santiago


Decent Living Wages Compromised with NWCC Bill

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:02 PM PDT

The National Wages Consultative Council (NWCC) Bill 2011replaces the Wages Council Act 1947.

 

a)      Minimum Wages can be implemented without the NWCC

The proposed Bill establishes a Wages Consultative Council in order to conduct studies and make recommendations to the government on minimum wages. The proposed body will be consultative in nature and its decisions are not binding on the government.

All recommendations of the Council must be routed through the Minister who is empowered to make the final decision. Also, the members of the council are appointed by the Minister.

The Minister has absolute power and authority in making decisions on minimum wages. The Minister – appoints council members, makes all final decisions, and controls the process – in the determination of minimum wages.

Thus, the Minister can determine minimum wages with the help of a technical committee in the Ministry. Thus the setting-up of a National Wages Consultative Council is redundant; a waste of public funds and it introduces another bureaucratic layer in wage determination.

b)     Definition of Minimum Wages – Missing!

The proposed Bill does not define a minimum wage framework in order to guide the deliberations and decisions of the Council.

The Section 2 of the Employment Act (1955) stpulates wages in the following way:

“wages” means basic wages and all other payments in cash payable to an employee for work done in respect of his contract of service but does not include –

  • (a) the value of any house accommodation or the supply of any food, fuel, light or water or medical attendance, or of any approved amenity or approved service;
  • (b) any contribution paid by the employer on his own account to any pension fund, provident fund, superannuation scheme, retrenchment, termination, lay-off or retirement scheme, thrift scheme or any other fund or scheme established for the benefit or welfare of the employee;
  • (c) any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession;

But a similar framework for minimum wages is not stipulated.

The International LabourOrganisation (ILO) provides a framework in the determination of minimum wages. Article 3 of the ILO Convention 131 on Minimum Wage(1970)suggests that determining the level of minimum wages shouldinclude:

(a) the needs of workers and their families, taking into account the general level of wages in the country, the cost of living, social security benefits, and the relative living standards of other social groups;

(b) economic factors, including the requirements of economic development, levels of productivity and the desirability of attaining and maintaining a high level of employment.

In line with this framework, ASEAN nations such as Indonesia and Thailand and South Korea have developed a minimum wage framework which includes three factors: food, non-food and savings (percentage of wages).

£  Indonesia- minimum wages laws stipulates "The establishment of minimum wages as mentioned under subsection (1) shall be directed towards meeting the need for decent living"(Act No. 13 year 2003).

£  South Korea  -In fixing the minimum wage, the Minister of Labor and the MWC should take into account the following factors: a) cost-of-living; b) wages of comparable workers; c) labor productivity etc

Again, such a minimum wage definition is not stipulated in the Bill. It is essential to have such a definition because minimum wages should be a wage that workers can live on and reproduce their families. It should not be a wage below the poverty line, as experienced by security guards in the country. Without a definition any amount can be a minimum wage.  We want to prevent such abuse of the minimum wage by getting an acceptable definition of a minimum wage that the Council can apply.

c)      The Council must be Autonomous and Independent

The proposed Bill suggests that members of the Council are to be appointed by the Minister and its decisions not binding.  We put forward an alternative approach to ensure that the Council is autonomous, independent and a decision making process that will serve the best interests of all stakeholders.

The Council must therefore:

  • Operate as a tripartite body with an independent third party mediating between employers and workers

We propose a tripartite framework, based on international best practices. It includes:

a)      Employer and employee representatives will be elected by employer organisations and labour unions;

b)      Independents must fulfill a set of specified, appropriate criteria for qualification and disqualification:

    • Knowledge of labour markets or labour law, experience in analysis of complex national issues
      • These criteria qualify, among others, academicians, industrial relations lawyers, retired judges and chairs of the Industrial Court
    • Vested interest, persons restricted in making independent judgment
      • These criteria disqualify, among others, government officials, retired civil servants with financial interests in companies

c)      Candidates for independent Council members will be proposed by workers, employers and government, with workers and employers reserving the right to veto up to one-third of the total number of nominations.

d)     This leaves in the end an independent group that is acceptable to both the employers and employees to help to bring a minimum wage figure that is acceptable to all.

e)      Government representatives are appointed to the council to contribute information and guidance on policy, but will not vote in the Council's deliberations

f)       The Council's recommendations must secure two-thirds of the voting Council members' support before being forwarded to the government

g)      The government may return the recommendation to the Council for re-deliberation. However, the subsequent decision of the Council, by two-thirds majority vote, will automatically become the legally binding decent living wage level.

Charles Santiago

Member of Parliament, Klang.

 

 

 


Blog@Wengsan...博客@永山

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:47 PM PDT

Blog@Wengsan...博客@永山


灵大学园64路路墩符合规格,黄世豪不应该胡乱抨击市议会

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:12 AM PDT

LEE GUAN AIK for KOTA DARUL AMAN 李源益州议员

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:36 PM PDT

LEE GUAN AIK for KOTA DARUL AMAN 李源益州议员


Jangan lepas kematian baru isi borang E-Sinar (Kedahlanie 22 June 2011)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:17 AM PDT


ALOR SETAR - Majlis Ketua Kampung (MKK) perlulah memainkan peranan dengan baik untuk memastikan penduduk yang layak di kawasan terlibat mengisi borang E-Sinar bagi membolehkan mereka menerima bantuan Skim Kafalah apabila berlakunya kematian.

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Anak Bukit, YB. Dato' Ir. Amiruddin Hamzah berkata, apabila E-Sinar telah diisi, ia memudahkan pemberian bantuan Skim Kafalah dan tidak mengambil masa yang terlalu lama untuk disampaikan.

"Kita sebolehnya mahu menyerahkan bantuan Skim Kafalah ini pada hari kematian sewaktu mengunjungi keluarga tersebut kerana mahu meringankan beban keluarga pada waktu itu," katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap pada majlis penyampaian bantuan Skim Kafalah kepada 50 orang di Pusat Khidmat Wakil Rakyat (PKWR) Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Anak Bukit, Jalan Gunung Keriang, di sini.

Beliau juga mahu penduduk mengambil perhatian untuk mengisi borang E Sinar agar bantuan Skim Khafalah dapat diberikan dengan segera.

Amiruddin memberitahu, selepas ini, beliau berharap agar penyampaian Skim Kafalah pada masa akan datang disampaikan pada hari kematian dan tidak lagi menghimpunkan penerima termasuklah waris keluarga yang meninggal dunia pada tahun lalu.

Menurutnya, kepekaan penduduk juga amat diharapkan agar mereka segera mengisi E Sinar untuk memudahkan proses penyerahan.

"Apa yang penting adalah mereka mengisi E Sinar, kemudian selepas hari kematian mereka perlulah menyerahkan salinan sijil kematian dan permit pengkebumian kepada kita," ujarnya.

View issues with Tan Seng Giaw

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:03 PM PDT

View issues with Tan Seng Giaw


Make it easy for foreign or returned experts to start work in Malaysia

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:42 AM PDT

DAP National Deputy Chairman and MP for Kepong Dr Tan Seng Giaw calls on the Prime Minister YAB Datuk Seri Najib to ensure that specialists such as good scientists would not take a long time to get work permit such as six months.

Specialists and skilled workers of various fields move from one country to another. What is important is that there are more of them remaining and coming to Malaysia.

On 22.6.2011, Dr Tan asked a supplementary question as YAB Najib talked on Global Science & Innovation Advisory Council (GSIAC).

Having good scientists including those from the United States creating innovations such as for developing smart cities and smart villages in this country is a step in the right direction. If GSIAC projects are successfully implemented, the people can benefit from them.

There are weaknesses such as bureaucracy that must be overcome. If a good scientist or a skilled personnel applies for a work permit or returns from overseas,the duration to get all applications and formalities sorted out must be reasonable. Taking more than six months is unacceptable. An advanced country expedites these applications.

Dr Tan Seng Giaw

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