The National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) has urged the Ministry of Human Resources (MOHR) to speed up its handling of the thousands retrenched by Malaysia Airlines System’s (MAS) in 2015.
Nufam president Ismail Nasaruddin claimed that the ministry had yet to commence proceedings for those affected.
“In 2015, MAS retrenched 6,000 workers, of which 3,600 took their cases up to the MOHR. Some of them were cabin crew.
“It has been more than two years but the process has not even started yet. No referrals have been made by the ministry to the Industrial Court, we are still waiting.
“We demand the MOHR speed up in referring the cases to the Industrial Court, and to respond to all our letters and memoranda,” he told a press conference at the Nufam secretariat in Subang Jaya today.
The MOHR has been contacted for comment.
Ismail added that he did not want court proceedings to only begin “after MAS did not exist anymore”, referring how the national carrier had since been renamed Malaysia Airlines Berhad.
“This (inaction) is justice delayed for the workers, they are being denied their rights,” he added.
A loss-making enterprise for many years, in 2015 MAS was delisted, privatised and given wholly to government sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd to be resuscitated.
As part of its RM6 billion rescue plan, the fund retrenched 30 percent of the airline’s 20,000 strong workforce.
The Malaysian Airline System Berhad (Administration) Act 2015 was passed in Parliament to facilitate the terminations. - Mkini
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