When the government announces half-year and year-end bonuses and
increments for the ministers and the civil servants the ministers
always make it sound that everyone in the private sector will be
getting such bonuses or increments so that they and their civil
servants will enjoy the recommendations.
It will not take long for any one in the private sector to
discover that while the ministers are enjoying all the NWC or
better recommended bonuses and increments usually a large
proportion of employees in the private sector are not getting any
such benefits at all as assumed in the annual NWC
announcements.
So NWC obviously is not intended to serve the employees to get
their benefits which would otherwise be held back by employers
taking advantage of unequal relationship. NWC appears to be created
for benefits only for the ministers and their own kind and
connection and not for employees as a whole.
If it is only a vehicle to justify rewarding themselves and
their own kind while ignoring the employees in the private sector
should such an organization exist at all since it is not in the
public interest at all.
The many benefits like pregnancy leave and Saturday off are also
given only to themselves and civil servants and are also full of
hypocrisy with a lot of employees in the private sector unable to
enjoy the same benefits usually due to unequal relationship and
exploitations.
Just study around and one could easily find that the private
sector employers are not following such general rewards given to
all the ministers and their own kind and yet every year the
ministers are making it sound that because private sector are
giving benefits they too will be given the NWC generous and
over-generous rewards with bonuses going as high as 8 months even
to those responsible for escape of Mas Selamat.
Civil servants are given the regular annual wage increments based
on certain assumptions that private sector employees are getting
more. Any one who cares to look into this issue will easily find
many employees in the private sector not getting even the 13th
month wage supplement not to mention the July Bonus and Year-end
3-months bonuses. Complaints to MOM of non-13th month supplement
fell on deaft ears as there is no labor law to make employers pay
such supplement.
will be to no avail if one is not an employee in a
collective-agreement company.
So there is really no justice being an employee in the private
sector. Every year while civil servants are getting their
increments and bonuses those in the private sector are not getting
them. Yet the ministers in announcing NWC recommendations for
half-year and year-end are always assuming that private sector
employees will be given such benefits by their employers.
Why when it is using public funds belonging to the public bonuses
are so easy to pay out and when it comes to private sector
employees the minister of Manpower doesn't seem to care?
So the conclusion is that there will always be hypocrisy or
dishonesty in paying out salaries and bonuses with all kind of
false assumptions to make the NWC recommend higher than the norm in
th private sector.
So this is the kind of government and ministers called talented who
deserve millions because they are good in looking after people and
fighting for their justice and equity. It will not be surprising to
find the prison chief who are negligent in allowing toilet bowl
escape of terrorist prisoner to be rewarded several months of
bonuses even after such incompetence.