That day, I went to labour office and conduct an interview for operator position, from 8am to 4pm. there's only 22 candidates coming in looking for the job, some are looking for the position of lorry driver and some are looking for the position of clerk and operator.
From their qualification I read through, one of them is university graduate, and she is looking for the position of operator, asking for the salary of RM600.00, she is graduated in the field of agriculture, and she want to have some experiences in other areas, therefore, she look for something else.
And one looking for the position of lorry driver and asking for a salary of RM1500 without experiences, not well familiar with the route and location of certain areas.
Some of them asking for RM600 with hostel and transport facility. They wanted the company to arrange a car to sent them to work because they don't their own transportation.
Summarize all this, I would like to said, our young generation would like to have something extra, more than what is suppose to be, but they never think about their own qualification, their own working experiences, their capability. Can you believe that or not, an employer will paid them more than what is stated or budget to someone without experiences and low academic qualification. I should make myself clear that, the low academic qualification means Primary 6, and some of them are form three only, they don't even complete form five. When I ask them why don't they complete form five: they said no interest in study. Is there any employer willing to pay a operator for RM800 or higher for primary 6 only or you wanted to hire someone without form five to be his office clerk.
I feel very sorry to those who think and make a decision to stop schooling before completion his form five or SPM. It is very difficult for them to get a job and earn a living to support the whole family, what happen when this people get married, when they have their own children, how are they going to support them? I am sure our young generation never think of this, they think they can work, work hard and will be able to survive.
Our education department seems didn't notice of this, because I still can read news saying that some students are being suspended for poor discipline or even terminated from school. I understand that, some of this student may cause a lot of trouble to the school and to the teacher, as well as to other student in the school. Now, the question is: can the discipline issue be settled after terminating them and leave tehm outside, whether they can learn from it? or they are getting worse in the community. Are we creating another problem for the society? or are we just pushing the problem to others? Yes, the school sack him and the school seems settle his problem, no more trouble student, but where did this student go? We are not solving the problem? The answer is NO, we are just passing the problem to others.
What I want to propose is, our education department should make sure the student complete their schooling until SPM, this should be the minimum education required in the market. I would rather hire someone with SPM than a person without SPM for the same position. At least I can plan to train him and promote him for some other position in the future.
Secondly, If we can provide some training like, clerical work training, driver training, store keeping and so on, so that this people can applied all this knowledge to their job application rather than written down: No experience.
Basically, what I want to point out is, not only the qualification of our labour force does not match the requirement of the employer, but our employer do need to change their style in recruiting and maintaining them.
I come across some of the workers resign after working one month or few weeks, they found that they are doing the same thing everyday, they feel boring, their friend call them or they don't like the environment. Some employers think that they are business man, investor, so they want a big return on every single cent invested. They expect the staff to work seven days a week without overtime payment, and they even instruct the staff to work 9 hours a day, without overtime salary. What they claim is, the economic situation is bad, so everybody must work more, or he is working on Sunday too, why not the staff? I feel very surprise why we still have this type of employer in this day. Our labour law said, we must give one day off or pay overtime, and still this thing happen without any action from the labour office. Some of the employers do practice salary cutting, they jsut deduct the staff salary whenever they don't like or they feel not happy with the staff. Warning letter being issue to the staff for not satisfying the management requirement only.
I agree the government wanted to maintain a good relation with the employers and the investors for providing jobs opportunity to the people, therefore, they just keep one eye close and leave them continuing doing these to the workers. When we look back, do all the job opportunity given to the local people or the foreigner, can our local people stand this type of situation and condition. If they are not happy, they went oversea for opportunity, as illegal worker ending with our people work as illegal worker in other country and we need to hire foreigner and create so many social problem or they creating some way to satify their own spending need. Is that the situation we want?
I would like to share this with all those who is facing this type of problem, simply deduct salary, no overtime salary or no off day. Please write in so that they everybody know them and share them.
10/11/2008
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