p/s: Hope it's include the minimum wage of Petugas PDK.
PUTRAJAYA: The soon-to-be set up National Wages Consultative Council will look into a proposal for a single minimum wage instead of one for each sector.
Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said on Monday that this was among pointers discussed by the various stakeholders during a week-long “live lab” on the issue.
He said the proposal was for one minimum wage for employees in the peninsular and another for Sabah and Sarawak.
“Once the council is set up, it will look at all the suggestions and ideas that were raised during the laboratory. It will use the input, including on the proposed a national minimum wage to decide on the matter,” he told reporters after closing the laboratory on Monday.
Asked if stakeholders had proposed the quantum of what the minimum wage for Malaysia should be, Dr Subramaniam said representatives of both employers and employees had given their suggested among but he refused to divulge details.
It has been reported earlier that the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) had proposed that the minimum wage level should use RM700 as the median benchmark.
Dr Subramianiam said, when enforced, the minimum wage policy would cover all employees, both locals and legal foreign workers.
“We do not practice different wage system for locals and foreigners. Even now, both get the same amount of pay and we will hold to the principle,” he said.
The minister also said that a commission would later be set up to advice the council on technical, legal and professional matters.
The minimum wage laboratory saw the participation of members of the Senate and Parliament, state executive council members as well as representatives from the World Bank, government agencies, employers, trade unions and non-governmental organisations.
The findings of the laboratory is crucial to determine the scope and direction for the National Wage Consultative Council, to be set up under the National Minimum Wages Act 2011.
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