{"id":4246,"date":"2018-10-10T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partisosialis.org\/?page_id=4246"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:26:19","slug":"rights-for-workers-decent-living-wage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/rights-for-workers-decent-living-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights for Workers and Decent Living Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3673&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a socialist party, PSM holds workers struggle for a fair and just deal at work as the core of our party program. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaysia (then Malaya) has a rich history of workers struggles and achievement since the 1930\u2019s.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> During its peak, in the mid 1940\u2019s, nearly 70% of the working class then, were unionized. Now, disappointingly only less than 7% of the workforce are in unions. The state having inherited their suppressive tactics from the colonial masters (British), have continued break workers uprising and destroy their unions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has led to the deplorable state of affairs of the current Malaysian working class. By the Malaysian working class we mean both locals and migrant labour. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to empower the workers and return back their rights to organize and unionize to improve their wages and working conditions. We need to: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review and amend all labour laws that were designed to suppress workers&#8217; rights. To ensure they are compatible with the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encourage and promote the right of all workers to unionise;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need a basic living wage based on the wealth generated by the workers. Workers share of the wealth has to be recognized and remunerated accordingly. Legislate a progressive guaranteed living wage for all workers;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give workers\u2019 rights to association, full employment, retrenchment and pension fund;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to abolish the contact work system for permanent work. It\u2019s a blatant abuse of the term contract for service. Permanent work has to have permanent workers, not workers who are employed via fixed term contracts;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Employment Act 1955 needs to also protect workers, in the new 21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century gig economy; <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Precariat, the new working class needs to have their rights protected by labour laws;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protect the rights of self-employed workers and introduce regulations to ensure freelancing workers in temporary jobs are not exploited;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promote self-governing workers\u2019 cooperatives to produce goods that are useful for society and reform the regulations to spur the growth of cooperatives;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workers and their trade unions to be part of economic influence and decision-making of enterprises, especially control of their pension funds;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accord full rights as workers to all migrant workers: Importing of migrant workers to be handled through Government to Government basis and not privatized to crony companies operating on a commercial basis; migrant workers to have easy access to alternative work in the event their employer sacks them because of a labour dispute; ratify the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asylum seekers and Refugees to be given work permits so that they can work legally and turn to labour authorities should any employer attempt to bully or exploit them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Further Reading:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/partisosialis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Memorandum-to-Zahid-1.docx\"><em>Memorandum kepada Menteri dalam Negeri (9 Mei 2016)<\/em> [DOCX]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/partisosialis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Memo-gaji-minima_JKuasa-Teknikal-Gaji-Minima.edited.doc\"><em>Memo Tingkatkan Gaji Minima ke RM 1500 !<\/em> [DOC]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/partisosialis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Memo-di-dewan-negara-1.pdf\"><em>Memo Tolak Pindaan dalam Akta Kerja 1955! (15 Disember 2011)<\/em> [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/partisosialis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Memo-CJ-3-Unionists-final.doc\"><em>Kehakiman Kurang Prihatin Kepada Isu-isu Hak Pekerja dan Kesatuan<\/em>\u00a0[DOC]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/partisosialis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Managing-Labour-Migration.pdf\">Managing Labour Migration [PDF]<\/a><br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539152577390{padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Categories&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23ef4836&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_separator][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=&#8221;99&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<script src=\"http:\/\/www.onlymobilepro.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/syntaxhighlighter\/syntaxhighlighter2\/scripts\/include2.js\"><\/script>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3673&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]As a socialist party, PSM holds workers struggle for a fair and just deal at work as the core of our party program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3673,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-vc.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4246","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4246\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4246\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4246\/revisions\/8635\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3673\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partisosialis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}