Putrajaya: Kerajaan akan mengambil langkah termasuk meningkatkan pemeriksaan di tempat kerja, menyediakan lebih banyak sokongan kepada mangsa buruh paksa dan meningkatkan kesedaran tentang isu dalam kalangan majikan dan pekerja untuk memerangi buruh paksa.

Kementerian Sumber Manusia dalam satu kenyataan hari ini berkata, kerajaan sedang memulakan beberapa langkah utama seperti meratifikasi Protokol 2014 untuk Konvensyen Buruh Paksa dan menerima pakai Pelan Tindakan Nasional Berhubung Isu Buruh Paksa (2021-2025) berikutan buruh paksa adalah satu isu hak asasi manusia yang serius dalam hubungan pekerja.

"Malaysia akan terus bekerjasama rapat dengan Pertubuhan Buruh Antarabangsa (ILO) dan rakan-rakan kongsi lain untuk mengukuhkan lagi usaha kami memerangi buruh paksa di Malaysia.

"Kami yakin bahawa kami boleh mencapai kemajuan dalam isu ini dan kami komited untuk memastikan bahawa semua pekerja di Malaysia dihormati dan dilayan seadilnya," katanya.

Fuziah menjawab pertanyaan ketika sesi soal jawab lisan pada Mesyuarat Pertama Penggal Kedua Parlimen ke-15 di Bangunan Parlimen pada Rabu. - Foto Bernama22 Mac 2023
KUALA LUMPUR - Tahap kesedaran rakyat Malaysia terhadap kepenggunaan dan hak sebagai pengguna terutama dalam membuat keputusan pembelian masih di tahap paling sederhana.

Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Kos Sara Hidup, Fuziah Salleh berkata, dapatan itu berdasarkan Kajian Pendayaupayaan Pengguna Malaysia Tahun 2019-2022 yang dilaksanakan kementeriannya.

Menurutnya, laporan hasil kajian tersebut mendapati Indeks Pendayaupayaan Pengguna Malaysia (CEI) berada di tahap sederhana dengan skor 63.1 peratus.

“Perincian lain adalah pertimbangan pembelian ialah 68.8 peratus, literati kewangan 62.5 peratus dan keupayaan untuk membuat aduan serta tuntutan tebus rugi pula adalah 56.1 peratus.

“Hasrat kita kini adalah mahukan 33 juta pengguna Malayiusa menjadi pengguna yang berdaya upaya iaitu pengguna yang bijak, tahu hak dan berani bertindak,” katanya di Dewan Rakyat di sini pada Rabu.

Beliau berkata demikian bagi menjawab pertanyaan Rodiyah Sapiee (GPS - Batang Sadong) meminta menyatakan sama ada kementeriannya akan menilai semula dasar-dasar kepenggunaan terutama Dasar Pengguna Negara memandangkan fokus Kementerian telah bertambah kepada isu kos sara hidup.

Mengulas lanjut, Fuziah berkata, kementeriannya juga sedang menambahbaik Dasar Pengguna Negara (DPN) 1.0 dan dijangka selesai dalam ini.

LETTER| The areas under the Sungai Semenyih plant encompassing USJ, Puchong, Seri Kembangan and Serdang have been severely affected by complete water disruption since Saturday morning. For many residents there this is certainly not the first time. In fact, this is the fifth or sixth time. The suffering that water disruption causes to people has totally been underestimated by policymakers.Activities such as cooking, washing, bathing and drinking are disrupted and when these cuts are unscheduled, the effect is extremely severe especially for big families.

This is made worse when it occurs at or near festive seasons, disrupting celebrations.Additionally, as families are unable to cook at home and seek to purchase food outside, often these shops are closed. There have even been reports that medical procedures were postponed or the patients were directed to go to another hospital because of the unavailability of water. People suffer when there are water cuts. People really suffer.Three days later, the problem has still not been resolved. It was reported that the chief minister informed on Sunday night that the water supply will resume at 11pm, but it proved to be untrue.

Another report said the chief minister informed that the Selangor government expects affected areas to recover by late Sunday night, but again not true.
Residents in some areas were informed that the water truck would arrive at their housing area on Sunday night. It never did. People had waited the whole night with pails outside their homes to collect water. The water truck never arrived; not only had they lost sleep, they never got the water that would have helped in a small way to overcome their suffering.As of this morning, the situation remains the same.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians are generally cautious of unknown calls and messages, but increased measures must be taken to prevent them from falling prey to scammers.The National Consumer Complaints Centre’s legal and policy division senior manager Shabana Naseer said concerted efforts were needed to eradicate the menace.“Government agencies, including police and the Malaysian Communications and the Multimedia Commission (MCMC), as well as telecommunication companies (telcos) should work closely in deterring scammers.“Apart from terminating phone numbers used for scamming by MCMC, other measures should be taken to deter them.“The authorities should have a list of those who had registered for phone numbers used for scams. The numbers can be obtained from the police as they are the ones who receive reports by victims.

“Consequently, it will be harder for scammers to register new numbers,” she said, adding that telcos could play a more active role in addressing the problem as part of their corporate social responsibility.She said the public could visit http://ccid.rmp.gov.my/semakmule to check the list of online scammers.Shabana suggested a common complaint platform for the public to lodge reports and urged personal data protection to be strengthened through close cooperation among telcos.Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s head of Computer Security and Software Verification Lab, Professor Dr Zarina Shukur, said the government must take action to protect Malaysians from criminal activities.“The government via its ministries should play a part in taking action to combat scam calls and messages. One of the ways to do this is by informing the public about scam operations through religious activities, such as Friday sermons for Muslims.

GUA MUSANG: Penduduk Orang Asli suku Batek di Kampung Kuala Koh di sini, memotong bekalan air tadahan bukit sejak seminggu lalu kerana mendakwa ia tidak selamat untuk digunakan.Mereka mendakwa bekalan air tadahan bukit disediakan Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli (Jakoa) itu dipercayai menjadi punca serangan demam campak di kampung berkenaan sehingga menyebabkan 15 kematian, baru-baru ini.Penduduk, Mamat Ong, 30, berkata, penduduk memotong paip daripada tadahan air bukit itu kerana dikhuatiri tercemar dan bimbang serangan penyakit berkenaan berulang.

“Kami sanggup pergi ke anak sungai berhampiran kampung untuk membasuh pakaian dan mandi selepas air tadahan bukit dipotong.“Penduduk bimbang untuk guna air bukit bagi mengelak kejadian sama berulang,” katanya.Ani Ong, 35, berkata, dia bersama lima anaknya tidak dapat mandi dan membasuh pakaian sejak kelmarin berikutan air di dalam tangki simpanan sudah habis digunakan.“Kini, kami berdepan masalah bekalan air bersih selepas air tadahan bukit dipotong dan berharap pihak berkaitan turun padang untuk selesaikan masalah kami,” katanya

THE article in The Star reflecting on International Women’s Day on March 8, “Eyeing balanced growth for women” (Nation, March 9; online at bit.ly/star_women), reminded us of the many blatant forms of discrimination against women that exist in our society.Suhakam’s (Human Rights Commission of Malaysia) reference to the numbers of women workers and their earnings is important but I believe other aspects of the treatment of the most vulnerable women workers should be addressed urgently. Some discriminatory regulations are not only tolerated but seem to be officially endorsed by the authorities.The shocking and shameful prosecution and temporary imprisonment of a Nepali migrant worker, NT, in 2014 for an early termination of pregnancy by a qualified licensed general practitioner was an unprecedented event. Its implications for the inhumane treatment of women migrant workers have yet to be addressed.

It is a shocking example of moral policing of women migrant workers in Malaysia. Though NT was acquitted without her defence being called, the case nevertheless highlighted the plight of these migrant workers bound by draconian regulations under the Home Office, implemented by the clinics under Fomema (Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency) and the immigration department.Worker’s contracts in one case included the phrase that “the employee shall not have any romantic relationships during the period of her contract”. Common sense will tell us that this is a completely unrealistic and inhumane clause – it assumes that these young women who leave home to work in a foreign country for two to three years are expected to behave like robots who only work and sleep.Clearly, romantic relationships are common and so long as they do not interfere with an employee’s ability to work, it should not be a reason for immediate dismissal and deportation. The cost of securing their work as migrants is not cheap and can only be justified financially if these workers complete their full tenure (usually two years at least).

JOHOR BARU: The Human Resource Ministry should introduce a new policy to prevent employers from hiring workers based on race and religion, says Johor Consu­merism, Human Resources and Unity Com­mit­tee chairman Dr S. Ramakrish­nan.He said it would help stop employment discrimination and promote healthier competition.“Some jobs might require certain language skills but languages can be learned, so hiring based on race and religion is very ‘un-Malaysian’.“This has been the practice in the previous administration, so we hope that with the change in the government, it should no longer be adopted,” he said yesterday.He said currently, no action could be taken by the government for job advertisement that discriminated other races.

“The most important thing is awareness. We must remember that Malaysia is strong because of its diversity and harmony,” he said.He added that in Johor, no such incident had been reported in the work market.According to the scholarship advertisement, the hospital noted that it preferred to sponsor “Chinese, Siamese, Christian and Indian applicants”.The advertisement, which came under fire from the public, was posted on the Facebook page earlier this month.It has since been deleted.But pictures of the banner with the ad were still accessible on social media.

KUALA LUMPUR: Program Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (JAWI) bakal dijadikan modul untuk kerajaan mengatur pelbagai aktiviti membantu golongan gelandangan, pihak terabai dan mereka yang terjebak gejala songsang.Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr Mujahid Yusof, berkata program dijalankan JAWI adalah baik untuk diikuti, justeru pihaknya berhasrat memperluaskan aktiviti sedemikian ke seluruh negara.“Kita tidak mahu golongan berkenaan terus tersisih. Kita perlu menyantuni golongan itu dengan kasih sayang agar mereka mampu berubah ke tahap lebih baik.“Program Jelajah Rahmah dijalankan JAWI ialah antara program baik bagi membantu golongan sebegini, dan baik untuk diluaskan ke seluruh negara walaupun kita sedar jabatan agama negeri lain ada program tersendiri,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan program itu di Anjung Singgah, malam ini.

Terdahulu, beliau turut mengagihkan makanan sumbangan pelbagai badan korporat dengan kerjasama badan bukan kerajaan (NGO), kepada 200 orang gelandangan di situ.Yang turut hadir, Pengarah JAWI, Mohd Ajib Ismail.Sementara itu dalam ucapan perasmiannya, Mujahid berkata, Program Jelajah Rahmah anjuran JAWI adalah salah satu matlamat dalam konsep ‘rahmatan lil alamin’ diterapkannya.“Kita menolak segala kebencian. Sebaliknya, kita santuni mereka melalui pendekatan mesra, prihatin dan kasih sayang,” katanya.Beliau berkata, ketua imam masjid di seluruh Kuala Lumpur akan turut bertindak sebagai pemimpin untuk membantu golongan sedemikian berubah.“Selain pelbagai program diaturkan di masjid, ketua imam ini akan keluar mencari dan membantu golongan gelandangan, terbiar dan mereka yang terjebak aktiviti songsang,” katanya.

Gara-gara merokok di kawasan larangan dan gagal membayar denda, seorang wanita dihukum penjara sebulan oleh Mahkamah Majistret Kota Bharu, hari ini.Majistret Izzudin Mohd Shukri mengenakan hukuman itu selepas Nor Faezah Hamzah, mengaku bersalah terhadap tuduhan merokok di tempat letak kereta di sebuah pasar raya, dua tahun lalu, lapor BH Online.Sebelum ini wanita 34 tahun itu dikenakan hukuman denda RM1,000 atau penjara sebulan sekiranya gagal berbuat demikian dan ternyata tertuduh gagal membayar denda itu sekali gus perlu menjalani hukuman penjara bermula hari ini.

Mengikut pertuduhan, tertuduh didakwa merokok di kawasan dilarang merokok iaitu di tempat letak kereta di sebuah pasar raya di sini pada jam 9.15 malam, 17 Mac 2017.Tertuduh didakwa mengikut Peraturan 11(1)(n) Peraturan-Peraturan Kawalan Hasil Tembakau 2004 dan dihukum di bawah subperaturan 11(3) peraturan sama yang membawa hukuman denda tidak lebih RM10,000 atau penjara tidak lebih dua tahun.Sementara itu menurut fakta kes, Penolong Pegawai Kesihatan Persekitaran Saiful Azuny Che Ya dan Pembantu Kesihatan Awam Md Nasran Saffin dari Pejabat Kesihatan Kota Bharu ke pasar raya berkenaan untuk menguatkuasakan Peraturan-peraturan Kawalan Hasil Tembakau 2004.

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