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THE FIRST LAW OF HIRING IN MALAYSIA: YOU SHALL NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BUMIPUTRAS IN HIRING, WAGE AND BENEFITS.

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Leader Cable Industry Bhd’s “Preferably non-bumiputra encourage to apply” advert breaks the First Law of Hiring in Malaysia!

They have had to eat humble pie: withdraw the advert and replace it with one that says “Bumiputera encouraged to apply”.
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Malaysiakini

8:54AM Jun 8, 2014

Egg on Khairy’s face over non-bumi ad

YOURSAY

‘Why is BN so reluctant on enacting the Race Relations Act?’

MD: ‘Non-bumi’ job ad an honest mistake

 

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Awakened: Well, the bumiputera MD (managing director) has openly admitted that the advertisement was a mistake and he apologised for it. He also mentioned that majority of the employees in his company are bumiputera.

Sports and Youth Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, if you sincerely, truthfully and wholeheartedly believe in equality, justice and fairness, can you also please go after the largest employers in the country – which is the government and GLCs (government-linked companies) – and stop the ‘bumiputeras only’ advertisements.

Swipenter: Leader Cable Industry Bhd managing director Azhar Ariffin, with due respect, why should you apologise if you advertise for a prospective employee with the right qualifications to work for your company, be he or she a bumi or non-bumi?

If you think that you need more non-bumi employees to balance your workforce, I don’t see any problem in that. If KJ does, then it is his problem not yours. We must learn not to ‘kow tow’ to meaningless demands from the politicians.

KJ has nothing better to do than to play race politics with your advertisement. So if the advertisement is for a bumi then there is no problem from this Oxford-educated apple polisher but not otherwise.

What kind of hypocrisy is this country getting into?

Nes: Dear Azhar, there is no mistake, honest or otherwise. You have rightly encouraged non- bumiputera to join your company, which is 83.5 percent bumiputera, to create a more diverse workplace.

Unfortunately, as the norm nowadays (remember Francis Yeoh?), you have to pander to an egoistic minister whose intelligence is blinded by his ambition, and you willingly throw your principle out of the window.

So now it is okay to encourage bumiputera to apply and not non-bumiputera?

Tupaibesi: But certain companies put out ads like this: Mandarin/Chinese dialect speaking preferred. So is that okay?

Why do we require this in Malaysia when everyone should be able to converse in Bahasa Malaysia and at least a little bit of English?

Sleepy: Are we telling businesses that when you go overseas, especially China, you must not speak their language?

I know many Malays and non-Malays who speak good Mandarin. ‘Chinese-speaking a must’ is very different from ‘Chinese a must’.

Meor Kamil: It is not just this advertisement in Jobstreet that is racist. There are a lot of job advertisements that say ‘Chinese speaking is a must’.

Not Convinced: Meor Kamil, I’m a Chinese but I can’t speak or write Mandarin. I have no problem with advertisements stating that ‘Chinese speaking a must’.

Rather than complaining, I can either look for jobs that require me to be conversant in other languages or to learn to speak Chinese to increase my employability.

MrM: So Khairy, is ‘Bumiputera encouraged to apply’ acceptable for a company that has 83.5 percent bumiputera employees?

If yes, does that mean that only bumiputera be encouraged to apply and no one else? Please clarify your stand because currently there is too much ambiguity as to what you mean.

Karma: There is no mistake indeed. The company need not lie here to satisfy Khairy just because he has a tendency to mobilise his hooligans to rough up companies.

Oh Ya?: The ruling elite’s failed policies should be blamed. They associate everything with race and religion.

This issue of bumiputera or non-bumiputera would not arise if they do away with race-based political parties and practise meritocracy

At the very least, why are they so reluctant on enacting the proposed Race Relations Act? Is it because they are the ones who will be at the receiving end?

Joepaul: If race is an issue, why amend the ad to read ‘Bumiputera encouraged to apply’. How is it different from ‘Non-bumi encouraged to apply’.

Azhar, you don’t have to be so apologetic and grovel to Umno. Just advertise for staff and select those who meet your requirements.
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Malaysiakini

8:17PM Jun 6, 2014

MD: ‘Non-bumi’ job ad an honest mistake

Leader Cable Industry Bhd managing director Azhar Ariffin has apologised for the job advertisement that irked Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin.

Describing it as an “honest mistake”, he said the majority of the company’s employees are bumiputera.

“We sincerely apologise for the mistake. We have immediately contacted Jobstreet upon realising the mistake today and Jobstreet informed us they have rectified the mistake today,” he told Malaysiakini in an email communique.

Azhar also explained that Leader Cable had always encouraged the participation of bumiputera employees.

Earlier today, Khairy published the advertisement on his Twitter account, and criticised the firm for stating: “Preferably non-bumiputera encourage (sic) to apply.”

Following this, the company amended the advertisement to read, “Bumiputera encouraged to apply”.

Referring to his speech during the last Umno general assembly, Khairy said he had raised this issue before but many denied it.

In his speech, he had criticised non-bumiputera companies that discriminated against bumiputeras in terms of pay and recruitment.

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