Kadar pengangguran Tahun 2009 dijangka meningkat diantara 4 dan 4.5%!!!
11,560 pekerja telah diberhentikan kerja dalam Q3 tahun 2008!!!
Kerajaan BN masih menafikannya !!!
Lihatlah kesan dari pemberhentian kerja ....
Semalam seorang ibu muda dipenjara dua hari dan denda hanya kerana mencuri halwa, petai ...(sedangkan ada YB2 yang memberi dan menerima rasuah masih bebas...)
BALIK PULAU 5 Jan. - "Saya tiada duit, sebab itu saya terpaksa mencuri. Ibu sudah melarang tetapi saya tidak mengendahkan larangannya itu,'' rayu seorang ibu muda di Mahkamah Majistret di sini hari ini sambil menundukkan kepalanya.
Rayuan itu dibuat tertuduh, Fariza Mohd. Hooron, 23, sebelum Majistret Norhayati Johar menjatuhkan hukuman terhadapnya setelah mengaku bersalah mencuri pelbagai barangan keperluan bernilai RM275.09 milik sebuah pasar raya, di sini Jumaat lalu.
Tertuduh yang memakai blaus ungu dan berseluar hitam dilihat tenang sambil memandang ibu dan beberapa anggota keluarganya yang berada di galeri awam semasa merayu hukuman terhadapnya diringankan.
"Saya telah berkahwin dan mempunyai seorang anak berusia tiga tahun. Kini saya tidak lagi bekerja setelah kilang tempat saya bekerja ditutup. Suami pun hanya pekerja kilang.
Setelah mendengar rayuan tertuduh yang tidak diwakili peguam, Norhayati memerintahkan Fariza dihukum penjara dua hari dan denda RM300 atau penjara tiga bulan.
Beliau memutuskan hukuman penjara tersebut berkuat kuasa mulai hari ini.
Mengikut pertuduhan, Fariza didakwa telah mencuri 28 barangan keperluan pelbagai jenis termasuk halwa buah pala dan petai bernilai RM275.09 milik Pasaraya Sunshine Bayan Baru, pada kira-kira pukul 1.45 petang, 2 Januari lalu, di Bayan Lepas di sini.
Menurut fakta kes, semasa kejadian, pengawal keselamatan di pasar raya itu telah melihat dua wanita dalam keadaan mencurigakan.
Mereka dilihat telah memasukkan pelbagai jenis barangan ke dalam sebuah beg plastik yang dibawa sendiri.
Tertuduh kemudiannya telah pergi ke kaunter dan membuat pembayaran terhadap beberapa barangan sahaja.
Setelah membuat semakan terhadap barangan yang lain, tertuduh kemudiannya ditahan kerana gagal mengemukakan resit sebagai bukti pembelian barangan tersebut.
Higher Unemployment for 2009 !!!
JAN 6 – Economists are projecting Malaysia’s jobless rate to rise to between 4 and 4.5 per cent this year following a third-quarter 2008 spike when lay-offs were four times those in Q2.
Some 11,560 workers were retrenched in Q3.
And the rate of job losses is expected to accelerate this year, with estimates that between 200,000 and 400,000 people could be laid off should the global slowdown bite deeper into consumer demand.
For export-reliant Malaysia - the country’s external trade to GDP is 172 per cent - manufacturing would be hit hardest. And the electrical and electronic (E&E) and automotive-related sectors would likely be bruised most.
Bank Negara figures show almost 16,800 workers were retrenched in 2008, about two-thirds or more than 11,000 of them from manufacturing.
Significantly, almost all of these job losses - more than 10,000 - were in Q3.
Q4 statistics will not be released for a while, but many observers fear a spurt in retrenchments after Chinese New Year.
Ironically, at 3.1 per cent, Malaysia’s jobless rate in Q3 was lower than Q2’s figure of 3.5 per cent, according to the Statistics Department.
Officially, the government has pegged unemployment at 3.5 to 4.5 per cent in 2009, up from an estimated 3.3 per cent in 2008. It has also played down the prospect of widespread unemployment.
According to Human Resources Minister S Subramaniam, based on feedback from 137 employers, some 4,700 workers — mainly in the electronics sector — are expected to be laid off in Q1 this year.
This is a drop in the bucket compared with a Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) projection of 200,000 to 400,000 job losses, mainly in the E&E and automotive-related sectors.
An economist described the MEF projection of 400,000 retrenchments as ‘probably a bit on the high side.’
He reckons the figure will likely be around 200,000-plus, which added to current unemployment of 340,000-plus would result in an unemployment rate of 4.5 per cent — more than twice the 80,000 plus job losses during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
To stave off retrenchments, most employers are cutting shifts, work days and salaries. In drastic cases, employees have been reduced to working eight days in a month, such as at an auto-related business in Johor, according to news reports.
Another report at the weekend said orders for E&E products in the electronics manufacturing hub of Penang have halved - a fate the plastics, textiles and metal industries are also suffering.
Even more worrying is a 70 per cent plunge in demand for chemical and steel-related industries.
Still, employers have pledged to lay off workers only as a last resort.
And because slightly more than a third of the estimated 2.1 million people in manufacturing are low-skilled foreign workers, the expectation is that they would be the first to be asked to go should the need arise.
On the flip-side, Subramaniam has estimated that 300,000 Malaysians work in Singapore, mostly in manufacturing where wages are higher. These workers could also see their jobs come under pressure should bottom lines buckle. – Business Times Singapore
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