It accused MPGN of lying and failing to provide a reasonable excuse for increasing the wage by such a small amount.

PSM has been pushing for a minimum wage of RM1,500 for workers.

“We are very dissatisfied. We can’t accept the fact that the government only increased the minimum wage by RM100 after more than three years,” he told reporters at a press conference.

Sivarajan said PSM had contacted MPGN previously to seek an explanation.

Instead, they were told that MPGN could not answer these questions because they were bound by Section 54 of MPGN Act 2011 (Act 732), which prevented them from revealing confidential information from its meetings.

“The excuse MPGN gave is a trick to hide the fact that the RM100 increase is not justified.”

The group urged MPGN to reveal the key indicators used to calculate the minimum wage.

PSM, he said, would continue to push the government and MPGN to comply with its demands to increase the minimum wage to RM1,500.

PSM also claimed that the government’s decision to not set the minimum wage at RM1,500 had “victimised” the people as they were forced to deal with the increasing cost of living.

Prime Minister Najib Razak had announced – when tabling the recalibrated 2016 Budget – that the minimum wage would be raised to RM1,000 from RM900 in Peninsular Malaysia and from RM800 to RM920 in East Malaysia.