The National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia said the most concerning issue was the axing of 6,000 Malaysia Airlines workers in 2015, which it alleged was not done according to law.
Complaints had also been received from workers of Rayani Air and Eaglexpress, it said.
The union urged new Human Resources Minister, K Kulasegaran to reopen the file of unanswered complaints sent to the previous Ministry.
In 2015, Malaysia Airlines laid off 6,000 of its workers as part of a restructuring programme. The union had said 3,500 of those dismissed were its union members.
No response was received to repeated complaints, letters and memoranda sent to the Human Resources Ministry, the union said in a statement today.
“The union hopes the new Manpower (Human Resources) minister could reopen the file on old complaints and restudy the memoranda sent by the union before. (In our complaints), there were many matters decided against us which was not compliant with the laws,” the statement said today.
“Airline companies were protected by the previous minister with no action taken on airline companies which had gone against labour laws (in laying off staff),” it said. After more than two years, there were no written responses from the ministry.
Besides illegal layoffs, the union was concerned over the livelihoods of the retrenched workers, most of whom remained unemployed and did not receive assistance from the ministry.
“Until late last night, many laid-off workers from Rayani Air and Eaglexpress have complained to us about their issues. It is time for the new minister to reopen the files and help us,” the union said.
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