This document discusses industrial relations and wage determination in Malaysia. It covers the different types of wages like subsistence, living and fair wages. Minimum wage levels are determined by authorities using various criteria. While employers see wages as labor costs, workers define wages as direct payments received. The government has introduced reforms like the National Wage Consultation Council to improve wage determination and collective bargaining between employers and workers.

1. INDUSTRIAL RELATION (ADS 465)

2. ABSTRACT
 considered to be more on private
sectors and how the intervention and
interpretation by comparing and
contrasting the different implications of
various government on changes for the
corporate governance.
 rapid growth of the Malaysian economy
in recent years has attracted
considerable attention by the local
workers and labors.

3.  the determination mechanism of the
minimum wage fixed by an authority.
 criteria used to introduce the level of
minimum wage.
 control mechanisms
 frequency of adjustment rates

4. INTRODUCTION
 Wages is complex and defined as return
to labor
 They consider wages as a means for an
acceptable quality of life in the context
of the standard of living in country
 Includes direct wages, fringe benefits,
social security benefits paid to the
employees

5. COMPARISONS
Employers
 define wages as all costs incurred for
the recruitment and use of labor in their
enterprises.
Workers
 usually define wages as the direct
payments received for work done

6.  Right now, in our private sectors
normally will receive only subsistence
wage.
 that mean they are only received the
wage provides for basic subsistence
needs
 compare to the public sectors who
received the living wage and fair wage

7.  Wages also classified into 3 categories
that is subsistence, living and fair.
 Poor rating wage system also affected
the poverty income.
 Its mean that the impact of poverty can
gives more difficulty to the workers
 especially who have the big family and
the earning for the month is not stable
and capable for them.

8. WAGE CLASSIFIED

9. Determination
 Workers are concerned with the
immediate quantum of disposable
income,
 Although they recognize that fringe
benefits associated with terms and
conditions of employment
 All other benefits in cash or kind are
also part of wages

10. PROBLEM ARISE
 With had not paid the salary to the
workers for the last 2 months
 Example: 250 Paycomm Workers
picketing after 2 month had not paid the
wages by the employers.
 the company failed to delivered the
promises to paid the wage payment to
workers
 the long term rewarding to the staff

11. OVERVIEW CURRENT
SITUATION
 The government introduced the new
wage council, National Wage
Consultation Council, announced in
October 2010
 The negative side with Ministry slowly
setting it up to implement the council
 Slow implementation
 Affected the poverty lines although still
in consideration from the government

12.  The Government intervention is the ways
to produce a good quality of productivity
to the workers in private sectors
 The Government also can measures
modified and adapted to the company
 As we know that productivity must be
evaluated in the context of realities of
working conditions especially
technology and human capital of
workers

13. OTHERS
 Private sectors also demanded and
warned the Government to be more
opened to the private companies
 Government can handle the planned
about Private Pension Fund(PPF) and
the intervention also gives the
Government to control 2 sectors which
is public and private
 Same with U.S, Latin America and Other
European Countries(EU).

15.  Example from scheme in the U.S,
government takes over the scheme
rightly after workers feels that they
needs helpers
 To help and produce good distributor
and contributors to the private sectors

16. ARGUMENT
 Some quarters called it the negative
consequences
 With wage determination come the hot
topic and affected the minimum wage
issues
 could cause the job losses in lower
occupation
 Certain economists feel that raising the
minimum wage and the way of
determination it will only help a small wage
worker

17.  and it doesn’t guarantee jobs. It
destroys jobs
 Based on the research by the American
economists the minimum wage and
determination can increases
 increased purchasing power
 job gain, not losses the job

18. EVALUATION AND
SOLUTION
 Implementation new minimum wages
 change the subsistence wages to fair
wages
 The special incentive not the daily
allowance
 Government Intervention in wage
determination by engage the unions and
collective bargaining.
 Establish National Wage Consultation
Council

19.  to promote a market friendly approach
in the determination of wages through
the encouragement of establishment of
new wage consultation council and
promoting of collective bargaining.

20. SPECIAL BENEFITS

22. CONCLUSION
 Wage determination will always be
influenced by pre-determined policies of
the government
 the intervention by the government, the
private sectors can be revamping and
redeem industries to produce more
sufficient quality and quantity workers
 economic development must ensure
both sustained economic growth and
equitable distribution of incomes