The 30% foreign express bus drivers proposal is just quick-fix, not a long-term solution, says Dr S Subramaniam.
PETALING JAYA: Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam today said the transport industry should rethink on how they were “hiring and managing” their drivers, instead of looking at foreign workers as a “quick fix” to their problems.He was responding to Konsortium Transnasional Bhd, the country’s biggest express bus company’s proposal to have foreigners make up 30% of its drivers.
Its executive, Tengku Hasmadi Tengku Hashim made the proposal recently in order to address a shortage of express bus drivers and to eliminate the existing reckless ones.
Subramaniam said that transport industry should instead relook at the way they were hiring and managing their drivers.
He said the industry must provide proper education and training for bus drivers, instill the importance of safety, pay fair wages and social security benefits.
“Putting the blame for the inadequacies of the industry to the attitude of drivers is unfair. The work environment is important. Poor environment create poor attitudes,” he said.
He also said that it has become a trend among Malaysian employers to look at foreign workers “as a quick fix to their human resource management woes”.
This, he said, must stop and employers need to relook at how to “modernised their human resources management” to make it relevant to current situations.
He also warned that Malaysia may be opening a “Pandora’s box” by opening its borders to an increase of foreign workers. This may threaten the “entire fabric of this nation,” he said.
Taken from Free Malaysia Today
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