Health ministry mulls taking contract workers as permanent staff without pensions
Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa says this is to deal with the workload that exceeds the capacity of available resources, as well as to reduce the burden of the country's pension scheme.
Health ministry offering 4,914 permanent posts this year
These comprise 4,263 posts for medical officers, 335 for dental officers and 316 for pharmacy officers.
4,053 medical officers offered full-time positions
This is just under half of the 8,672 initial applications for permanent positions involving contract medical and dental officers and pharmacists for this year.
Salaries in but with some cuts for Sabak Bernam contract cleaners
Their biggest question is over an 11% deduction made to their overdue wages.
At Sabak Bernam schools, cleaners slog without pay for 4 months
They blame the contract system which they say allows room for exploitation by companies which choose to do so.
