Security staff at hospital on strike

Star | Some 140 security personnel at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (HTAR) here went on strike for 15 hours on Friday over a salary dispute.

The 70 personnel who were to report for night shift at 8pm, refused to do so.

Langahati Kuwak, 54, a security supervisor, said the company, an outsourcing company with the Health Ministry at HTAR, had not paid their basic salary since June. He said their full salary was about RM800 each.

“Our life is in limbo now, I have four school-going children in Semporna, Sabah, and I need to send money home,” he said.

Langahati said they were paid a few times a month, between RM100 and RM200 each time.

“But the partial salary that I received is not enough even for myself,” he said.

State Health, Plantation Work­ers, Poverty and Caring Govern­ment committee chairman Dr A. Xavier Jayakumar said he had contacted the director of the security company on the matter.... selanjutnya.

no2umno - Wakakakaka ... tak kan tokey tak der duit kot. Buat belanja pemilihan UMNO ke? Tu .. pekerja sedang pening kepala nak hantar duit ke kampung. Cuba bayangkan kalau sekurity tak der di hospital. Kot kot ada mayat yang hilang atau pesakit yang mungkin jadi doktor. Pada mereka yang takut untuk di bedah ... boleh cabut lari malam malam. KAh kah kah ... Sapa punya kontrak tu ?