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22 March 2012| last updated at 12:38AM

Contracts renewed for 71 workers



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THE employment contracts of 71 general workers attached to schools in Perak have been renewed.

Their contracts, which are renewed yearly, expired in December.  

"We were unemployed for  two-and-a-half months after our contract expired," said workers representative Jamaludin Bahari.

"Many of us had been working for 15 years and we could not find other jobs," he said at a thanksgiving ceremony at the State Broadcasting Department Complex, here, recently.

He thanked Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the education minister, for helping them out of their predicament.

The workers received their letters of re-employment on March 15.

"We hope our contracts will be renewed annually or twice a year until we reach our retirement age," Jamaludin said.

The workers had called in to the  Deme Tanya, Pak Ngah Jawab (They Ask, Pak Ngah replies)  programme which is aired on Perak FM radio station to bring attention to their plight.

Pengkalan Baru assemblyman Datuk Hamdi Abu Bakar  who is  fondly known as Pak Ngah  is the host of the programme.

Hamdi, who is the state government information chief, said   he had raised the matter with Muhyiddin who then promised to solve the problem.  The state Education Department also submitted an appeal to the Education Ministry.

Also present were  Perak Broadcasting Department director Kham Siah Hindon Md Said and Perak Education Department representative Ismail Ebrahim Ebrahim.

Jamaludin Bahari (third from left) thanking Datuk Hamdi Abu Bakar. Looking on are Kham Siah Hindon Md Said (second from right), Ismail Ebrahim Ebrahim (right) and the general workers.

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