Jobless ex-SPAD employees turn to Cuepacs for help

Nabihah Hamid Nabihah Hamid Updated 5 years ago · Published on 4 Jan 2019 7:00AM · 5 Comments

Eight months after the Land Public Transport Commission is shut down, many of its former workers are still waiting for the Transport Ministry to make good its promise of redeployment. – The Malaysian Insight pic, January 4, 2019.

MORE than 250 former employees of the Land Public Transport Commission, who have yet to receive the new postings promised them, are asking the civil servants’ union Cuepacs to intervene.

The group will gather at Wisma Cuepacs in Kuala Lumpur at 10am today to lodge a complaint and seek help.

“We know we are contract workers but we have tried all sorts of channels to no avail.

“Until now, we do not know where we stand. Are we absorbed or not? Many of us have given up hope,” said a worker at the government agency for eight years.

The ex-worker said they were assured that other government agencies would absorb them following SPAD’s closure, but they are still in limbo after many months.

Another former SPAD employee said he received an email informing him that he would be posted to the Road Transport Department but had not heard anything more about it since.

“We have given up hope and we hope Cuepacs can help us. It’s not like we have not tried to find work elsewhere. I have not been able to find another job in the last eight months,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

Former SPAD employees fear they are being taken for a ride as the wait for another government posting stretches into months. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, January 4, 2019.

Nearly 1,000 people lost their jobs when SPAD was shut down shortly after the general election in May last year.

Two weeks ago, 132 former SPAD employees submitted a memorandum asking Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to provide them with work.

They said they were assured by Transport Minister Anthony Loke that they would receive appointment letters by December 15, but the date had come and gone with no job and without any information.

It is learnt that most of the 260 affected are those who worked in SPAD’s legal, licensing and development units.

The Malaysian Insight is awaiting a response from the Transport Ministry for a comment. – January 4, 2019.

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Comments

  • No cable, no work.

    Posted 5 years ago by Z Azmyl · Reply

  • SPAD the Monster robbing poor hard working lorry drivers with bribes. Now is pay back time. Use your rasuah money that Spad has collected under BN UMNO Regime

    Posted 5 years ago by Tharan Singh · Reply

  • Face the reality. Go find work somewhere else. The go6dont owe you a job.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chee yee ng · Reply

  • Balik la... waiting for more Government hand-outs kah?
    Be serious this time a look for proper jobs and work hard & dont hope for any govt handouts!!

    Posted 5 years ago by TTs Take · Reply

  • Why turn to Cuepacs? They are going to help you or the government? If the government cant help you, look for job in the private sector la..

    Posted 5 years ago by TTs Take · Reply