THE Federation of Malaysian Business Associations (FMBA) today suggested that Putrajaya introduce a system to record employee performance to prevent frequent job-hopping.

At a press conference today, its chairman Abdul Malik Abdullah said the government should come up with a record system like CTOS or CCRIS, which evaluates a person’s credit score and financial health based on their payment history.

He said the system could prevent an employee from leaving a job easily and employers from employing those who are more likely to job-hop.

 “We have a lot of issues with foreign workers not being able to come in so we have been using our local workers but we feel like the employees do not work for a very long time,” he said.

 “They work for a very short period and this impacts business terribly so we feel like if there is a possibility, we should have a system similar to CTOS and CCRIS,” he said.

“We need a system where we have records of job hoppers or employees who come and go so that employers will know if a person has changed their many times in a year, that way they can be more careful before employing someone,” he said.

He said although the suggestion sounds harsh, it is helpful to employers, employees, and the government.

“We need to implement this type of system so that people will quit job-hopping for an extra RM50 or for some simple reason,” he said.

Deputy secretary-general Dr Sri Ganesh Michiel said job-hoppers are why businesses are taking a while to recover from the pandemic.

“We have found that some employees lied about their background, for example, some have been involved in criminal activities while some are drug addicts, so this system will be able to help companies before employing someone,” he said.

FMBA joined the call to delay raising the minimum wage.

“We support the call by Minister Azmin Ali to delay the introduction of a new minimum wage because this would hurt businesses,” he said.

Earlier this week, International Trade and Industry Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali said the government needs to consider the SMEs and informal sector before making any decisions to increase Malaysia’s minimum wage.

Malik said Putrajaya should suspend efforts to raise the minimum wage until businesses recover and have sufficient income.

“Failure to do so will result in an increase in prices of products or services that will directly burden all parties,” he said.

Calls to delay the new minimum wage have been criticised by several parties, including the Labour Law Reform Coalition which said that employers should not use Covid-19 as an excuse to not increase their workers’ pay. 

Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan has defended the move, saying the country needs to increase cash flow to revive the economy and to take care of the people’s wellbeing. The ministry is awaiting cabinet approval before introducing it. – March 10, 2022.