tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80701801470663662412012-02-16T19:13:01.251+08:00Kepala mesti rock.Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17834831511518546751noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070180147066366241.post-30962095820247676352010-04-27T23:17:00.002+08:002010-04-28T06:58:25.003+08:00

Hahaha. Not really. But a DI enriches your working experience in ways like no other ways can enrich your working experience. No matter which side of the fence you're on, whether you are the inquiror or the inquiree, emerge victorious or traumatised, a DI will leave its footprint in your inner being long after it's over. I am fresh from yet another DI today. Prosecution isn't the sweetest of

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From now till May, I have to find a question, which for the next 24 months, I have to answer. I have selected the area of unfair dismissal for my thesis, and I now have to find a specific problem regarding unfair dismissal and propose solutions to that problem. My Dean has already listed a few websites for me to look up. I've my own collection of IR cases to read and reread over the weekend.

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Hello. It's been two months since my last post. And I've grown up since then. I've been spending the last phase of my hiatus thinking and rethinking and rerethinking about what I needed to do to change my life. Which of course and needless to say needs to include doing something that I really want and I really like. And I was literally fighting with myself mentally every day to figure that out.

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Today’s edition of Singapore’s Straits Times reports that HR consultancy firm Hudson has reported that more companies will be hiring, paying bigger bonuses and boosting starting salaries of new recruits, based from the findings of a survey involving more than 400 executives nationwide in November 2009. 50% of employers are expecting to pay year end bonuses of more than 10% compared to 28% the

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Happy new year, everyone. No I really mean it. I hope your year is going to be happy. It is important to have a happy year, because misery, unlike annual leave, accumulates and carries itself forward to the following years, where at some point you and your baggage will end up radiating negative vibes to people around you, and when that happens in the office, your colleagues will play Survivor

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Today I disbanded my Facebook HR Group, Rock N Roll HR. I did this was because I personally felt that the Group had not achieved its purpose. When I created the Group I wanted to unite all HR practitioners in JB. Then I opened the membership to all HR practitioners regardless of geographical location. The response was very slow, and not as warm as I would have liked. I persevered and remained

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Research indicates that workplace bullying is widespread and that it is more prevalent that harassment. A survey conducted in the UK reported that 38% of the employees of the National Health Services of the UK experienced bullying and another 42% witnessed the bullying of others. Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik of the University of New Mexico, conducted an online survey in 2007 that included general

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After cooping myself up in my office finishing up my legal work, I segued back into the scene and did some serious checkin' out of various ent venues in JB. Checkin' out is a regular part of a HR practitioner's job. It involves the reconnaissance (or in Manglish, reki) of resources pivotal to the hosting of a HR-related function, such as annual dinners, family days and sports activities, by way

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I was asked by one of my mentees, Ms Nor Zaleha, for caselaw which illustrates the relationship between lack of training and substandard performance. I hope the cases I have selected below shall be of some help to you, Zaleha. In the case of Puncak Niaga (M) Sdn Bhd v Mohd Sulaiman Mohd Yahya [Award No. 282 of 2001] the claimant was employed by the Company as a General Manager. His probation

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This post is an expansion to another post of mine entitled "RUFFLED." about outsourced foreign worker agencies which I wrote on 9 September 2009. Now for those of you whose companies are in the restaurant or other service-oriented businesses, you need to be aware that the Government has now put a very short rein on hiring foreigners for your sector: foreign workers are only allowed to be hired

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Yesterday I was supposed to go to the FMM HR/IR meeting but opted not to at the last minute because I'd some new legal projects assigned. I sent my staff Azizah to go instead. When she came back, she told me that the meeting discussed about worker-hiring issues, the scarcity of local workers and the Government's depressing resrictions placed on foreign worker employment. Sigh. See, that's

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I'd like to share this article written by Byron Mackelroy, first published in HR Resource . I wonder if this works in Malaysia. Once depicted as a trendy social media experiment, Twitter has officially arrived. From cell phone integration to CNN broadcasts, we can no longer escape the fact that Twitter is not a passing fad. The site once criticized for a complete lack of utility has evolved into

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Organising office events is fun. Yet it can also be the most headachy of all headaches. This is because, despite having formed a gung-ho committee in the beginning of things, you will ultimately be running the whole entire show by yourself in the end. There are only two outcomes of an office event. Either a flying success earning you heaps of praise and the appledom of your boss's eye, or a

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Hey guys, you can check out my new blog on http://www.retrorockinsista.blogspot.com/. It's my first blog in Malay, to honour the wishes of some friends who would like me to write in Bahasa Melayu. It's still new though so don't expect too much in terms of gadgetry there.

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The whole situation is like a snake chasing its tail. Employers are hard pressed for manpower. They source for local workers, only to be snubbed in the face for paying "low" salaries.They turn to agents to help bring in foreign workers, only to be told by JTK that the Government is putting a plug on foreign manpower recruitment especially those on outsourcing basis. No man, no work. No work, no

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I recently met two hotshots from Jobstreet.com. We pondered on the feasibility of hosting another HR Networking Event (HRNE) in JB. Despite the obvious beneficial properties such events bestow, the last HRNE met with lukewarm response. On top of that, there is also the question of topic relevance and availability of speakers. I was told that HR Managers from SMIs are hesitant to speak and share

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My first post since Raya. Hope everyone had a good one. I had a long one, and actually am still having it :D I came back from my (long) Raya leave and put my (raw and green and trembling) staff on the stand in a labour court case, warranting her to act on behalf of the Company to prosecute against a notice pay defaulting ex-employee. The first reason why I put her there was because I was too

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Photo copyright of Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakar, 2006 While I was trying to figure out the tales of raya to feature in my blog, a huge wedge lodged itself in the tracks of my thoughts. Hmm. Who are the characters I should feature? My family? My friends? My current colleagues? My ex colleagues? I know so many people. Would anyone of them feel awful if I were to not tell a story about them? Anyway

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Photo copyright of Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakar, October 2008 What can I say mak, you can read my mind. There are no thoughts or feelings of mine that you do not think or feel with me. I wonder if I have really made you happy, or are you only smiling for my sake. Have I hurt you, or do you take it all in stride as a mother? Do you bear a silent grudge, or do you carry out your labour of love for

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One thing I can never understand is why some people have the penchant to negotiate AFTER a deal is done. In the past week some candidates have come back to me after they have accepted our offers and asked me whether they will be getting “any other benefits” apart from the package they have just accepted. I know exactly what they were getting at. If it wasn’t an overture to a haggle, they would

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There’s cause for celebration: my HR team created small history by winning the very first labour case our Company has ever been part of. And what made it sweeter was we were the defence.  The other thing that’s “special” about this case was the fact that we successfully put up the defence of domestic inquiry, sans domestic inquiry notes. One of my staff chucked away the domestic inquiry notes

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The sweet little girl with her cat. Photo copyright of Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakar, September 2009. A few friends of mine run a small help-out activity just before Raya. They do it in an informal, hush-hush way, and in the simplest of forms: visiting the poor and less fortunate and providing them with daily staples and cash assistance so that they can celebrate Raya with adequate food and peace of

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Hahaha! And that's the truth. For 36 years people have been calling me "Melayu". Of course I've always been telling people about my real heritage but then they will resort to calling me "Melayu" again and after a while I get tired so I just humour them. But now I've decided to stop all this travesty because it's really very silly, why be what you aren't? It's been putting me into a spot where

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Photo copyright www.ohartis.com I never talked about it, because a) no one ever asked and b) he was just, well, the boy-next-door back then. It was in 1988, four years before he died. Location: KL. Specific location, I am not saying. :) Oh yes I was a big fan. I played his cassette tapes all the time. But when he moved into our neighbourhood, we somehow weren't all agog about it. I even

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I’ve been having a few good days lately. Many things have been going my way. I received something unexpected yesterday, of which I am thankful. I want to finish all my work before the week ends, because next week is pre-raya week, and normally during such a time I would be in a festive holiday mood. In any case, early work planning always works out well for me. I’ve settled my fitrah and

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The Industrial Court of  Malaysia recently dismissed the complaint of non-compliance of a Collective Agreement clause brought about by The Union of Beverage Industry Workers against the Carlsberg company in The Union of Beverage Industry Workers v Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Berhad & Carlsberg Marketing Sdn Bhd [Award No: 1073 of 2009] which was just decided on 4 September 2009. The complainant

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Hi guys, sorry for not having any new entries in here for more than a week now. I've been occupied at work plus I've been pissed off with some people for the past week. Some people just irk me senseless. My feathers have also been ruffled recently by some foreign worker agencies. I do think that some agencies do not really know what they are supposed to be doing. I found out that some agencies

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Petrol prices are rising. Sugar is becoming scarce. Swine flu is still a threat. Maids are now a luxury. Minimum wage is a fairy tale. Of course, these are phases which, like all phases, will pass. But to ease our agony while we wait, there are a handful of things we still can do to make life bearable. Psychologist Martin Seligman says:- Focus on what you can control. Don't get carried away by

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This case may be of interest to those who are into comparative studies of employment laws in the Commonwealth. In 2000 the Coogi Group of Companies in NSW, Australia restructured themselves, moving 240 people from one company group to a new company group. The post-restructure companies were all companies that had no assets. By moving the 240 employees, the pre-restructure group appeared to have

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Puan Afizah bt Yaakob v. Cosmopoint Sdn Bhd (Industrial Court of Malaysia Award No: 1050 of 2009) sees the triumph of an employer’s transfer order and the lawful termination of a probationary employee without conducting a DI. This case was decided only last Friday, 28 August 2009. The Claimant commenced service with the company as a HR Executive on 1 December 2003. On 2 February 2005, she

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Gavelled Destiny, or GD for short (can also stand for Garden of Death, as in the theme for this blog) is a new special feature of this blog whereby recent cases are highlighted and discussed. Each week I try to feature one industrial court or labour court case of interest from Malaysia and other countries in the Commonwealth. I hope to provide a useful resource for HR students and a good read

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In any social circumstance, there is prejudice. I have heard that prejudice is nothing but an expression of opinion without getting the facts right. This could not be more true. In an organisation where there exists a HR or Admin Department, both of which are usually fused, that fused Department would often be the Department most prejudiced against by the rest. What gave them the right to do

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So good to be back to work after the long weekend. While fine-tuning an agreement at work, I received multiple emails from friends about the buka puasa event tommorow. Seems like everyone's all agog about it. More and more people are adding themselves to the list. Good, good. I want to take the opportunity tommorow to say something. Not a toast, and not a speech, but just seizing the chance to

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You know, I'm not too hot on the concept of Merdeka for two reasons. One, if British colonisation didn't happen in this country, I probably would not have happened myself. And neither would my cousins and our mums/dads and grandmum. Two, I have always thought that we have the British to thank for opening our eyes to modernisation and giving us a headstart to a good education system, and the

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I spent today doing absolutely nothing. It is not too common for me to spend my weekends doing nothing. My typical weekends would either be half spent at the office and half running household errands like grocery shopping, or going on roadtrips for various reasons. Once in a while it feels good to do nothing. It clears your mind off work worries and lets you recharge for the next dose of

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I have kept this baju kurung for three years. It is too precious for me to wear. It was originally presented to me as a piece of 4-metre pure silk batik, together with a chocolate-coloured selendang, by my ex-colleagues in one of the companies I worked for before I came to JB.I served the company for almost 4 years. I do believe that we are fated to work where we work. Today, we may  grumble

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Recently before the fasting month there were sightings around my office premises of a woman in white. She was seen at night by the night shift employees, sitting on the grass verge between the canteen and the administration building and by the window of the training room overlooking the driveway. She seemed to be waiting for someone. At another time, I personally saw someone, or something,

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We in JB watch this on Singapore's Channel 5 every night, and would like to share it with everyone else. And one more for my friends. Here's to waking up to a good Friday, folks.

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Read this. Do you agree? In my humble opinon, the pay should commensurate with the job. That’s all. If a PhD holder wants to do the job of a clerk, then he should be paid for doing the job of a clerk, not for being a PhD holder. If an SPM holder does a brilliant job as a manager, perhaps due to the experience he has garnered over the years, by all means he should be paid in pari passu with

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I don’t do fancy HR. You know the sort. The ones using big words and lots of rhetoric and not much real application to the real world of real HR. The ones where you have to pay through your nose to go for their training courses only to end up sitting in a freezing conference room listening to the trainer grandstanding for three whole days and not really making much sense let alone giving you

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Photo copyright Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakar, 2009 This is a special blog entry for my friend Zaila, who celebrates her birthday today. When we first met, back in 2006 I knew back then that we would click Underneath that prim and proper attire You were wild and full of fire Just like me, and what a surprise Born in the same year, how very nice! You were not like the average PA Not sombong or

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You know what’s one of the most annoying thing for a HR manager? It’s when a candidate sends you multiple emails in response to your job ad, each time shoving his or her resume in your face, practically on his or her knees begging you for at least “an interview at your convenience”, even though he or she is so blatantly obviously not the kid for the cut, then one day you finally have a matching

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Yo folks! Today I share with you a very good article by Bhag Singh on your obligations after you quite your job. Worth thinking over, for those who are contemplating making the leap. You can view the original version here. Quitting your job ARTICLES OF LAW WITH BHAG SINGHWhere an employees is engaged for a fixed term, refusal to continue does not always bring the contract to an end. The

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At a recent HR group meeting in JB, we discussed the recent case of Automotive Manufacturers Sdn Bhd v Ahmad Mohd Som (Award No 361 of 2009). The employee in this case was employed as an operator in the maintenance department of Automotive Manufacturers Sdn Bhd. The Company found that he had been habitually late and frequently failed to swipe in and out his attendance card at the barcode system

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Salam, I'd like to wish all my Muslim friends Selamat Berpuasa. If you are looking for something special to serve your guests for buka puasa, or Raya cookies or cakes with a difference, do visit CRUMB CRAVINGS at http://www.crumbcravings.blogspot.com/ for a range of scrumplicious home made baked goodies! Chocolate lovers will fall in love again and again with SHERA'S CHOCOLATE HEAVEN, a moist,

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I woke up this morning and read this, and this. I'm not suprised, but still appalled, and very intrigued. The scale of society's gullibility has reached a sort of epitome, it seems. I remember reading not too long ago about a couple being cheated in a sale and purchase deal involving a Mercedes Benz. Apparently the deal between the couple and the man selling the car was done at a roadside along

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Am so glad my company is open-minded about Facebook and Twitter. For me thus far Facebook has been a practical and effective implement for the following work-related purposes:- Headhunting Promoting the company's products and restaurants Networking with other HR and employment law professionals and Government officers related to HR and employment law Keeping colleagues in other branches abreast

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Photo copyright Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakar, August 2009. In my company, we organise monthly staff lunch parties, on a Friday lunchtime. HR Dept hosts the parties and makes the arrangements and everyone else chips in the cost of food. In the beginning the parties were hosted to celebrate staff birthdays. Eventually they evolved to becoming an employee relations event, where the office staff have 

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 Photo copyright Mohd Harris Haliman, August 2009 I have a series of albums on Facebook called Fun@Work. They are a collection of photographic memories of the fun I have in my job. It is very possible to have fun while working. But how to bring about that fun, and how long the fun will last, depend a lot on circumstances. But I do beleive that in any case, fun at work is up to you and how you

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I shared this article with my fellow members at Rock 'n' Roll HR. It was written by Camillo Fracassini and was published in http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ in 2006. LONG suffering parents of adolescents might not agree, but scientists claim that listening to rock music can boost your brain power. Researchers at a Scottish university believe that the sound of guitar-based rock such as Jimi

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 Photo copyright of Tahirah Manesah Abu Bakar, May 2009. I have a Facebook group for HR practitioners, studnts and the curious called Roll 'n' Roll HR. Feel free to be part of us. I run the group with some friends and we share articles, thoughts, frustrations, and allsorts in there. So why do I call it Rock 'n' Roll HR? Because I think in the profession one needs to have a rocker mindset. To be

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I've moved Retrosis HR from Wordpress to here because I got tired of Wordpress and I want to start something new somewhere new. The only constant thing with me and Retrosis HR is change, and the irony is that's probably never going to change.

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