A political influencer proposed that the Education Ministry learn from PAS by hiring teachers willing to accept a salary of RM600 without pension or EPF contributions. Earlier, HR Minister Steven Sim called out the PAS-affiliated Islamic educational institute, Pusat Asuhan Tunas Islam (PASTI), for allegedly disregarding their full-time teachers’ rights by severely underpaying them and more, while calling them ‘volunteers‘.
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lately, netizens started to discuss extending the influencer’s model to other ministries, including health and defense as some recalled teachers in Kedah receiving less than RM600 in the past. Are underpaying teachers a thing that is rampant among PASTI institutions? The PAS-linked teachers were called ‘volunteers’ despite many of them coming forward for years about how they were not paid proper wages, were not given pay slips, EPF and SOCSO contributions, despite working 9 to 10 hour days.
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