Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Message from Management Office to Residents

All residents are reminded not to allow children to play un-escorted in the swimming pool & gardens area. Playing firecrackers unattended is also not encouraged. The management views such conduct as dangerous and will take action against the resident should such conduct continue.

Thank You


Semua warga Hilir Kota diingatkan supaya tidak membiarkan anak-anak mereka bermain tanpa kawalan di kolam renang, & kawasan kebun Pangsapuri. Bermain mercun dan api tanpa pengawasan juga adalah tidak digalakkan.

Pengurusan memandang berat pengabaian ini dan akan mengambil tindakan tegas terhadap warga yang di kenal pasti melakukan perbuatan ini.

Terima Kasih


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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Important Update to Pangsapuri Owners


Kabinet tangguh gaji minimum pengawal keselamatan

June 13, 2010

PUTRAJAYA, 13 Jun — Kabinet memutuskan untuk menangguhkan sementara pelaksanaan gaji minimum baru untuk pengawal keselamatan yang dijadualkan pada 1 Julai ini bagi memberi lebih masa kepada pihak industri berkenaan untuk mengemas kini operasi mereka.

Kementerian Sumber Manusia dalam satu kenyataan di sini hari ini berkata penangguhan sementara pelaksanaan gaji minimum tersebut di bawah Perintah Peraturan Gaji Minimum Pengawal Keselamatan Swasta bagi Semenanjung, Sabah dan Sarawak adalah susulan daripada permintaan Persatuan Perkhidmatan Kawalan Keselamatan Malaysia (PPKKM) kepada pihak kerajaan.

Setelah pengumuman dibuat bagi melaksanakan gaji minimum baru pada 1 Julai 2010, Kementerian Sumber Manusia telah menerima maklum balas daripada PPKKM yang memaklumkan bahawa perintah (peraturan Gaji Minimum) tersebut akan memberi implikasi kepada perniagaan mereka terutama berkenaan kontrak sedia ada.

PPKKM juga memohon supaya kerajaan menangguhkan pelaksanaan perintah itu untuk membolehkan mereka mengambil tindakan untuk mengemas kini operasi mereka sewajarnya, menurut kenyataan tersebut.

Menurut kenyataan itu lagi, setelah mempertimbangkan rayuan PPKKM, Kabinet memutuskan untuk menangguhkan sementara pelaksanaan gaji minimum bagi pengawal keselamatan.

Pada 22 April lalu, Menteri Sumber Manusia Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam mengumumkan kenaikan gaji antara 67 dan 75 peratus kepada pengawal keselamatan bermula 1 Julai ini.

Melalui kenaikan ini, lebih 150,000 pengawal keselamatan dijangka dapat membawa pulang gaji bulanan antara RM1,100 dan 1,450, termasuk bayaran kerja lebih masa dan elaun-elaun.

Beliau dilaporkan berkata gaji minimum pekerja sektor kawalan keselamatan masa ini adalah dalam lingkungan antara RM300 dan RM400 sebulan.

Subramaniam juga dilaporkan berkata keputusan menaikkan gaji itu dilakukan mengikut Akta Majlis Penetapan Gaji 1947 dan berasaskan kepada pelbagai zon geografi.

Berikutan pengumuman penetapan gaji mimimum tersebut, PPKKM telah meminta kerajaan menangguhkan pelaksanaannya sehingga 1 Januari tahun depan.

Presiden PPKKM, Datuk Shaheen Mirza Habib dilaporkan berkata penangguhan itu bagi mengelakkan 300 syarikat pengawal keselamatan Bumiputera di negara ini gulung tikar.

Shaheen berkata pihaknya memerlukan tempoh sehingga enam bulan untuk menyelesaikan masalah berkaitan kontrak perkhidmatan yang membabitkan sektor swasta, syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) dan kerajaan. — Bernama





Government To Go Ahead With Security Guard Pay Hike Ruling

MELAKA, April 27 (Bernama) -- The government will go ahead with the security guard pay hike starting July 1 even if there are security companies not able to do so, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam.

He said any problems arising from the implementation would be resolved by the ministry and the Home Ministry.

"The new pay scheme will be implemented from July 1 as it had been gazetted and issues that cropped up will be resolved," he told reporters after delivering a keynote address at an international conference on dialogue between cultures here last night.

Announcing the pay increase last Thursday, Subramaniam said the take-home pay for workers in the sector after the increase would range between RM1,100 and RM1,450 per month, starting July 1.

Following the announcement, a number of security companies asked the government to provide a mechanism to assist the less able companies to provide the new salary.

-- BERNAMA


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Excerpt taken from the Sun Newspaper:

Beware the next big one

ON May 9, the few million people living on the Malay Peninsula – a thin land mass separated so comfortably from the "Ring of Fire" that forms part of the Indonesian archipelago – were jolted once again from their peace by a powerful earthquake that hit neighbouring Sumatra.

Buildings on the peninsula quivered like rubber-bands, as people rushed out of condominiums, flats, cinemas and shopping malls. For the next couple of days, people spoke about the terrifying experiences – of seeing furniture moving, water splashing from toilet bowls, floors vibrating under their very feet.

Incredibly enough, as intense as the experience was, it seems to have within just a few days subsided from people’s minds, as Malaysians quickly get on with their lives. Most presume, once again, that what we felt was just another harmless "ripple" from an epicentre that hit another country. Most are generally under the assumption that our land, so conveniently buffered by the Malacca Strait is immune from such geological calamities that keep hitting those wretched islands to the west.

How wrong we are. The quake that occurred on Sunday was recorded at 7.1 on the Richter scale off the eastern coast of Sumatra. That is how the event was framed in the news – reinforcing the presumption that quakes keep happening off Sumatra.

What we have conveniently neglected is that this one did not just occur "215km southeast of Banda Aceh"; it also happened only some 500km west of Penang, and about 650km from the metropolis of Kuala Lumpur. This gigantic quake did not just occur in another country; it happened at our doorstep.

And it was a godly reminder of the three "big ones" our region has had since Dec 26, 2004, when a cataclysmic 9.0 earthquake on the Richter scale reverberated off the coast of Aceh, triggering a deadly tsunami across the Indian Ocean. This was followed by an 8.7 quake near Nias on March 28, 2005. And more recently, on Sept 30 last year, Padang on the west coast of Sumatra was hit by a 7.6 temblor.

Each one of them sent frightening jolts across the peninsula; and each time, we have let the experience dissolve, almost as quickly as it happened.

We are gently reminded, again and again, of how close we are to one of Earth’s most dangerous fault lines. And each time, we let the severity slip from our minds, turning it into anecdotes of how we had felt "ripples" of something that actually happened in another country. Little do we realise that peninsular Malaysia rests on a massive Sunda plate that is being literally squeezed and closed in between a huge Indo-Australian plate on the west and a gigantic sub-Philippines plate in the east.

In effect, the Sunda plate has been quietly absorbing pressure from two opposing sides. Something has to give – and already four times over the last six years, the great earth around us has buckled. We should be waking up from our complacent comfort zone. What happens if what has occurred around Sumatra, next happens here? Are we prepared?

Are our buildings safe to withstand such quakes? Should we not be hurriedly looking at mitigating measures in case we are hit by the next "big one"? After what has happened in Sumatra, should not our buildings have extra resistance features like shock absorbers and special steel plates?

Earthquake containment measures also need to be in place in structures like bridges. It is also critical that essential services like hospitals and power plants remain standing in times of disaster. And what about our emergency response networks? How well rehearsed are our Standard Operating Procedures governing agencies – like the police, fire and rescue services, hospitals, district offices – that must be coordinated during a threat?

When the tsunami hit us in 2004, we were taken unawares as something like that had never happened in recorded history. We could be forgiven for not having precautionary measures, as there was no warning sign.

But, in the case of the powerful quakes getting nearer to our shores, we have been warned. We can, of course, choose to respond with complacency. But should a "big one" strike any closer to us in the future, it may then just decide to unleash its wrath in the most unforgiving of manners.

Himanshu is theSun’s Penang bureau chief. Comments: letters@thesundaily.com