Minimum wage details out on Labour Day

The Star 
by ZUHRIN AZAM AHMAD

PUTRAJAYA: Details of the highly-anti-cipated minimum wage will be announced on May 1 - Labour Day.

Until then, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said he would not make any comment on the issue.

“If I tell you now, I would be letting the cat out of the bag,” the Prime Minister said after launching the country's first lightweight composite Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder here yesterday.

Separately, Najib lambasted DAP for opting out of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the Lynas rare earth plant, saying the issue had to be handled by all quarters as it needed a solution above partisan politics.

“It is not a question of politics; it is a question of the interest of the people and the country. I don't understand why they are boycotting it,” he said.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had said it was to avoid Barisan Nasional from using the Opposition's presence in the committee to “legitimise the Lynas plant”.

Najib also declined to comment on former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin's predictions on Barisan's performance in the general election.

Daim, a long-time Umno treasurer, told Nanyang Siang Pau that Barisan was expected to win easily only in Johor, Malacca and Pahang.

In Shah Alam, Najib called on students to consider all information they receive with maturity and wisdom.

“Freedom with responsibility. That will be our philosophy when amending the University and University Colleges Act.

“We don't want to close your minds. Go and listen to all sides, and then make a consideration with maturity and wisdom.

“They (Opposition) can promise the sun, the moon and the galaxy. They can promise, but we can deliver,” he said when launching the Yayasan Sukarelawan Siswa (Student Volunteer Foundation) at Universiti Teknologi Mara here yesterday.

In KUALA LUMPUR a day earlier, Najib, who went for a routine check-up at the National Heart Institute (IJN), said he has been given a clean bill of health.

He advised fellow Malaysians to go for regular check-ups.

“I did my regular check-up at IJN yesterday (Tuesday). Doctors gave me a clean bill of health, Alhamdullilah. I suggest more people do regular check-ups,” Najib tweeted yesterday morning.

The Prime Minister also wished the best for parents waiting for their children's SPM results, which was announced later in the day.