Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 07:42 PM MYTLawyer Goh Cia Yee handing the petition and signatures to National Young Lawyers and Pupils’ Committee chairman Yusfarizal Yusoff , outside the Wisma Badan Peguam building in Kuala Lumpur December 16, 2020. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
“This was back in 2016, and I understand the highest allowance paid to pupils in KL at the moment is RM4,000. But some students are still being paid RM1,500 or so. “The pay is a mere pittance for us while the partners or senior lawyers can live in luxury and buy expensive cars. When the issue is raised, the excuse of having to be grateful to be given the chance to work is often used to brush it off,” Tan said.
“Many of them work overtime, yet receive no compensation for it. But the work they do save costs for their firms who might otherwise have to outsource such work elsewhere,” Goh said. “It is likely that us speaking out about this will lead to hate speech and cyberbullying directed at us. Already several of my peers and myself have been getting calls from anonymous individuals demanding to know who we are to be speaking out,” he said.
Is this necessary?
Should clients being cheated by lawyers grandstanding in front of Bar building?
Grandstander!
Wowzer izzetzen
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