Time for govt to manage Zoo Negara donations | The Malaysian Insight

THE Zoo Negara management is again seeking donations, this time citing the ongoing movement control order as reason behind a drastic drop in gate collections and public donation is needed for the upkeep of the animals.

Last July, former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Latheefa Koya assured that the anti-graft body would probe into allegations of financial abuses and mismanagement in Zoo Negara. Sadly, there has not been a single update on the progress of the investigations, if any. We have written to the Water, Land and Natural Resources Ministry under the then Pakatan Harapan government which gave assurances that the issue would be resolved but no concrete nor transparent action was ever taken.Until today, the management has refused to pay the workers their entitlements involving salary adjustments and arrears as well accrued bonuses as ordered by the Industrial Court on October 10.

To further frustrate the workers, the management refused to even prepare the agreed articles of the CA that was not part of the court’s award. The Zoo Negara union members who have fallen victims to such underhand tactics are general workers earning meagre salaries. Despite 20 years in service, some of them are merely earning about only RM2,000 a month, a sum grossly inadequate to run a household in Kuala Lumpur.

MTUC has no objections and welcomes anyone donating to the well-being of the animals and to upkeep the Zoo Negara.

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