Mansuh pencen: Mulakan dengan wakil rakyat

PEMUDA Umno mencadangkan supaya rancangan pemansuhan skim pencen dimulakan dengan wakil rakyat sebagai kumpulan sasar terawal sebelum dikembangkan ke pihak lain.

Ketuanya Dr Akmal Saleh berkata sayap Umno itu memahami tekanan kewangan yang sedang ditanggung oleh kerajaan ketika ini sehingga memerlukan kepada pemansuhan pencen penjawat awam.

“Tetapi biarlah pemansuhan skim pencen ini dimulakan oleh wakil-wakil rakyat terlebih dahulu.

“Tidak adil jika kita mansuhkan pencen mereka (kakitangan awam, tetapi kita (wakil rakyat) pula menikmati pencen sehingga mati.

“Tiada dua darjat antara wakil rakyat dan rakyat,” katanya dalam satu hantaran di Facebooknya, hari ini.

Semalam, Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, memaklumkan kabinet bersetuju supaya perjawatan baru bagi kakitangan awam – yang berstatus tetap selama ini – akan ditukar kepada tidak berpencen.

Katanya satu pengumuman mengenai tempoh dan tarikh pelaksanaannya akan dibuat Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Awam (KPPA).

Dia berkata, bagi penjawat awam tetap sedia ada, status pencen mereka tidak akan terjejas, manakala penjawat awam baru itu kelak akan membuat caruman kepada Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP).

Akmal berkata Pemuda Umno berharap cadangan yang dilontarkan itu didengar oleh semua pihak termasuk pemimpin kerajaan mahupun pembangkang.

“Kerana kami percaya atas prinsip kepimpinan melalui teladan.

“Mohon cadangan ini diambil kira dan dipersetujui oleh semua wakil rakyat sama ada dari kerajaan mahupun pembangkang,” katanya.

 

Abolish pension should start with assemblymen

THE abolishment of the pension scheme should first start with the people’s representatives before it is implemented to civil servants, said Umno Youth.

Its chief Dr Akmal Saleh said while everyone understood the financial burdens of the government, it was unjust to only remove pensions for people working in the public sector.

“It is unfair if we only abolish their (civil servants’) pensions, but we (representatives) enjoy receiving pensions until the end of our lives.

“There are no double standards when it comes to the people’s representatives and the people,” he said, adding that Umno Youth believed in leading by example.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the cabinet had agreed that new permanent hires in the public service would not be pensionable.

An announcement on its implementation date would be made by the Public Service Department director-general.

Zahid had said existing civil servants would not be affected by the new scheme.

Meanwhile, Dr Akmal said he would raise this matter during Umno’s Working Committee Council meeting tomorrow night.

He said he felt that their views were important and should be considered by the unity government.

“I will raise this during the meeting tomorrow. We want to ensure that the welfare of the public, especially former civil servants, are being taken care of,” he said.

 

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