Perodua will continue with locals-only hiring policy

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Amidst news that 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh will be brought to Malaysia, Perodua will not change its policy of employing only Malaysians. This was said by Perodua president and CEO Datuk Aminar Rashid Salleh at the MoU signing between Perodua and PERDA yesterday, in response to questions from the media.

Aminar explained that other than a small group of Japanese expat engineers and managers from partner Daihatsu, the company’s payroll is fully local, and it will remain so.

Under the MoU, the Penang Regional Development Authority (PERDA) will offer its PERDA-TECH facility to Perodua for the latter to use as a technical training centre, as well as accommodation for Perodua’s trainers in the northern region. Perodua will supply training material such as electronics, machines and training cars – just like in a Perodua service centre – to be shared with PERDA-TECH, which has automotive certificate and diploma courses.

With the carmaker’s input (its trainers will train PERDA’s trainers) and the provision of industrial training for PERDA’s students, the youths will acquire skills that are tailored to the industry’s needs. Perodua has the first right of refusal in the hiring of PERDA-TECH graduates.

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Comments

  • Dodol on Feb 19, 2016 at 9:54 am

    Yeah… The graduates should do better toilet cleaning at the factory.

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    • Typical Malaysian

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      • Songlap Songlap Malaysia on Feb 19, 2016 at 10:36 am

        I pity Malaysian women now. Already got 6 million Banglas in Malaysia unofficially. With this amount, it will be 7.5 million Banglas.

        And Malaysian population is 30 million (including the banglas). Anyway, let us assume half the population are women and the other half are men.

        This would mean there are 15 million women. Where are these Malaysian women going to find non Bangladeshi husbands?

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        • Malaysian women to demanding, wan 10C now plus parent inlaw wan another 5C. Prospective partners cekik darah

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    • Gargantia on Feb 19, 2016 at 10:08 am

      Still way better then letting the country money FLY to others country, Malaysia market are suffering Rakyat are struggling yet cronies let the market money went to Banglasia?!!! Just wondering it can help the current market?!!! Rakyat please wakeup !!!

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      • Rakyat still wan easy opis job with high pay and no stress, otherwise they wun do 3D

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  • krs189 on Feb 19, 2016 at 10:03 am

    Bab sembang memang keraih….
    Dekat assembly plant hangpa memang la, cuba tgk vendor-vendor hangpa?

    Lagi satu Jepun yg hangpa gajikan sampai tinggi mengalahkan golongan professional? bukan pekerja asing?
    Dahla jawatan depa kat sini tinggi dan macam2 elaun, tapi tengok2 kat Jepun level rendah ja, level operator ja, tak pun paling tinggi supervisor.

    Adakah Anda masih lagi mudah tertipu?

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    • Yes,go to kota kemuning see the japan company supplier carpet for toyota daihatsu isuzu and produa,few hundred of banglades…and same the vendor of proton mold plastic interior ,gearbox suis and headlamp ….also few hundred banglade….

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  • King tatta on Feb 19, 2016 at 10:04 am

    Who cares

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  • My 2 cents on Feb 19, 2016 at 10:28 am

    Many big corporations which claim to employ 100% locals are bullshitting. They outsource secondary services or even part of their production line (eg. packing section) to contractors which employ foreign workers. Can Aminar claim 100% of his security guards, cleaners, store hand, gardener are locals?

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  • 4G63T DSM on Feb 19, 2016 at 11:28 am

    2 problems I can see.

    1) Can perodua mandate that all its supplier/vendors also follow the same requirement? if not, then it’s really moot point.

    2) Having imported CKD kits and imported parts also goes against the 100% local labour, because obviously those are made with foreign labour.

    Its actually a lot harder than they make it sound.

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  • BAMyouhaveAIDS on Feb 19, 2016 at 11:54 am

    of course lah continue employing locals, what is there in perodua? no designing, no safety improvement just copy paste. Why need expats to work? Locals good enough just sit in factory goyang kaki make sure machines can copy paste daihatsu products well

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    • superman on Feb 19, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      at least they are not like Proton. proton employ expats and then make them runway from proton. same with their two German top bosses who resigned in less than one year just recently. P2 is under Japanese rule so its different.

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  • nabill (Member) on Feb 19, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    I believe non of this, dont tell me their record have no foreign worker in their database… Heck, those japanese guys im pretty sure are overseeing their operations n all….
    I just dont feel comfortable with this bad sentiment against foreigners to be honest, if u dont like the decision, direct ur hatred and anger towards the people who decided to bring them not the foreigners themeselves, 99% of them here are jus making an honest living, with rock bottom salaries and the worst working conditions u can imagin… Lets have some humanity abit… It doesnt give u any right to look down on them n practive ur inner hidden racism on them… Lets all grow up

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  • At least perodua workers will spend their money locally, making our domestic economy tick, as opposed to being like foreign workers flocking to money transfer centres on payday, outflowing money out of the country. Nasib baik there are many malaysian foreign workers jamming up the border crossings being cheap labour in singapore bringing in SGD into Johor everyday to counter the outflow.

    Good job P2.

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  • I been to Tanchong Factory before and they hired alot foreigner worker, factory should hire local but not foreigner? right.. all hire foreigner will cause more and more malaysia jobless.

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  • i thought they just hire somebody from nissan for quality? or is this nissan guy local also? if local, mampos la…

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  • 2ltr bottle on Feb 20, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Once TPPA sets in, Toyota will have no use of P2. It will bought all P2 shares like it did to Daihatsu and fully utilised the facilities it have here to produce Toyota cars. No need to setup factory and employ workers because P2 already has it. Toyota will become the no.1 car company in this region, second will be Honda. P2 will be reduce to a company that only produce car parts for Toyota. That’s why P2 CEO says TPPA will hurt national cars because he knows what will happens to P2 future. Toyota doesn’t care about national car policy, all it wanted is to make profits.

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