Labour Day, celebrated across the world today, is an honour to all workers who have been the pillar of the country’s economic development and prosperity for a long time.
Human Resource Minister V. Sivakumar said in recognising the importance of the role of workers as determinants of productivity levels, the celebration of Labour Day continues to commemorate the contribution workers have made towards the economic development of the country. Without workers, all the Government’s plans under the Malaysia Madani Agenda will definitely not come true.
The government is determined and committed to continue to defend the fate of the workers including looking after the welfare and maintaining the rights to safety, health and social welfare of the workers including their family members.
Speaking at the national-level Labour Day celebration today, Sivakumar said workers are called upon to equip themselves with the latest knowledge and improve competence in order to be relevant and remain competitive in an increasingly challenging employment sector.
“This is important to ensure that the pool of workers available are those who can respond to the challenges of the industry and are always ready to make changes in line with the current development of the industry that requires highly skilled labour in the labour market. It will also enable Malaysia to achieve the target of having a skilled workforce of 35% by 2030.
“I would like to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all Malaysian workers for their sacrifice, commitment and contribution to help the Government in developing the country’s economy. Continue to be united and maintain your efforts, commitment, creativity, innovation and excellent work culture because you are the catalyst in achieving the vision and mission of the concept of Madani Malaysia,” Sivakumar said at the event held at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre today (May 1).
The celebrations held under the theme of “Pekerja Pemangkin Wadah Malaysia Madani” at which some 3,000 workers from government and private sectors, ministries as well as unions gathered for the first time after the global Covid-19 pandemic. The last was in 2019. under the themed there was also
There are 77 contingents such as the Fire and Rescue Department, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the Road Transport Department, Pos Malaysia, Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad and Congress of Unions of Employees in Public and Civil Services who witnessed live music as well as traditional and cultural performances.
Then national event was officiated by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
