HR Asia — January 2018

I N D I A

STATE TRANSPORTS BUSES HALT
SERVICES DUE TO STRIKE

1ear 100,000 of Maharashtra State Road Transport
Corporation (MSRTC) employees held a protest demanding
for the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission
recommendations. On the fourth day of the strike, many went
to the e[tent of shaving their heads. This strike had caused
diffi culties for commuters especially those residing in the rural
areas, to get to another villages as MSRTC is the only mode
of public transportation. The company lost around  crore
rupees from the strike. Mumbai High Court had ruled the strike
as illegal and ordered the workers to stop the protest with an
immediate effect.

H O N G K O N G

DAILY WAGE RISE BUT LESS WORKING
HOURS FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

Despite the increase in daily income for construction workers,
the workers are complaining that they do not have suffi cient
works due to the delays in the Legislative Council. Hong Kong
Construction Industry Employees *eneral 8nion chairperson
Chow Luen-kiu noted that many workers, such as bar benders
and concreters are only for working 13 to 15 days in a month
causing their income to drop signifi cantly, despite the daily wage

increment. Data from 2016 shows that Hong Kong construction

workers used to work 20 to 22 days a month.

EXPERIMENTAL ELDERLY CARE SCHEME

TRAINS 300 DOMESTIC WORKERS

As a way of solving the dilemma surrounding the greying

population in Hong Kong, the Social Welfare Department

alongside the Department of Health of Hong Kong will be

launching an experimental scheme, providing nursing training

to 00 domestic workers in the country. The trial scheme will

be launched in the fi rst Tuarter of 2018. The targets of this

programme are those who are already engaged in home based

elderly care. Each training course takes 11 hours, where domestic

workers will be taught on skills relating to feeding, fi rst aid care

and other areas. During the training course, nearby elderly

centres will accept the elderly employers for temporary care.

S I N G A P O R E

NEW TRIPARTITE STANDARDS TO

AMINISTER WORKPLACE UNHAPPINESS

Singapore has launched the new Tripartite Standard on

Grievance Handling to improve workers’ experience at the

workplace. Suggestion by the new scheme include companies

preparing suitable medium that will allow staff to express their

worries comfortably, concurrently granting those in higher

management to inspect what caused the grief then to respond to

it accordingly. Nevertheless, these standards are optional, hence

it depends on the company whether to adopt it or not. For now,

more than 220 have adopted these standards. More are expected

to join the bandwagon.