Finance minister: No job cuts with civil service privatisation
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng speaks at the Invest Malaysia 2019 conference in Kuala Lumpur March 19, 2019. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
“Referring to the privatisation done in the eighties, where for example Telekom Malaysia ™, which under the government at that time and the workers were then, of course, absorbed to the new corporatise TM. On the timeline of the privatisation of the civil service, he said this would depend on proposal and discussion with the affected workers.
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