Utusan Melayu ordered to pay two months bonus to staff

KUALA LUMPUR: Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) Bhd, which owns Utusan Malaysia, has been ordered to pay backdated two months' bonus to its employees for 2009.

Industrial Court president Susila Sithamparam, in her award handed down on May 24, held that the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), which brought the case to the court, had proven that Utusan Melayu made a profit in 2009. She said Utusan Melayu had declared its group profit for 2009 at RM5.121mil in its Annual Report.