Cases of ‘creative accounting’ to meet RM1,500 policy

PETALING JAYA: Instances of companies cutting workers’ allowances and using this to increase their basic salary has caught the eye of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC).

Its president Mohd Effendy Abdul Ghani said it had received complaints that bosses were employing such tactics in order to meet the new national minimum wage of RM1,500.