Last tuesday, our Managing Director, Mr Amir Isyam Abdul Rahim, had the honour to moderate the WWF-Malaysia side event “A Shared Platform for Business Growth and Nature Protection: Incentivising Growers Towards RSPO Certification” held in conjunction with RT2025. The session…
Our Managing Director, Amir Isyam Abdul Rahim, has been featured in The Star with his article titled “Make Talent Emerge from Complex Digital World.” In the article, Amir dissects the harsh reality behind Malaysia’s digital transition — the technology is…
IMPStoriesTold 🚀 Celebrating the Launch of the Gender Action Lab (GAL) Summit & WEPs Awards Malaysia! 🏆 We are thrilled to have been part of the GAL Malaysia Summit 2024, where UN Women Asia Pacific, TalentCorp, and LeadWomen united to…
Our managing director, Amir Isyam Abdul Rahim‘s article on navigating the delicate balance between compliance and entrepreneurship has been featured in StarBiz7, the Star Media Group Berhad’s premier weekly business newspaper for industry insiders. In it, he explores the challenges faced by…
The Progressive Wage Policy is one of the government's strategies to increase the wages of middle-income workers, thereby enhancing the employee compensation (CE) share within the remaining period of the 12th Malaysia Plan and the next 10 years.
To actually solve the core issue, my alternative and unorthodox suggestion is the creation of an Account 3 in the EPF funds for all newborn Malaysians whose minimum funds will be wholly paid out by the Government progressively as the parents meet certain goals in raising that next generation.
Recently there have been quite a number of news updates on EPF. It was reported that they want to handle the current retirement sufficiency and livelihood balance with 2 proposals which some are calling the silver bullet for this issue.
For the record, I am not in favour of making the minimum wage mandatory for internships. And from a pure support perspective on the issue, the fact that public opinion is spilt doesn't make it realistic to do so. The economic argument against is sound while the exploitation argument is also sound. It's not likely you can or should make mandatory the current minimum wage (RM1500) for interns at this point nor is it fair to continue to allow companies to not provide any wages and/or provide minimal wages for internships.
Let’s talk about the plan of Human Resource Development Corporation (HRD Corp) to charge RM300 per participant per course for the new microcredential initiative that has the industry riled up. Recently HRD Corp announced plans to create and regulate microcredentials…
