YOURSAY ‘Now he wants to win votes from bumis by forcing private sector to hire them.’                        

PM tells private sector to hire more women, bumis

Slumdog: "We champion inclusiveness not just because it is a foundation for political stability and economic growth but because it is right," said PM Najib Razak.

Najib, which management textbook did you get this quotation from? How many women and non-bumiputeras do you have in senior positions in the Prime Minister’s Department and how many women ministers and women deputy ministers do you have in your government?

If you want to preach inclusiveness and ethnic diversity, look at yourself and your own government first rather than trying to force the private sector to do what you yourself and your ministers fail to achieve.

What is the percentage of non-bumiputeras in the high echelons of the civil service, let alone in lower-grade positions?

CQ Muar: Najib sure can wield his power before a local audience like the country's top employers and harped on such issues because he needed to bolster support for fear of losing come GE14.

Najib, if you're sincere about equality, how come most civil services in the country consist of one race?

Requesting top companies to absorb bumiputeras to top posts just to meet your twisted ideology or quotas without considering skill, competency, academic excellence and merits is a clear manifestation of sheer stupidity.

We're not being racist and are against bumiputera (not in the least), but your warped mentality is off the mark and just doesn't make sense.

You're indeed a great preacher, but a poor practitioner - therefore, just drop your hypocritical act. Lead the austerity drive starting with yourself, family and cabinet ministers.

Set a good example and spare us the preaching and bossing around with your bullshiting. We've heard and seen enough.

Milosevic: I do not know why the PM thinks diversity in the private sector will be good for the country. The Malaysian bureaucracy and GLCs are marked by ethnic uniformity, leading to, according to the ruling deadbeats, a country envied by many.

Malaysia's model is based on racism, racial apartheid, the vicious division of the population by the government and its propaganda agencies, narrow, fascistic religious thinking, an ingrained feudal mentality, and with second-rate imams, politicians, professors and thinkers running the show.

So why change a successful model? Maybe diversity, tolerance, consistency and rationality are not very good things. Keep the course and don't change the Malaysian way. Hypocrisy and inconsistency have put us on the map.

DontPlayGod: So finally he has come out to say this on behalf of Umno because the government service can no longer take in more Malay graduates.

How come you don't ask government departments and GLCs (government-linked corporations) to take in more non-Malays? How come we don't hear you tell the government departments to award more scholarships to non-Malays?

Oh, I see, your instructions are to "do what I tell you, but don't follow what I (read Umno) do."

LifeFlier: A competitive private company differs from public sector - its hiring is based on market needs, skill shortages and qualification.

Najib, if the government has done the proper human capital planning and created an effective tertiary education system many years back, the graduates or manpower you have produced now will fit well into Malaysian job market demands without much of your worry.

I can sense that you must be very concerned about the government continuing to absorb the bumiputeras into the present bloated public service sector, which will deteriorate the fiscal deficit because of their humongous payroll.

P Dev Anand Pillai: It is a pity that this PM just reads what his speech writer writes for him, and never seems to understand what his policies and that of his predecessors have done to the very bumiputeras whom he is trying to help.

How on earth are we supposed to pay more, when we don't make enough and the people that we are supposed to hire are just half-baked nincompoops who can't speak any English?

The private sector hires the best, whether you are brown, yellow or black, Muslim or non-Muslim, man, woman or cross in-between - the private sector hires what's worth its money.

Debater: Yes, and Najib should champion diversity in the public-funded universities choice courses like medicine, dentistry, etc, the civil service and government-linked companies.

They are already 90 percent bumis. And he should note that private enterprises are not charity organisations.

Onyourtoes: Currently, if wages only made up 32.9 percent of the GDP, it is because of SMI (small and medium industries) and Chinaman companies where the workers work like bulls but earn very little.

Certainly it is not due to GLCs underpaying their staff. Just look around you, which GLCs really create real value in our economy. GLCs overpay their under-worked staff, that is for sure.

Malaysian Down Under: Not satisfied with manipulating the racial make-up of the government and government agencies, they're now forcing the agenda down private companies.

I'm a director here in Australia, and I earned my position fair and square. I am fed up to the eyeballs with this racial agenda and become an Australian citizen next month.

Anonymous #69337042: This useless PM has already abandoned his empty 1Malaysia slogan and now he wants to win more votes from the bumis by forcing the private sector to employ more bumis regardless if they are employable.

Ex-PJ: We have a clown as PM who does not have the confidence to take questions from the international press in announcements regarding MH370 and who has demonstrated a complete lack of leadership.

So why should anyone take him seriously?  

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