PETALING JAYA | Employers who are offering job vacancies are not obligated to show the actual salary in the advertisement, human resources minister V Sivakumar said.
According to him in a written parliamentary reply, employers are only required to provide the salary range offered.
In order to ensure that workers’ rights were upheld, Sivakumar responded to a query from the DAP MP from Kepong about whether the government intended to make it mandatory for firms to reveal precise salaries in job postings.
He continues that such criteria only apply to businesses that employ foreign workers and expatriates, and vacancies on the MYFutureJobs website.
Lim urged the government to adopt policies for mandatory salary disclosure in job advertisements to help with the brain drain problem in Malaysia last August.
He adds that companies that did not disclose salaries had contributed to paying employees a lower salary than what they deserved to be paid.
The Malaysian Employers Federation had also said in August that wage disclosure would limit the compensation to which a potential candidate for new jobs would be eligible.
Its president, Syed Hussain Syed Husman said that leaving compensation scales out of job postings may allow candidates to defend their salary expectations based on their backgrounds and skill sets.
