Bullying Part Time Workers

Many people especially teenagers and student finished their SIJIL PELAJARAN MALAYSIA and waiting for University intake like to find part-time job. As usual, they want money to shopping, experience and depends on each individual goal. It may be that you simply want to have a different work-life balance, or they have caring responsibilities.

Mostly, they find the job at Hotel, Boutique and Telekom as promoter (unifi). The question is, did you notice that your supervisor always gave you heavy work?

Based on my experience, when i was 17 after i finished my SPM, i work at Hotel Sri ******* as a waiter. At the initial start my supervisor like being nice to me but after 8 days i works there and he suddenly treat me like coolie. He order me to go banquet area and i from coffee house area. At coffee house i work for 6 hours (8am - 2pm) and he ordered me to work another 13 hours at banquet area (2.30 pm -3.30 am). I said no and he said "then u don't come tomorrow" and "you can't get salary". After that case, i report to my friend works at there too and he just said it's normal.

Imagine that you can sleep only 4 hours after doing a heavy works. As we know, human at least need to sleep as much 7-5 to 9 hours per night to function their best. During sleep, the body has time not only to rest, but also to restore, recovery and rejuvenate. In fact, while a person sleeps, the body heals itself so once awake, the individual get feels refreshed, focused, and energetic. Good sleep is important because it helps improve concentration and memory formation and it allows our body to repair any cell damage that occurred during the day refreshes immune system and which in turn helps to prevent disease.

If you does not get enough sleep, your muscle gain are limited, your body become stale and not strong enough and troubling in antibody system. Lack of sleep also may caused heart problem and also high blood pressure.

For Telekom workers (promoters). Do you noticed that when you going to grab lunch with your friends and you will see a couple of man with orange t-shirt carrying file. Actually they start works at 11 am to 10 p.m. They cannot rest and must keep working and finding new customer.

In this case we can say they exposed to heat stress and may cause heat strain and because of over sweat and headache (hot fever). They keep walking and finding new customer for 9 hours. We all know that temperature at Malaysia is high when afternoon (12pm - 4.30pm).

So, as a conclusion, employer should consider when giving jobs to their employee. Employer also should consider size and physical person. If he or she have a skinny body, employer shall give more lighter work to them. Employer also should "berperikemanusian" so that the workers will not hate to their employer and can provide harmony environment in workplace and improve status at workplace.

Do job rotation system and do not ordered same people to work, communication between workers and employers should take care and do respect each other. Avoid from stress and do not bring personal problem in the workplace because that is one factor that can lead to stress.

Give adequate rest to promoter workers. Provide at least two mineral water and one set lunch to their workers so that they have energy in doing jobs. If weather to hot, employer shall give them more rest or provide umbrella to them. For ourselves, we must brave to report any problems to Human Resource Department.

And lastly, In section 15 OSHA 1994, it shall be duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is practicable, the safety, health and welfare at work of all his employees.