Human Resources: Penang council to train its workers to be more efficient

The Penang Municipal Council in Malaysia is to spend the equivalent of $185,000 for training program and courses to upgrade its workforce next year. Council president Datuk Ahmad Phesal Talib said the employees must be well trained to meet present and future challenges.

Commenting on human resource problems, he announced the services of nine contract workers and one permanent staff had been dispensed with due to attitude problems - "Some of them were absent from work while some go missing when on duty. We do not tolerate such workers. We must be strict.

That would never work here - it would be Un-Australian to expect to workers to actually work.