HRDF Appoints New Chairman, Announces Six-Point Action Plan
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Datuk Noor Farida Mohd Ariffin has been appointed as the new chairman of the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF), effective January 1, 2019. Previously the Malaysian ambassador to the Netherlands, she also serves on the boards of Ecoworld Development Group Bhd and Aerospace Technology Systems Corp Sdn Bhd.
In a statement, HRDF said Noor Farida had a long and distinguished public service career. “Datuk Farida is a proven leader and her appointment as the chair will be invaluable. The fund also expresses its appreciation for the leadership of the board’s deputy chairman, Datuk Quah Thain Khan, during a period of great change for the fund,” HRDF said.
Bringing wrongdoers to justice
HRDF recorded a 23% growth in registered employers in 2018, bringing its registered tally to over 26,000 employers, who cumulatively provide jobs to 2.3 million Malaysians. For 2019, HRDF wants to continue its internal investigations that started in July 2018. It plans to bring all errant stakeholders including training providers, trainees and staff who connived with them to justice.
According to the statement, HRDF said “The fund has already filed reports to the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission; it has also filed civil claims against trainees for submitting false particulars. In the meantime, civil claims will soon be filed against errant training providers. These efforts build on the report delivered by the five-member Governance Oversight Committee in November 2018 and made publicly available by the fund at its website.”
HRDF in 2019
In addition, HRDF also plans to train 1.2 million Malaysian employees in 2019 and create job-ready youths and graduates (especially from among low-income families). It will also review and upgrade its long-standing train-the-trainer programme to increase the quality of its training professionals as well as become an employer of choice that will continue to promote diversity and inclusion to better serve its clients and stakeholders.
Last year, HRDF announced that over 7,000 eligible employers failed to register with the fund. These employers risk of being fined of up to RM10,000 or one-year of jail sentence if convicted.
The HRDF is also conducting on-site inspections to ensure if the monthly levy payments tally with the number of loyal employees employed by the registered employers.
All of these are comprised within its six-point action plan that it wants to implement in 2019 to strengthen itself and increase the proportion of skilled labours within Malaysia.
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