Social injustice in the workplace

This is an old issue. Nevertheless, I still want to highlight it here for us to give a thought.

If you have been working with a private company owned by non-bumis or in a government office headed by non-bumi bosses, I think you would probably have known very well what is meant by social injustice in the workplace. Racial discrimination prevails, but the authority seems to close one eye. Examples of publicly demonstrated discrimination, but not limited to:

Treatment

When the boss is a non-bumi, surely the non-bumi staff are well treated. The boss would treat his staff like his own brothers and the bumiputera staff are sidelined. Furthermore, they are also very good at polishing their boss’s balls.

Benefits / Promotions

This is an area where our bumiputera staff are being critically neglected and sidelined. If you are to compare the contributions of bumiputera staff against non-bumi staff in any organization, there are no differences at all. They all contributed to the similar percentage of the cakes. Then, the questions is why non-bumi staff got better benefits and enjoy better promotion chances as compared to bumiputeras? Yet, the bumiputeras are the indigenous people who have all the rights to these social justice?

Displinary

Again, this is another area of concern amongst bumiputera staff. When the non-bumi staff committed grave disciplinary offences, they seems to get pardoned easily compared to bumiputera staff who must adhere strictly to the company’s rules and regulations. In another terms, non-bumi staff working in an organization headed by a non-bumi is being protected and treated well.

When will this nepotisme / aristocratic practices vanish from our beloved Sarawak land? When will somebody be daring enough to stand up against all these racial discrimination and social injustices in our workplace?

All races whose roots existed from the soil of Sarawak are considered natives. But,why can’t we become a united Sarawakian and not follow whatever practices they have in semenanjung? Why can’t we be Sarawakian Malaysian, whereby we don’t diffentiate ourselves by race and creed. Why can’t we be one and not divide ourselves by our colours