FMT - Tudung rule for hotel frontline staff shows ‘private sector arrogance’ (extracts):
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In a Facebook post, Suzanna G L Tan said she was at the JPJ office to transfer the ownership of her car after selling it.
She also posted a photograph of herself outside the office, wearing a blouse with a skirt that ended just above the knee. Another photograph showed her wearing a sarong sitting at the JPJ counter.
"I had to go to JPJ personally to sign the transfer form for the car I sold. That in itself is already a pain," Tan wrote.
"I go dressed like this. Indecent meh?" she asked in reference to her dressing in the photograph.
Tan said while she was at the counter to get a queue number when she was handed a sarong to wear "or they would not entertain me".
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KUALA LUMPUR: The move by certain hotels to prohibit staff from wearing the tudung in frontline positions is due to the arrogance of the private sector in looking down on Malays and Muslims in the country, Deputy Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Tajuddin Abdul Rahman said.
The Umno MP for Pasir Salak said it showed that Malays and Muslims are being marginalised by private companies.
“They are revealing their attitude in requiring one to take off the tudung to work in hotels. What does it show? The arrogance of the private sector.”
“Tomorrow, when our children want to work somewhere, they will say: ‘You do not fulfil the conditions.’”
He said this when officiating at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between TAJ International College and a few public universities and companies here today.
Recently, the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) had defended its members’ policy of barring their frontline staff from donning the tudung, saying it was part of international practice and should not be considered discrimination.
MAH said it was a policy and standard operating procedure (SOP) followed by all hotels worldwide.
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The Umno MP for Pasir Salak said it showed that Malays and Muslims are being marginalised by private companies.
“They are revealing their attitude in requiring one to take off the tudung to work in hotels. What does it show? The arrogance of the private sector.”
“Tomorrow, when our children want to work somewhere, they will say: ‘You do not fulfil the conditions.’”
He said this when officiating at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between TAJ International College and a few public universities and companies here today.
Recently, the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) had defended its members’ policy of barring their frontline staff from donning the tudung, saying it was part of international practice and should not be considered discrimination.
MAH said it was a policy and standard operating procedure (SOP) followed by all hotels worldwide.
But none so arrogant, dismissal and disdainful of non Muslim rights as government bodies such as the police, military and civil service institutes eg. road transport departments (JPJ) etc.
See Star Online's JPJ tells woman to 'cover up' with sarong or be refused service:
PETALING JAYA: A woman had a shock at a Road Transport Department (JPJ) office when she was forced to wear a sarong or be refused service.
In a Facebook post, Suzanna G L Tan said she was at the JPJ office to transfer the ownership of her car after selling it.
She also posted a photograph of herself outside the office, wearing a blouse with a skirt that ended just above the knee. Another photograph showed her wearing a sarong sitting at the JPJ counter.
"I had to go to JPJ personally to sign the transfer form for the car I sold. That in itself is already a pain," Tan wrote.
"I go dressed like this. Indecent meh?" she asked in reference to her dressing in the photograph.
Tan said while she was at the counter to get a queue number when she was handed a sarong to wear "or they would not entertain me".
