Dreaming of a legislature with integrity
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 | 1:52 am @ SK
Yesterday, Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn announced stiff punishment on employers who fail to act or investigate complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace.
"This will ensure all employers treat sexual harassment cases seriously and investigate all complaints of such nature."
Interestingly, a few days ago, two MPs who uttered sexist remark in the parliament (who had since apologized as per instruction from the PM), run away clean and safe. Not the first time, not the second time and it’s not going to be last time. One too many times.
So, if sexual harassment is a crime in the workplace, how about sexist remark in Parliament? The existence of parliament privilege doesn’t mean sexual harassment is allowed, especially when we’re talking about parliament as the highest legislative authority for our country. There is always a place and time for everything.
With power comes responsibility. In this case, when the popular saying no longer works, do ourselves a favor by carrying out the constitutional responsibility and remove the people’s representative who abused the power entrusted to them, then only we can dream of having a world class parliament, a legislature with integrity.
Otherwise, a dream will remain a syok sendiri dream, until the day you dozed off for good.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:24 am
May 17th, 2007 at 11:59 am
All the monkeys including the zoo-keeper should be sent to Science Lab for researched for their behavioral which had been amounting to unnamed species found on earth, Discovery Channel and NatGeo will be very interested to document the finding.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Well said, SK.
In this case, when the popular saying no longer works, do ourselves a favor by carrying out the constitutional responsibility and remove the people’s representative who abused the power entrusted to them, then only we can dream of having a world class parliament, a legislature with integrity.
I wonder how many of us (voters) dare to take it as challenge for better Malaysia!
May 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Sorry, typing mistake. It should be -
Well said, SK.
I wonder how many of us (voters) dare to take it as challenge for better Malaysia!
May 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
[…] SK had good points on this With power comes responsibility. In this case, when the popular saying no longer works, do ourselves a favor by carrying out the constitutional responsibility and remove the people’s representative who abused the power entrusted to them, then only we can dream of having a world class parliament, a legislature with integrity. […]
May 18th, 2007 at 4:45 am