Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC)

The MTUC is a federation of trade unions and registered under the Societies Act, 1955. It is the oldest National Centre representing the Malaysian workers. The Unions affiliated to MTUC represent all major industries and sector with approximately 500,000 members.

Our functions

a. To do everything to promote the interest of it’s affiliated organisations, to improve the economic and social conditions of workers and render them assistance.

b. To ensure that policies are developed and action taken to ensure full employment, to work towards the establishment of a minimum wage a legal maximum working week of 44 hours and to establish training centres and extension of training facilities for workers.

c. Provision for legislated Social Security measures to provide protection against sickness, unemployment, old age, injury, invalidity and retiring benefits and promotion of high standards of health, hygiene and welfare in all places of employment and seek adequate compensation for workers disabled by accidents and diseases.

Our programmes:

MTUC is pursuing its efforts to establish the following:

a. minimum wage law;
b. five-day work;
c. increase in rate of EPF contribution and SOCSO benefits;
d. amendments to the present labour laws – Employment Act, Trade Union Act and Industrial Relations Act;
e. lifting of restrictions for the formation of bigger unions by workers from related trades;
f. organising the large number of workers yet to be organised including workers in the Free Trade Zone Area;
g. influx of guest workers;
h. retraining for retrenched workers, re-employment of retrenched workers.

The trade union movement in Malaysia has today changed its traditional role of merely promoting bread and butter issues of its members. It is today involving itself in the economic development of the country. MTUC activities are geared to promote equality, improve living standards of workers and create a better and safer working environment.