National Union of Journalists Malaysia

From left: Asst. Secretary Noorsila Abdul Majid, Treasurer Cecil Fung, Secretary Jacobus Raj, Chairperson SS Yoga and committee members Teh Eng Hock and Elizabeth Tai.

On June 19, the National Union of Journalists Star Branch held their biennial general meeting.

The BGM achieved quorom around 4.15pm.

During the BGM, the union briefed members about the recent CA and NUJ secretary general Hong Boon How spoke of how the 41% hike of petrol prices will effect the current and future CA.

The union also answered queries from members.

Members were also briefed about the Union’s new committee members.

BGM adjourned around 5.05pm.

The CA 2007 is now available in PDF format: nujstar-ca-2007.pdf.

To download the CA, right click on the link and select “Save Link As”.

CA 2004 is also available on this website.

To make it easier for you to calculate your arrears, you can download this simple Excel file to do the deed: salary-arrears-estimator.xls

To save the file, right click and choose “Save Link as” or “Save as”.

Now that the new CA has been signed, you’re probably curious how much your arrears will be.

Just calculate it using this formula:

(New CA salary (as at Feb 1, 2007) - Salary as at Feb 1, 2007) x 13

+

(New CA salary (as at Jan 1, 2008) - Salary as at Jan 1, 2008) x 4

For example, say you’re a journalist at the start of Grade One, your salary (old CA) would have been RM2,280. You would have got an automatic jump in Feb 2007 which would’ve amounted to RM80. Therefore, your salary would have increased this way:

RM2,280 + RM80 = RM2,360

Under the 2007-2010 CA, your pay would have been adjusted to RM2,705 (RM2620 + RM85).

Therefore, your arrears would be RM2705 - RM2360 = 345 X 13 months

However, you would’ve gotten another jump in Jan 2008. So your pay (old CA) would have increased to RM2,440 (RM2,360 + RM80).

Under the new CA, your pay is now RM2790 (RM2,705 + RM85)

Therefore your arrears for 2008 is RM2790 - RM2440 = 350 x 4 months

The total arrears for salary that you would receive is (345 X 13 months) + (350 x 4)

However, there is an exception. If you are at the bar of your grade, just subtract your pay under the new CA with your pay under the old CA. Then, multiply 17 months.

Today (April 7, 2008) we held our 7th CA meeting with Management. We are happy to say that we’re now at the tail end of the negotiations.

Thank you for your patience and we hope to have the CA signed in the coming weeks ahead.

SS Yoga
(Chairperson)

The Committee would like to thank members who had filled in the CA Survey forms. The data collected has been tabulated and is being used to formulate the new CA proposal which will be delivered to the Management in the near future.

The Committee will keep members informed of all developments relating to the CA.