Members of the Malacca branch of the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) today lodged a police report on the dismissal of the union’s vice-president Abdul Jamil Jalaludeen and treasurer-general Chen Ka Fatt as Maybank employees on Jan 31.

The report was lodged by the NUBE southern branch treasurer, Kamarudin Bujang together with four other members of the union at the Banda Hilir District Police Station in Malacca.

They asked the authorities to investigate the Maybank senior official who was alleged to have sacked the two individuals and made threats to other Maybank staff members not to picket against the bank.

Kamarudin, who represents 1,000 members of the union in Malacca, claimed that Abdul Jamil, who worked at the Penang Maybank branch, and Chen, from the Ipoh branch, were sacked on grounds that they had held a banner outside the United Nations (UN) building and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva last year and which was carried by the union’s website.

“The grounds for the dismissal are irrelevant... the incident occurred a long time ago. They were sacked merely because of their picture that was taken while picketing to demand 80 months’ bonus for Maybank staff for the past 10 years.

“So, we as members of the NUBE hope that the sacking could be revoked and negotiations could be held immediately to resolve the existing problem,” he told Bernama in Malacca.

- Bernama