The National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) has urged the Ministry of Human Resources (MOHR) to speed up its handling of the thousands retrenched by Malaysia Airlines System’s (MAS) in 2015.

Nufam president Ismail Nasaruddin claimed that the ministry had yet to commence proceedings for those affected.

“In 2015, MAS retrenched 6,000 workers, of which 3,600 took their cases up to the MOHR. Some of them were cabin crew.

“It has been more than two years but the process has not even started yet. No referrals have been made by the ministry to the Industrial Court, we are still waiting...