KUALA LUMPUR: The Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) has today announced four new directors in efforts to put right wrongdoings committed by some members of the previous board.
In a statement, it said the four are Petronas senior vice-president of group human resource Datuk Raiha Azni Abd Rahman, who is also a member of the Malaysian Employers Federation, retailer Sia Tze Yong who is the executive director of Everise Departmental Store Sdn Bhd, non-profit organisation Educational Welfare and Research Foundation deputy president Govindasamy Annamalai and BTC Group chief executive officer Datuk Abdul Kadir ME Sikkandar.
HRDF, formed in 1993 as the Human Resources Development Council, is an agency under the purview of the Ministry of Human Resources.
HRDF is tasked to catalyse the development of competent local workforce that will contribute to the country’s vision of becoming a high-income economy.
Separately, in Parliament today, Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran announced the HRDF will train about 1.2 million Malaysian workers in 2019 using the RM900 HRDF levy that is collected from registered employers.
Kulasegaran said the Human Resources Ministry and HRDF were looking to forge partnerships with public universities and colleges to train graduates who are job-ready.
On top of that, the HRDF is also developing a skills’ matrix in line with industry requirements, which would essentially contribute to the fund’s mandate in upskilling the employees of its registered employers.
For these aims to be effectively achieved, HRDF said it was stepping up on its efforts to ensure that all liable employers under the PSMB Act 2001 are registered with the fund.
“I urge all HRDF-registered employers, individually and through their respective employer associations, to effectively and efficiently utilise your respective levy contribution to HRDF, to accelerate human capital growth in Malaysia,” said Kulasegaran.