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Article

8 Jan 2008

Author:
Anis Ibrahim, New Straits Times [Malaysia]

Airline's crew rules 'embarrassing' [Malaysia]

Malaysia Airlines' work policies for its women flight attendants are "embarrassing", says the MAS Employees Union's executive secretary since 2003, Mustafar Maarof...[A] Universiti Malaysia Terengganu lecturer...said..."At MAS, most female flight attendants retire at 40. Lead cabin crew can work till they are 45. Men retire at 55 no matter what (their) grade...This is highly discriminatory..." The paper said MAS had discriminatory employment policies that were contrary to the Constitution and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which Malaysia ratified in 1995. [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Malaysia Airlines to respond; it did not. Also refers to higher retirement ages at Air India, Garuda Indonesia, Japan Airlines, AirAsia]

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