too many public holidays

what do you think? do you agree that we have too many public holidays?

according to a NST report, the government is going to study the excessiveness of public holidays in malaysia.

as the five-days week will be implemented soon come 1st july, DPM najib fear that with public holidays thrown into the 5-days week, will make workers less competitive.

presently we have 14 gazetted public holidays. however, according to malaysian trade union congress president, syed shahir, out of these 14, 11 were religious/cultural based thus it is not wise to reduce the holidays.

i suppose the 3 holidays that are not religious/cultural based are merdeka day (independance), agong’s birthday and new year (1st jan)? but merdeka and agong’s birthday are big major event!! cannot cut them off! so what does that leave us? cut off 1st jan? hmm… if PAS is the ruling govt. then i’m very sure 1st jan will go since they consider 1st jan as the ‘western new year,’ nothing to do with us.

why don’t the govt. think of the private sector too? many private sector do work on a saturday – all saturdays of the week. so if they reduce the public holidays more for their staff who are going on a 5-days week, it will not be fair to the private sector workers.

i hope the govt. will not do anything stupid to reduce the holidays. just keep them as they are. if they do, then i suppose lone‘s naming bolehland as gostanland fit them even more!