Traders Who Hike Prices To Be Exposed
PUTRAJAYA, May 21 (Bernama) -- The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry warned traders against taking advantage of the salary increase for civil servants by hiking prices of their goods, or have their names and locations splashed in the newspapers.
"I will definitely name them," its minister Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal told reporters after a Workers Day gathering for the public sector at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre here today. He said this in response to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who when announcing the salary increase for civil servants in his speech at the gathering, had called on the ministry to step up its monitoring of traders and to educate consumers of their rights.
Shafie said the ministry's enforcement division nationwide had been instructed to step up enforcement since two weeks ago to ensure traders did not increase prices of goods in anticipation of the salary increase for government employees. He said the public should also play their role by informing the ministry's enforcement offices of errant traders. "If consumers use their rights by spending wisely, I believe, we can also educate traders," he added.
Source : The Bernama
"I will definitely name them," its minister Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal told reporters after a Workers Day gathering for the public sector at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre here today. He said this in response to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who when announcing the salary increase for civil servants in his speech at the gathering, had called on the ministry to step up its monitoring of traders and to educate consumers of their rights.
Shafie said the ministry's enforcement division nationwide had been instructed to step up enforcement since two weeks ago to ensure traders did not increase prices of goods in anticipation of the salary increase for government employees. He said the public should also play their role by informing the ministry's enforcement offices of errant traders. "If consumers use their rights by spending wisely, I believe, we can also educate traders," he added.
Source : The Bernama
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