Iconic Mydin grilled for 'hesitation' to honour RM2.5K min wages for grads, undermining workers’ welfare

But the lukewarm reaction by managing director Datuk Wira Ameer Ali Mydin towards Budget 2027’s proposal to fix the minimum wage for graduates at RM2,500 seems to have opened the proverbial floodgate to perhaps a wider issue of working conditions and staff welfare.

For starters, his justification that setting salaries based solely on academic qualifications risks causing problems when new graduates receive salaries equal to or higher than existing employees with experience in certain positions does look sensible.

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