Medic wants 'wage theft' at university hospitals to stop

A medical officer is urging for action against what they say is “wage theft” at university hospitals, where officers are not compensated for weekend on-call work.

This comes after Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) confirmed with health news website CodeBlue that doctors doing “weekend rounds” there are not compensated unless they are on the official on-call schedule.

Dr Timothy Cheng said this goes against...