{
  "id": 13122287,
  "title": "2027 Budget: RM2k minimum wage falls short of workers' needs – MTUC",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/2027-budget-rm2k-minimum-wage-falls-short-of-workers-needs-mtuc",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-09T13:10:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/10/1551929/2027-budget-rm2k-minimum-wage-falls-short-workers-needs-%E2%80%93-mtuc"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has described the RM2,000 minimum wage as insufficient, saying it falls short of the RM3,100 it had sought and the RM3,400 living wage paid to employees of government-linked companies (GLCs) and government-linked investment companies (GLICs).",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}