Malaysia is one of Asia's biggest employers of foreign labour. But recently, cases of deaths, abuse and forced labour have come to light. What is going on? Who is protecting these migrant workers?
The Star
Friday July 14, 2006
PUTRAJAYA: Two hypermarkets in the Klang Valley were recently caught hiring
illegal foreign workers who used fake workers’ identity cards.
The Star
Wednesday June 28, 2006
KUALA LUMPUR: Three factory workers who started a union at their workplace
were rightly sacked for distributing pamphlets containing lies about their employer,
the Industrial Court ruled.
The Star
Monday June 26, 2006
KUALA LUMPUR: The plight of plantation workers and retrenched or displaced
workers took centre stage at the MIC annual general assembly.
News Straits Times
26 Jul 2006
Phuah Ken Lin
GEORGE TOWN: It has been an agonising three-year wait for a group of 48 Indian
workers who sued their employer for underpaying them.
Malaysiakini.com
Wong Yeen Fern
Jun 24, 06 12:43pm
The Human Resource Ministry has spent a whopping RM82 million on a graduate
retraining programme to sharpen the skills of unemployed graduates.
The Star
Thursday June 22, 2006
PUTRAJAYA: A proposal to raise the ceiling salary of workers from RM1,500 to
RM2,000 under the Employment Act 1995 will be tabled during the next Parliament
meeting.
The Star
By TAN SIN CHOW
Tuesday June 20, 2006
PENANG: Some 225,000 of the 4.5 million workers in the country are not registered
with the Social Security Organisation (Socso).
The Star
Sunday June 18, 2006
PENANG: The pool of 130,000 disabled persons registered with the Welfare Department
can be tapped into to fill up vacancies in various sectors.
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