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?
New Straits Times
30 Dec 2006
KUALA LUMPUR, SAT: THE Employees Provident Fund’s move to restructure the accounts of members to increase their savings on retirement has been well received.
Malaysiakini.com
Dec 28, 06 5:04pm
A day-long fax campaign is being organised by several organisations to object
the 4th round of negotiations of the Malaysia-US Free Trade Agreement talks.
Malaysiakini.com
Dec 26, 06 10:52pm
Former workers of Bukit Rajah estate and Bukit Rajah Oil
Mill estate in Klang, Selangor feel that they’ve been shortchanged by their
one-time employer Prominent Acres Sdn Bhd and the union that was supposed to protect
their interests, the National Union of Plantation Workers (NUPW).
Bernama
December 26, 2006
21:36 PM
PUTRAJAYA, 26 Dis (Bernama) — The Immigration Department is looking
for 12 big firms including those listed on Bursa Malaysia for employing 428 Bangladeshi
workers whose visas have expired.
26 December 2006 – Hearing reports of sexual
and psychological abuse, long work hours and irregular payment of salaries, an
independent United Nations expert has called on Indonesia, which provides many
migrant workers for overseas employers, to ensure that recruitment agencies protect
the human rights of their workers.
New Straits Times
23 Dec 2006
BUKIT MERTAJAM: A poultry farm manager here is upset over the detention of his foreign workers despite possessing valid documents.
Sun2Surf
Ng Kee Seng
Dec 22,
2006
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) says it will
vigorously oppose any move to erode the protection afforded to workers under prevailing
legislations.
Bernama
December 22, 2006 17:01 PM
BATAM, Dec 22 (Bernama) — The Malaysian government has this
week deported some 1,143 Indonesian migrant workers who had problems in the country,
Antara news agency reported Friday quoting a spokesman of the Indonesian consulate
in Johor Baru, Didik Trimardjono.
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