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?
MALAYSIA, AUG 28 – The migrant Nepali workers , who were protesting against the JCY International company based in southern industrial hub of Johor state in Malaysia, have agreed to return to work from Friday. According to councilor at Kula Lumpur based Nepali Embassy Hemlal Bhattarai, the agitating workers, in a meeting held on Wednesday, […]
A public-listed company that had its factory torched by disgruntled workers in Kulai last night said today the damages are “minimal” and will not affect its business. “JCY International Berhad is of the view that the damages to the factory and properties of the company and its subsidiaries do not pose any material impact on […]
Violence at a Kulai factory escalated last night with a portion of the factory was torched, after discussions between worker and factory management fell through. According to police, 44 workers, mostly of Nepalese origin were detained following two incidents of rioting, the first of which occurred at 10am resulting in a torched car. Workers allegedly […]
Selena Tay Is it hard to understand why our government keeps bringing in foreign workers while Malaysians continue to live in poverty. COMMENT As our nation nears the realisation of Vision 2020, the income gap between the general worker and those at executive level is getting wider by the day, so much so it’s more […]
BY SHAFINA SUKIMAN KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 — The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) agrees with the proposal by the Anti-Corruption Advisory Board (ACAB) to draft legislature to govern misconduct by civil servants. Its president, Azih Muda, said the proposal would be practical if the civil servants were […]
KULAIJAYA, Aug 26 (Bernama) — A factory manager’s car was turned-turtle and set ablaze in a strike by about 800 foreign workers outside a hard disk-manufacturing factory in the Taman Perindustrian Sawit Baru here today. At the height of the incident about 9am, the workers hurled an assortment of missiles in the direction of the […]
A factory manager allegedly forced a group of foreign workers to play “volleyball with stones” and those who refused were beaten with a stick. The incident is said to have sparked a riot outside the factory in Kulai, Johor, this morning, which witnessed hundreds of enraged workers throwing stones and torching a car belonging to […]
BY YEE XIANG YUN JOHOR BARU: Some 1,500 Nepalese have refused to go to work for more than 36 hours at a mechanical component manufacturing plant and even flung things out of their living quarters in protest following the death of a colleague. They threw out pieces of metal and glass, electronic products, chairs and […]
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