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?
BY LOOI SUE-CHERN A foreign worker from Nepal has become the first woman in Malaysia to be imprisoned for undergoing an abortion. The Bukit Mertajam sessions court last month found Nirmala Thapa guilty of terminating her pregnancy and sentenced her to a year’s jail. Nirmala, 24, was six weeks pregnant when she went to a […]
BY EILEEN NG The oil palm industry is a major component of the agriculture sector and a major export revenue earner. The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry today denies an American report claiming that the sector employed children. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 3, 2014.There is no child or forced labour in Malaysia’s […]
BY EILEEN NG Claims of child labour in the local palm oil sector must be backed by more evidence, said the National Union of Plantation Workers (NUPW), referring to a list of goods produced by child and forced labour issued by the US Department of Labour which cited Malaysia. NUPW executive secretary A. Navamukundan said […]
Malaysia’s palm oil industry has been cited by the United States Department of Labour for using child labour and for forced labour in the country’s electronics and garment sectors. Malaysia appears in the latest list of goods produced by child labour or forced labour released by its Bureau of International Labour Affairs (ILAB), which was […]
KUCHING: Malaysian Trade Unions Congress (MTUC) has renewed its call on the government to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on foreign workers after Human Resources Minister revealed that there are almost six million foreign workers in the country. “More than half of them are illegals. It is shocking that half of our […]
Economic growth is good. However, like anything good, overindulgence and foolishness can land us in trouble. High income nation with high inequality is a silent and unseen troublemaker like high cholesterol and high blood pressure. We must not ignore the adverse effects of high inequality in our eager pursuit of high income nation. The World […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) — It is appropriate for the government to consider raising the rate of contribution to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) for the workers, said the president of the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) Datuk Azih Muda. He said this was to ensure that […]
Press Statement Malaysian Trades Union Congress is alarmed at the manner in which the issue of JCY HDD Technology Sdn Bhd (JCY) foreign worker’s industrial action is swept under the carpets by the Police. MTUC is disappointed with Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaide Wan Jaafer statement in the Dewan Rakyat that Industrial Action taken by […]
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