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?
SUBARNA POUDEL KATHMANDU: Malaysian embassy in Kathmandu has ‘unilaterally’ introduced Biometric Medical Test (Bio-Medical) System in Nepal, which is expected to add financial burden on Nepalis seeking jobs in southeast Asian country. The system, which was introduced yesterday, is expected to raise medical check-up fee for Malaysian job seekers as health centres that conduct check-ups […]
Astro Awani | Updated: January 02, 2014 KUALA LUMPUR: Overall work happiness score of Malaysian employees have dropped from 60.04 per cent in 2012 to 59.05 per cent in 2013. Malaysian employees are most unhappy with advancement and opportunities at work and rated career advancement as the most important aspect of their work, at a […]
Teo Nie Ching 10:55AM Dec 31, 2013 MP SPEAKS Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan revealed in Parliament on Nov 11, 2013 that overseas remittances by foreign workers in Malaysia doubled from RM10 billion in 2009 to almost RM20 billion last year. Our per capita income was US$10,387 or RM33,202 in 2012. If these overseas remittances […]
BY P. ARUNA PETALING JAYA: Mydin Emporium employee P. Pathmashri irons and folds clothes like any other worker at the hypermarket in Klang. The only difference is that the 33-year-old does all this with only two fingers on his right hand and a prosthetic arm. After a motorcycle accident that changed his life three years […]
LABUAN, Dec 29 (Bernama) — The influx of foreign workers has led to the spread of tuberculosis in the country. About 18,000 cases were reported in 2010, rising to 20,000 in 2011 with 1,600 deaths. Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Hilmi Yahaya said foreign workers wishing to work in this country are now required to undergo […]
Sunday Star picked the minds of some students on migrant workers. IT’s not fair to create presumptions that migrant workers cause crimes, bring diseases into the country and cause various social crimes because Malaysians are just as capable of creating those issues. From my experience working in shopping malls, they are just like other human […]
BY HARIATI AZIZAN The Migration Works campaign aims to show young people that we share more with migrant workers than we think. FREELANCE photographer Sam Ruslan never bothered to really look at the foreign faces serving him coffee, until he found himself behind the coffee bar. “Working closely with foreign workers as baristas made me […]
By Boo Su-Lyn KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 — Foreign workers’ overseas remittances totalling almost RM20 billion last year would have increased Malaysia’s per capita income by RM714 to RM33,916 if Malaysians had earned the wages instead, a DAP lawmaker said today. Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching also noted that Bangladesh received remittances of RM3.032 billion […]
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