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?
This was to ease the present high number of foreign workers now stranded in Malaysia without jobs because agents who brought them in could not emplace them, said MTUC Secretary-General G. Rajasekaran.
<p>He told Bernama that since the government changed its policy in 2002, it had
issued 220 permits to agents to recruit foreign workers.</p>
<p>Rajasekaran claimed that these agents had abused the permits by bringing in
more workers than there were jobs available in the country for them.</p>
<p>He said some 3,000 workers from Bangladesh holding legal documents were now
stranded at the KL International Airport in Sepang because the agents could
not find jobs for them. These workers are being housed at the airport’s car
park and guarded by officers and men from the People’s Volunteer Corps (Rela).</p>
<p>Rajasekaran said the Human Resources Ministry should take immediate steps to
overcome the plight of these innocent workers and ensure that such abuses did
not occur in future.</p>
<p>– BERNAMA</p>
<p><i>Source: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=286097</i>
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