Bosses still exploiting workers in Sabah
New Straits Times
Jaswinder Kaur
22 Sep 2006
KOTA KINABALU: Nearly a year after changes were made to the labour laws here,
many employers are still exploiting their workers.
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
Jaswinder Kaur
22 Sep 2006
KOTA KINABALU: Nearly a year after changes were made to the labour laws here,
many employers are still exploiting their workers.
Jakarta Post
Thursday, September 21, 2006
JAKARTA: The government admitted Wednesday
that hundreds of thousands of Indonesians still work illegally in the more affluent
neighboring country of Malaysia, despite campaigns to stop illicit labor exports.
Bernama
September 20, 2006 18:20 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (Bernama) — All awards handed down by the Industrial
Court, including by then chairmen N. Rajasegaran and P. Hariraman could not
be challenged even though they had been dropped from the post, Human Resources
Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn said.
Malaysiakini.com
Alvin Yap
Sep 20, 06 4:53pm
Lab assistants are leaving the government service and seeking greener pastures
in private universities and colleges. The reason is simple: double the pay.
The Star
Wednesday September 20, 2006
JOHOR BARU: A group of Indian nationals working in a popular Indian restaurant
in the city is in a dilemma over abuses that include unpaid wages.
Malaysiakini.com
Alvin Yap
Sep 19, 06 5:27pm
The third round of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with the United States
has been postponed until at least end of October, said the Ministry of International
Trade and Industry (Miti).
Malaysiakini.com
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz
Sep 19, 06 11:25am
Heads of states at the recently-concluded Sixth Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem6)
in Helsinki promised that the grouping would act as “a multi-dimensional
dialogue” for “co-operation on political, economic, social, cultural
and educational issues.”
New Straits Times
Mimi Syed Yusof
19 Sep 2006
BEHRANG: The sound of exploding firecrackers shattered the early morning peace
at a rubber estate here, startling a group of slumbering foreign workers and
their families into frenzied action.
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