Detention of workers upsets farm manager
New Straits Times
23 Dec 2006
BUKIT MERTAJAM: A poultry farm manager here is upset over the detention of his foreign workers despite possessing valid documents.
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
23 Dec 2006
BUKIT MERTAJAM: A poultry farm manager here is upset over the detention of his foreign workers despite possessing valid documents.
Sun2Surf
Ng Kee Seng
Dec 22,
2006
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) says it will
vigorously oppose any move to erode the protection afforded to workers under prevailing
legislations.
Bernama
December 22, 2006 17:01 PM
BATAM, Dec 22 (Bernama) — The Malaysian government has this
week deported some 1,143 Indonesian migrant workers who had problems in the country,
Antara news agency reported Friday quoting a spokesman of the Indonesian consulate
in Johor Baru, Didik Trimardjono.
New Straits Times
21 Dec 2006
PUTRAJAYA: A proposal to make it easier for employers to cut their
workforce is being studied by the Human Resources Ministry in response to complaints that current labour laws were not flexible enough for global competitiveness.
New Straits Times
21 Dec 2006
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has rubbished claims by a top United Nations official that more than a million Indonesian migrants in Malaysia were being tortured.
Bernama
December 21, 2006 11:28 AM
JAKARTA, Dec 21 (Bernama)
— The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indonesia and Malaysia, which
allows employers to withhold the passports of migrant workers, could be classified
as a violation of human rights, a foreign observer said.
The Associated Press
December 20, 2006
JAKARTA, Indonesia: More than a million
Indonesian migrant workers in neighboring Malaysia face serious abuses from beatings and rape to forced labor — the bulk of them women and children, the top U.N. official on migrant rights said Wednesday.
The Associated Press
Dec. 20, 2006, 11:48AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia — More than a million Indonesian migrant
workers in neighboring Malaysia face serious abuses from beatings and rape to
forced labor _ the bulk of them women and children, the top U.N. official on migrant
rights said Wednesday.
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