PETALING JAYA: Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan has dismissed a glove-manufacturing company s denial that hundreds of its workers are living in metal shipping containers in squalid conditions, which he had labelled as modern slavery . Let them say what they want to say. We have enough evidence to enforce the rule of law. It is common for any employer to deny it, that will (only) force us to publish more pictures of the condition. Anyway, we had enough media during the visit, said Saravanan when contacted, who took part in a multi-agency raid at a Brightway Holding s subsidiary in Kajang.
Ministry officials on Monday (Dec 21) conducted the raid on a glove-making factory in Kajang, just outside Kuala Lumpur, where they found workers living in cramped, dirty shipping containers stacked behind the premises, according to earlier media reports.
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Friday, 18 Dec 2020 05:41 PM MYT
BY ASHMAN ADAM
Salim urged the government to ensure full respect for the human rights and humane treatment of migrants. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 The Malaysian Bar is calling for the government to uphold the rights of migrant workers in Malaysia, whether they’re documented or not, in accordance with International Migrants Day which is observed on December 18 annually.
Its president Salim Bashir commended Putrajaya’s move to enforce amendments to the Workers’ Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 to ensure that migrant workers have a safer standard of living and hopes that migrant workers continue to receive free Covid-19 testing.