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The Labour Department says it will open 30 investigation papers over glove manufacturer Brightway Holdingsâ failure to comply with various housing standards under a newly-enforced law.
The human resources ministry said the decision to open the investigation papers came after raids on two of the companyâs subsidiaries over the past week, with minister M Saravanan describing the squalid conditions for foreign workers as âmodern day slaveryâ.
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Located in Kajang, La Glove (M) Sdn Bhd was raided on Monday, with the Labour Department finding 781 workers living in two blocks of shipping containers stacked three storeys high.
M sia on track to exceed vaccination target and other news you may have missed
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KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.
1. The government revealed that Malaysia has enough Covid-19 vaccine procurement deals in the pipeline to immunise nearly 82.8 percent of its population, above its 70 percent target and below its RM3 billion budget.
2. Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah explained that some countries are able to roll out their Covid-19 immunisation programmes sooner because they had been given a head start by pharmaceutical companies, while Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be among the first to receive it in a bid to reassure the public of its safety.