Monday, 21 Dec 2020 11:25 PM MYT
BY KEERTAN AYAMANY
Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan inspecting the workers’ living conditions at Laglove’s plant in Kajang, December 21, 2020. Picture from Facebook/Kementerian Sumber Manusia
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 The Health Ministry today ordered glove manufacturer Laglove (M) Sdn Bhd to close its premises in Kajang, Selangor, seemingly due to poor workers’ living conditions that are in violation of Covid-19 safety regulations.
In the notice sighted by
Malay Mail, the company was ordered to close its premises for seven days, starting from December 24.
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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By Reuters Staff
(Updates with company comments)
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A Malaysian glove maker has denied hundreds of its workers are living in metal shipping containers in squalid conditions that the country’s human resources minister described as modern slavery.
Ministry officials on Monday conducted a raid on a glove-making factory in Kajang district, just outside Kuala Lumpur, where they found workers living in cramped, dirty shipping containers stacked behind the premises, reports by broadcaster Astro Awani and news portal Free Malaysia Today said.
A ministry spokeswoman confirmed the reports to Reuters, adding that 781 workers were employed at the factory, most of whom were migrants.