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PETALING JAYA: Laws allowing 104 hours of overtime per month must be amended as this is making Malaysia party to propagating forced labour, say rights groups.
PETALING JAYA: The government is working with various stakeholders to achieve zero forced labour or anything which involves human rights violations by the year 2030, says the Human Resources Ministry.
/PRNewswire/ -- As part of an ongoing effort to fight illicit finance in Japan, ACAMS and Finance Against Slavery & Trafficking (FAST) at the United Nations...
PETALING JAYA: While complaints of the abuse of migrant workers in the plantation and electronic industries have dropped in the past two years, reports of forced labour remain high for those in the domestic sector, says Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia Hermono.
Malaysia has taken action against 400 companies so far this year for violating labour laws, state news agency Bernama reported, citing Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar. The ministry's labour department issued fines totalling 2.17 million ringgit ($463,000) against 272 employers, while the courts fined 128 employers a combined 242,000 ringgit, Bernama cited Sivakumar as saying on Thursday. The labour violations included illegal wage deductions, Sivakumar said.