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KUALA LUMPUR: Sending unskilled workers to Japan to hone their abilities will only add value to Malaysia, says Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan.
The small number of industrial training institutes and craft training centres that already exist need to be upgraded, and the whole issue of skill-based training of informal workers needs to be re-evaluated.
The Atlantic The Decline of Domestic Help The absence of maids—exploited, largely invisible workers who decades ago made keeping a house in order look much easier—is one of the biggest reasons today’s middle-class families feel stretched for time. Wikimedia Commons For centuries, a woman’s social status was clear-cut: Either she had a maid or she was one. Servants—often live-ins—who did the bulk of the cooking, laundry, and child care were an indispensable part of life for virtually everyone who wasn’t a domestic worker him- or herself. Live-in maids, though, are now an anachron...