Lured and hired, then mired in debt


A SPECIAL report in Makkal Osai highlighted how employment agents were making empty promises to foreign workers as a way of luring them to work in the country.

Social worker T. Kamalanathan said many workers, who had used their savings or mortgaged their family property to come to Malaysia, were shocked with the reality of their jobs and work conditions here.

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