Tenaganita claims no laws protect foreign workers in Malaysia


JAKARTA: Tenaganita executive director Irene Fernandez has made a statement criticising the Malaysian government and Malaysian employers in an interview with an Indonesian English daily on the issue of migrant workers in Malaysia.

In the question-and-answer article published Monday by The Jakarta Post, she had, among other things, lamented the absence of laws to protect migrant workers in Malaysia.

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