Compulsory housing is news to us, say employers

Centralised quarters: There are still questions whether employers from the industrial sectors have to provide employees with housing.

PETALING JAYA: Employers are in the dark about the proposed changes to the Workers’ Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act that will make it mandatory for those in the industrial sectors to provide centralised accommodation for their employees.

Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan said that in a discussion with the government, employers were made to understand that it was something to be done on a voluntary basis.