Weed out exploitation at its roots, urge labour groups

PETALING JAYA: With a proposal being studied to severely penalise companies bringing in foreign workers without providing them jobs, groups have called for a “deep clean and overhaul” of the recruitment processes.

They said with the matter now brought out in the open by Plantation and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani, it is time for all parties to go the extra mile to resolve the labour exploitation issue at its root.North-South Initiative executive director and co-founder Adrian Pereira spoke of “a whole web of individuals”, including civil servants, profiteering from the vulnerability of migrant workers.