Company employer fails to provide proper accommodation for foreign workers

JASIN: The employer of a furniture factory in Sungai Rambai was found to have committed various offences, in addition to providing 14 poor accommodation units for foreign workers, without any accommodation certificate, in an integrated enforcement operation by the state Labour Department (JTK), here on Tuesday.

State Health, Human Resources and Unity Committee chairman, Ngwe Hee Sem (pic), said that the accommodation of wooden village houses, inhabited by a total of 66 foreign workers (30 Bangladeshi, 26 Nepalese and 10 Myanmar citizens), also failed to meet the requirements of the Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 (Act 446).