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PUTRAJAYA, Aug 7 (Bernama) — Fifty-six employers were found by the Peninsular Malaysia Manpower Department to have failed to comply with the Minimum Wage Order 2012.
The department’s director general Mohd Jeffrey Joakim said the 56 were among 89 employers queried by a special enforcement team in an operation, ‘Ops Gaji’, between January and June this year.
He said 1,000 workers were affected by the indifferent attitude of the employers.
“The department will not compromise on this issue and followup action such as prosecution against the errant employers will be taken,” he said in a statement here Thursday.
He said a transportation and services company in Puchong, Selangor had been charged with failing to comply with the RM900 monthly salary for three of its local workers.
Meanwhile, the department’s special enforcement team also conducted inspections under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act (ATIPSOM) 2007, during the operation.
A gold-related manufacturing and production company in Batu Pahat Johor was charged in court under the Act, for trafficking in 10 Cambodian women, added Mohd Jeffrey. — BERNAMA
Source: Bernama
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