News
27 September 2007
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27 (IPS) – As thousands of migrant workers from Bangladesh stranded at the international airport here await deportation questions are being asked about Malaysias migrant worker policies and the dubious role of employment agencies.
25 September 2007
Malaysiakini
Sep 25, 07 1:44pm
Rights group Tenaganita said the authorities have no one but themselves to blame for the presence of thousands of migrant workers, currently stranded at the KL International Airport car park.
24 September 2007
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theSun Says
01:55PM Mon, 24 Sep 2007
The promise of a better life in a foreign land is a powerful pull factor that gives people hope of escape from poverty, disadvantage, persecution, disasters, strife or the like. It is a reflection of the times that today, a record number over 190 million people worldwide, according to the United Nations are working and living abroad. Malaysia plays host to some 2.5 million of them, by official count. Of these, an estimated 700,000 are undocumented, although organisations working on migrant issues say that this is a conservative count.
21 September 2007
Bernama
September 21, 2007 22:23 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 (Bernama) — Clinic assistants, security guards and casual farm workers can look forward to a minimum wage and better perks if recommendations for higher remuneration are accepted by stakeholders.
Bernama
September 21, 2007 20:36 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 (Bernama) — Cuepacs today urged consumers to boycott goods whose prices have been indiscriminately raised by traders.
20 September 2007
Bernama
September 20, 2007 19:02 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (Bernama) — The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC)
today called on the government to revert to its old policy of allowing employers
to recruit foreign workers directly on their own in accordance with their needs.
Malaysiakini
Syed Jaymal Zahiid
Sep 20, 07 6:36pm
The move to form an Islamic-based labour organisation has been viewed as divisive
and counter-productive to the workers struggle by Malaysian Trade Union
Congress (MTUC) president Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud.
19 September 2007
The Star
By ELIZABETH LOOI
Wednesday September 19, 2007 MYT 6:05:33 PM
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) wants the Human Resources Ministry to solve the problem of Bangladeshis stranded at the KL International Airport.