by nsiadmin | Dec 17, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Rights/Protections
The Bar Council has recommended that the government emulate Singapore in labour disputes involving migrant workers, where they may be allowed to switch employers under certain conditions....
by nsiadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Rights/Protections
Several activists have called for the Social Security Organisation (Socso) to provide equal benefits and compensations for both Malaysian employees and migrant workers....
by nsiadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Year 2021, Health/Abuse, Rights/Protections, Trade Unions
There is an urgent need to improve awareness about occupational safety and health among the millions of migrant workers in the country, a unionist said....
by nsiadmin | Sep 17, 2021 | Year 2021, Rights/Protections
Adrian Pereira has been working with migrant communities and fighting for their rights for more than two decades. In 2011, he co-founded the North South Initiative, a CSO to help bridge solidarity and equality gaps between the North and South in terms of human rights...
by nsiadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Health/Abuse, Rights/Protections
Migrant workers amidst the pandemic in the Global South have gone through the same experience as those who are displaced. The health crisis has brought the plight of migrant workers to another level, in what it is considered here as ‘abandonment’....
by nsiadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Government/Policy/Enforcement, Health/Abuse, Rights/Protections, Year 2021
Putrajaya has been urged to demonstrate consistency in its stance on undocumented migrants if it wants to convince them to come forward for free Covid-19...
