PETALING JAYA: While complaints of the abuse of migrant workers in the plantation and electronic industries have dropped in the past two years, reports of forced labour remain high for those in the domestic sector, says Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia Hermono.
He attributed the general improvement on the treatment of migrant workers in plantation companies and electronic industries to these two sectors having adopted ethical and fair recruitment practices.
“What surprised me is that those who abuse the workers are people with important social and economic status,” he told The Star. These are among the 11 indicators of forced labour as published in the Guidelines to Prevent and Combat Forced Labour Practices at the Workplace launched by Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar on Sept 14.“Those who don’t have access to communication and are facing restriction of movement cannot report and seek refuge in the embassy.
Moreover, there were instances when the Labour Department declined to settle cases involving undocumented workers, he claimed. He said this is due to a lack of awareness on what constitutes forced labour along with relevant laws and regulations. “As an example, in the event a foreign worker voluntarily requests the employer to keep his or her passport for safekeeping and the foreign worker has access to the passport on a 24/7, 365-day basis, should the employer be faulted for trying to honestly keep the passport for safety reasons?
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