Human Resources Minister M Saravanan and senior minister Fadillah Yusof inspecting workers’ sleeping and bathing quarters during a visit in July to a workers’ hostel in Bangsar South.
Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan told FMT that enforced compliance with the amended Workers’ Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 may leave bosses with little choice but to resort to cost-cutting measures, including retrenching workers. Shamsuddin also said the regulations for the law, which provided specific requirements for employers to comply with, were only published on Aug 28, less than a week before the amended law came into force.“The law was passed last year but the details were not available earlier. This includes specifics like the thickness of an employee’s mattress needs to be four inches.
“There are a lot of ‘unfriendly’ details, like charging employers processing fees. What is the point of having an administrator who charges fees for processing applications from employers? The government shouldn’t be charging to process applications from employers.”
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