MTUC slams move to make foreign workers pay for Covid-19 tests
Migrant workers undergoing Covid-19 screening at Chow Kit today. A union today criticised a minister’s suggestion that they pay for such tests. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, May 8, 2020.
THE Malaysian Trades Union Congress today criticised senior minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s proposal that employers deduct the salary of their migrant workers to fund their Covid-19 screenings. “It is both inhumane and inconsiderate. Foreign workers, especially those without permits, are already underpaid and can hardly make ends meet. Ismail’s proposal will inflict a further blow to their livelihood and once again, allow employers to shirk from their responsibility,” said MTUC secretary-general J. Solomon.
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