Non-essential businesses should not be allowed to operate during MCO
WE, the 29 undersigned groups, organizations and trade unions are appalled that it seems to be no longer an offence for companies/businesses not providing essential services to continue operating during this movement control order to check the spread of Covid-19.
Recently, the government stopped Heineken from operating, even though it could be argued the brewer was an ‘essential service’, but a sincere government interested in the safety of the people ought to not simply exempt companies/businesses for any other reasons save for those listed as providing ‘essential services’.
What is glaringly absent from the new regulations, that is in effect from April 1 until April14, was the absence of the same or similar Section/Regulation 5 in the old Regulations, which means that now it may no longer be an offence for companies/businesses which did not provide ‘essential services’ or ‘have obtained permission of the Director General of Health’ who continued to operate.
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin’s coalition government, known as Perikatan Nasional, that came into power in the beginning of March, not after a general elections, is a loose coalition of political parties and independent MPs, where doubts still linger whether the new PM still enjoys the majority support amongst the MPs.
However, because of the MCO and its restrictions, including the closure of law firms and the diminished operations of the courts at this time, it is very difficult, for workers and/or their trade unions to even mount these appeals and/or challenges in court regarding these exemptions. The right for workers to exercise their legal right to picket is also denied at the moment.
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