Plantation industries minister: Govt committed to solving issue of forced labour
Thursday, 22 Oct 2020 01:24 PM MYT
Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali said the MSPO, among others, required all industry players to comply with the condition of not using forced labour to obtain the certification. “Hence, with the policies implemented by the government, we can automatically address the issue of manual labour as there are no new foreign workers and there will be no issue of reimbursement of the cost of hiring foreign workers,” he said in an interview on TVAlHijrah’s Mohd Khairuddin was commenting on a report listing Malaysia in the 2020 List of Goods Produced by Child Labour by the United States Department of Labor in September 2020.
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