Deputy Human Resources Minister Mustapha Sakmud said this following an incident where a woman allegedly died after her husband claimed that he was not granted a seven-day paternity leave to take care of her.
He claimed that he did not get his seven- day paternity leave and that he only managed to stay home with her for two days.Social media users have taken it that the man’s employer had refused to implement the seven-day mandatory paternity leave, practised in Peninsular Malaysia, as being one factor contributing to his wife’s death.
“The state government had agreed to amend an article in the Sabah Labour Ordinance with regards to this matter,” he said, adding that the rights of the workers in Sabah would be defended in accordance with the guidelines set by the International Labour Organisation.He said he found out that the company involved had only given two days of paternity leave to the man while urging him to take annual leave to accompany his wife.
“Unfortunately, he returned home to find his wife dead and their baby crying beside her,” added Mustapha.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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