Thursday, 15 Oct 2020 06:11 PM MYTKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 ― Rubber gloves manufactured in Malaysia are among six items the US Department of Labour has added to a list of goods produced by forced labour this year, the department said in a report.
The DOL said reports showed an estimated 42,500 migrant workers were employed in the rubber glove industry, and were frequently subjected to high recruitment fees to secure employment that often kept them in debt bondage. He said several major glove manufacturers had since June announced commitments of more than RM250 million to remediate recruitment fees foreign workers paid to agents in their home countries that their Malaysian employers were unaware of.
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