Wednesday, 27 May 2020 04:13 PM MYTHuman Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan expressed support for improving lodging amenities for foreign workers. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
“The government will allow the delay for three months until August 31, 2020 to give space to employers to make the necessary preparations,” Saravanan said in a statement.Act 446 would have also covered improved guidelines for foreign worker housing, now seen as the possible source for several clusters of Covid-19 infections among migrant labourers.
Malaysia is seeing a surge in fresh daily Covid-19 cases in the last few days, the highest being 187 yesterday. Out of the total cases, 173 were migrant workers both documented and the undocumented. The Ministry of Human Resources, now under a minister from the Perikatan Nasional coalition, said today it acknowledged that migrant workers have been living in deplorable conditions, often cramped in small and dirty spaces. “This is because so many of them live in very small spaces or cramped conditions in a residential unit that is also very dirty.”
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