Johor Factory Fills Dormitory Room Meant For 6 With 65 Migrant Workers
A factory employing the workers crammed 65 of them into a single dormitory room originally meant for six occupants. The five-room dormitory, with 325 people living there, possessed no lockers and one room even lacked bathroom walls.
The Department of Labour Peninsular Malaysia (JTKSM) could levy fines as high as S$14,573 per dorm room to the factory. Only a fine? This shameful act borders on criminality and at the very least, the owners deserve to be jailed, named and shamed!
It is only the tip of the iceberg. Employer aside, what has our labour enforcement been doing? Gaji butah! Rusah! This reflects badly on the authorities who are responsible for preventing such abuses. Are these migrant workers not human? If the authorities have been doing their jobs then the employers will respect their authorities. But, it all comes down to you scratching my back and I scratching yours between the employers and the authorities. Our country's systems are broken down.