Malaysia

15th April 2024: FMT Permits for Malaysian palm oil giant FGV’s foreign workers renewed, only 549 pending levy payment (response by Malaysian immigration department’s DG following foreign workers serious freedom of movement complaints/allegations)

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / April 15, 2024

9th April 2024 - Bangladeshi victims of criminal syndicate trafficking worked for forced labour in Malaysia: ‘Cops after workers, not rogue employers’

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / April 9, 2024

SCMP - As Malaysia’s door closes on low-paid migrant workers, companies scramble for staff (and a systemically corrupt migration management and recruitment policy, devoid of the rule of law and leading to impunity and gross exploitation, is revealed)

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / April 7, 2024

6th April 2024: FGV says only 2,101 foreign workers experienced delays in permit renewal - FGV foreign workers complain they cannot resign or go home, but FGV management blames Malaysian immigration department for delays post COVID-19

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / April 6, 2024

he Star - Freeze on foreign workers hiring quota in Malaysia stays for now, says HR Minister (with estimated 200,000+ surplus foreign workforce victims facing destitution and abuse)

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / March 26, 2024

Half a million vulnerable and irregular foreign workers disappear from Malaysia’s migrant worker regularization programme as deadline looms in one week

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / March 23, 2024

When work in Malaysia is a con - the criminal syndicate trafficking Bangladeshis for forced labour in Malaysia

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / March 14, 2024

13th March 2024: FMT - Bangladeshi migrants file police reports after falling victim to job scam/criminal syndicate trafficking workers from Bangladesh for forced labour in Malaysia

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / March 13, 2024

SCMP - Malaysia to slash migrant workforce amid intolerance, job scam crisis involving Bangladeshi labourers

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / March 12, 2024

The Daily Star - Distressed in Malaysia - Thousands of Bangladeshi migrants jobless, unpaid or underpaid

Leave a Comment / Malaysia / By Andy Hall / March 10, 2024