Malacca egg factory under probe over inhumane workers’ housing


Malacca Unity, Information, Manpower and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman Ngwe Hee Sem (centre) says the owner of a chicken egg production factory in Alor Gajah has committed multiple offences under the Employees’ Minimum Standards of Housing, Accommodations and Amenities Act 1990. – Facebook pic, May 26, 2022.

DIRTY and inhumane – that is the pathetic picture of workers’ housing for 27 employees of a chicken egg production factory in Alor Gajah, Malacca.

Without basic amenities such as mattresses and electricity and water supply as well as with a dirty kitchen, the workers from Myanmar are forced to live in poor conditions because the employer has failed to comply with the employees’ minimum standard of housing law.


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  • Unless sufficient publicity is given most of these government staff are quietly well taken care by the towkays. If not how can they so blatantly abuse the workers for so long.

    Posted 1 year ago by Simple Sulaiman