PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Employer Federation (MEF) has asked the government to look to local experts and resources to deal with issues of long-ter.
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KUALA LUMPUR (April 7): Twelve plantation groups today voiced their opposition to the government’s decision to order the plantation sector to contribute 1% towards the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) Levy.
In a joint statement today, they stressed the importance of inclusive and effective engagement with the relevant stakeholders of the plantation sector on this matter.
“Such engagements will constructively facilitate towards an open and transparent platform to review the additional levy made under the expansion of the compulsory HRDF Order 2021. In doing so, this will be testimony to the government’s objective to attain win-win propositions in inclusive partnership with the private sectors, towards reviving the Malaysian economy in post-pandemic recovery period,” they said.
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Kelvin Lim began working to raise awareness about human trafficking in 2009. He used music and organised events at schools and universities across Malaysia, sometimes accompanied by his band. Then, one day in 2016, a member of the audience contacted him about a neighbourâs domestic worker she had seen with burns on her neck. Lim, a 50-year-old pastor and events producer, advised the woman to discreetly take a photograph of the womanâs injuries. He then sent it on to Tenaganita, a migrant rights group located in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, and they rescued her.
The incident, like other tip-offs he had received following such events, sparked an idea. Lim teamed up with Tenaganita, which has sheltered and supported migrant workers in Malaysia for three decades, to develop an app the public could use to anonymously report instances of suspected trafficking such as forced domestic work, sexual exploitation or child labour.