24 Feb 2021 / 07:20 H. Bernama
MELAKA, Feb 23: A total of 1,161 employers in Melaka hiring foreign workers have not conducted COVID-19 screening on 14,016 of these workers within the period from Feb 1 until yesterday.
Melaka Manpower Department (JTK) director, Rosli Jantan said these employers had been contacted via email but had yet to respond on the screening matter.
“The department had contacted 2,208 employers registered under the Social Security Organisation (Socso) but only 1,047 of them gave feedback and conducted screening for their foreign workers within that period.
“So far, only 27,496 foreign workers have undergone screening and we urge the employers who have not done it for their foreign workers to do so immediately to avoid action against them,“ he told reporters after an integrated operation conducted by the
95 pct of Melaka employers yet to apply for certificate of accommodation 13 Jan 2021 / 18:08 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
MELAKA: About 95% of employers in the state have yet to apply for a certificate of accommodation from the Manpower Department (JTK) to provide housing for their foreign workers.
Melaka JTK director Rosli Jantan said so far only 82 employers had submitted their applications and 11 applications had been approved.
He said this to reporters after conducting an integrated operation with the Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Melaka Historic City Council, and the police at an ice manufacturing factory in Bukit Gedong here today.
On the operation, Rosli said the factory was found to have committed four offences under the Workers’ Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 (Act 446).