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Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp Bhd, site of the country’s biggest virus outbreak, said on Wednesday that whistleblowers will no longer face termination after it fired a worker who highlighted overcrowding at its factories.
The world’s biggest maker of medical gloves also said it has established helplines to handle worker complaints.
The Reuters news agency reported last week that 27-year-old Nepali worker Yubaraj Khadka was sacked after raising concerns about the lack of social distancing at the factories.
Khadka took two photos in May of fellow employees crowding into a Top Glove factory, which he shared with a workers’ rights activist.
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Malaysia s Top Glove Says Will No Longer Fire Whistleblowers; Opens Helplines For Workers
The world s largest medical glove maker has established three helplines for aggrieved workers, one internal and two manned by a consultant and an audit firm, Lee told BFM. He did not name the external firms operating the helplines.
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Malaysia s Top Glove Corp Bhd, site of the country s biggest virus outbreak of more than 5,000 cases, said on Wednesday that whistleblowers will no longer face termination and three helplines for worker complaints had been established.
Reuters reported last week that 27-year-old Nepali worker Yubaraj Khadka was fired after raising concerns about the lack of social distancing at the factories.
Malaysia launches new tourism plan after $25 billion loss in 2020
23 Dec 2020 Pedestrians cross a road in a business district of Kuala Lumpur. Reuters Malaysia on Wednesday launched a 10-year plan to restart its battered tourism sector, which is estimated to have lost more than 100 billion ringgit ($24.61 billion) this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Southeast Asian country had initially targeted 30 million tourist arrivals through its ‘Visit Malaysia 2020’ programme, up from 28 million last year.
But the global pandemic has crippled the tourism industry, which in 2019 had contributed 240.2 billion ringgit, or 15.9% of Malaysia’s gross domestic product, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said.
Wednesday, 23 Dec 2020 12:30 PM MYT
General view of Top Glove headquarters in Shah Alam December 10, 2020. Reuters pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp Bhd, site of the country’s biggest virus outbreak of more than 5,000 cases, said today that whistleblowers will no longer face termination and three helplines for worker complaints had been established.
Reuters reported last week that 27-year-old Nepali worker Yubaraj Khadka was fired after raising concerns about the lack of social distancing at the factories.
Khadka took two photos in May of fellow employees crowding into a Top Glove factory, which he shared with a worker rights activist.