Domestic Worker Mou Signing Expected Next Month Minister

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Malaysia is expected to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the recruitment of Indonesian domestic workers next month, said Minister of Human Resources M Saravanan.
He said the date for the signing of the agreement would be decided by the Indonesian government soon.
“Actually, we hoped the MOU will be signed in early February but it had to be postponed because the condition was not suitable.
“As the MOU will be signed in Indonesia, I hope they (Indonesian government) will set the date, hopefully in March,” he said.
He told reporters this after participating in a special integrated enforcement operation under the Labour Laws and the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) in Seremban today.
Two days ago, Saravanan (above) reportedly said the signing of the MOU would benefit both countries especially the domestic workers who need jobs in an economy still facing the Covid crisis as well as Malaysian employers who need their services.
In the meantime, he said he would also go to Cambodia soon to discuss the recruitment of workers including housemaids from there since Malaysia could not depend on one source country only.
“We don’t know yet (on the number of workers to be recruited), as we have just received a directive from the prime minister. He told me to discuss with Cambodia,” he said.
He said there were to date 1,054 Cambodian workers in the country with 1,003 being domestic maids.
He also stressed that there was no discrimination against foreign workers because they also received the same facilities as local workers.
- Bernama

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