Ex Embassy Staff Claims Wrongful Dismissal Demands Compensation

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Sudanese woman Maye Mahgoub Moustafa Ahmed claims she has not got any response from Wisma Putra about her compensation claim.PETALING JAYA: A former employee attached to the Malaysian embassy in Sudan is alleging that the government has failed to compensate her after terminating her employment almost a year ago.
Maye Mahgoub Moustafa Ahmed said she was wrongfully sacked in October last year and is entitled to compensation of US$1,600.
However, she said her pleas for payment have fallen on deaf ears as Wisma Putra has not responded.
Ads by KioskedWhen contacted, a Wisma Putra officer said they would look into Maye’s claim.
Maye, who said she was a marketing officer at the embassy, claimed she had on numerous occasions since May asked the locally recruited staff office in Wisma Putra for an update without success.
Her last email to the foreign ministry was sent on July 5.
“They initially told me they are waiting for approval, and then stopped answering my subsequent calls. Why does an approval need nearly a year? This is illogical and unacceptable,” she told FMT.
Maye said she was hired as a marketing officer in May 2022 following an interview conducted by the first and third secretaries of the embassy. The 43-year-old claimed she had informed her interviewers that she had worked at the Brazilian embassy in Sudan but had not been asked why she left.
She said she was sacked by the Malaysian embassy in October – two months after completing her probation – for allegedly failing to declare that she had previously been fired by the Brazilian embassy.
Ads by KioskedTo compound matters, Maye said, she did not have any legal avenue to take action against the embassy as her country is currently in a state of war.
“I am asking for my rights and neither the Malaysian embassy nor Wisma Putra is replying, even after I mentioned that due to the circumstances of war in Sudan, I cannot wait any longer.
“I need my money as I had to leave my country,” she said, adding that she was now a refugee in Egypt. - FMT

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