Envoy: Probe alleged poor working conditions at Tawau factory

Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia Hermono called on the Tawau Labour Department to investigate allegations of bad practices carried out at the plywood factory currently facing unfair dismissal claims by a migrant who was wrongfully whipped in prison two months after his sacking.

Hermono, who goes by a single name, said according to sources in Tawau, Fu Yee Corporation’s poor management of its workers may have led to the company’s employment of undocumented workers, poor workers’ housing, low wages and underpayment of wages.

Meanwhile, the migrant worker, Sabri Umar, who had run the gamut of Malaysia’s criminal proceedings from arrest to acquittal in four months, having also been caned five strokes in that short time, would seek compensation for the injustices he suffered.

His first step, however, was to seek reinstatement through...