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“We have requested to the employer company to provide us the details of the Nepali workers, but have not received any response yet. So we are still unaware of their exact status; particularly how many of them returned to works or how many of them chose to return home,” Amal Kiran Dhakal, labor attaché to Malaysia told Republica over phone on Thursday.[break]
The employer firm --Maxter Glove Manufacturing Company based in Perak of Kelang Neru near Kuala Lumpur -- had hinted of deporting the workers, who were adamant on returning home.
About 600 Nepali workers had staged protest against the employer firm demanding quality food and better accommodation. That had brought all operations of the company to a standstill for three days last month.
The disenchanted Nepali workers had reached Malaysia through a Nepali manpower agency named Lucky Human Resource Solution.
The embassy had mediated the talks between striking workers and employer firm in a bid to resolve the problem. After the tripartite negotiation, the company had resumed the operation, but not all striking workers had returned to works as most of them preferred to return home rather than continue their jobs.
The company too had hinted it would arrange deportation of those who do not want to return to work.
Embassy officials had urged the workers not to be aggressive and keep in mind the laws of Malaysia that restrict labor protest without prior information to the employers.
Protests of Nepali workers in Malaysia, the most popular destination among Nepali jobseekers, have been reported frequently, and agitations in most of the cases were related with issues like accomodation, working conditions and wages.
Two years ago, Nepali workers had protested against JCY SDB BHD - a multinational company -- blaming it of negligence in providing timely treatment to a worker, who later died in a local hospital. The three day long protest had led to a crackdown on the agitating workers by the Malaysian security personnel.
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