Vietnam suspends operations of firms sending workers to Msia
HANOI - Vietnam has suspended the operations of three firms exporting labour to Malaysia after several scandals relating to Vietnamese workers broke there, officials said today.
The three companies will stop sending workers to Malaysia from April 1 for failing to abide by labour export regulations, an official from the government department administering the foreign-employed labour force told AFP .
Among the three is Suleco, whose 68 workers were expelled from Malaysia in February after a mass brawl between Vietnamese and Bangladeshi employees at a garment factory.
HANOI - Vietnam has suspended the operations of three firms exporting labour to Malaysia after several scandals relating to Vietnamese workers broke there, officials said today.
The three companies will stop sending workers to Malaysia from April 1 for failing to abide by labour export regulations, an official from the government department administering the foreign-employed labour force told AFP .
Among the three is Suleco, whose 68 workers were expelled from Malaysia in February after a mass brawl between Vietnamese and Bangladeshi employees at a garment factory.
The incident left a dozen people injured on both sides.
Raising alarms
Outbreaks of violence and sudden deaths have raised alarm about the moral and professional standards of the Vietnamese employees in its neighbouring Southeast Asian country.
More than 32,000 Vietnamese are currently working in Malaysia after the Malaysian government granted official permission to 46 Vietnamese labour-export companies to send workers to the country in February 2002.
Early in March, Vietnam decided to tighten labour exports to Malaysia.
Inspection teams are to be formed to check the selection and training methods used by the 46 companies. AFP
