Delay on maid deal: ministry

25 August 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Government / Informal migration for labor / International relations / Labor / Local workers abroad / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development
CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / Datuk Raja Zulkepley Dahalan / Glorene Das / Heng Sour / Malaysian aid / Malaysian Association of Employment Agencies / Ministry of Labour / PIKAP / Tenaganita

The Ministry of Labour plans to delay signing off on a controversial agreement to reopen a pipeline of Cambodian maids to Malaysia until a deal is reached on a second agreement regarding other migrant workers, a ministry official said yesterday.

Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour told the Post that no date has been set for the final discussions over the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding domestic workers, but Cambodia is “proposing [that the] Malaysian side … also draft [a second] MoU” concerning workers including those in manufacture and agriculture industries. …

 Alice Cuddy
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