Recognised refugee will get the iD card , can stay temporary and work

Recognised refugee will get the iD card , can stay temporary and work ( Home ministry said can do odd job ! very odd comment.)

It is time for us to call for register all migrants especially from Burma .. allow to stay, work, access to health care and ect .

Malaysia plans IDs for refugees to prevent arrest

Published: January 31, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia plans to issue identification cards to refugees who are recognized by the United Nations, allowing them to stay in the country temporarily and avoid arrest as illegal immigrants.

Malaysia, which has declined to join the U.N. convention on refugees for fear of attracting a flood of migrants, previously has arrested refugees frequently as illegal aliens. Mostly from Myanmar, the refugees often have spent months in overcrowded detention center and faced caning and deportation.

The plans announced Monday reflect a softening of Malaysia's position toward the refugees, although it continues to refuse them official recognition.

Home Ministry Secretary General Mahmood Adam said the government would work with the U.N. refugee agency to issue the cards so immigration enforcement personnel would recognize and spare U.N.-designated refugees.

"As long as they are recognized as refugees by the U.N., they can stay here temporarily," he told The Associated Press. "They cannot work here, but they can do odd jobs."

He could not give an exact timeline but said the initiative was in the "final stage."

According to the U.N. agency, about 75,600 refugees and asylum-seekers were in Malaysia as of November. Most fled persecution in Myanmar.

Yante Ismail, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, welcomed the development and further discussions to form a documentation system.

"Proper documentation for refugees is essential to their protection," she said.

All of the refugees in Malaysia are waiting to be resettled to a third country that officially accepts refugees, which grants them legal status and the right to work.

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ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာလုပ္သားမ်ား အခြင့္အေရးနစ္နာမႈႀကဳံပါက အလုပ္အကုိင္ရႇာေဖြေရး ေအဂ်င္စီမ်ားက ျပည္ပလုပ္ငန္းရႇင္မ်ားႏႇင့္ ဆက္သြယ္၍ တာ၀န္ယူေျဖရႇင္းေပးရမည္

ျပည္ပတြင္ ေရာက္ရႇိေနေသာ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား အခြင့္အေရးနစ္နာမႈၾကံဳေတြ႕ပါက အလုပ္အကုိင္ရႇာေဖြေရး ေအဂ်င္စီမ်ား က ျပည္ပလုပ္ငန္းရႇင္မ်ားႏႇင့္ ဆက္သြယ္၍ ရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားအတြက္ တာ၀န္ယူေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။

ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား တြင္ ေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္သည့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား တရား၀င္ သတ္မႇတ္ေပးထားေသာ္လည္း သိရႇိသူနည္းပါးေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ရသင့္သည့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ဆုံး႐ႈံးေနရေၾကာင္း ျပည္ပတြင္ သြားေရာက္လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့သူမ်ားထံမႇ သိရသည္။

ထုိ႔ျပင္ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုိင္စင္ရရႇိသူ၏ တာ၀န္ ႏႇင့္အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ေအာက္တြင္ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုိင္စင္ရရႇိသူသည္ အလုပ္သမား၏ ရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား နစ္နာဆုံး႐ႈံးမႈျဖစ္ေပၚလာပါက သက္ဆုိင္ရာျပည္ပလုပ္ငန္းရႇင္ႏႇင့္ ဆက္ သြယ္၍ ယင္းရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား အျပည့္အ၀ရရႇိခံစားႏုိင္ေရး အတြက္ တာ၀န္ယူေဆာင္ရြက္ရမည္။ စာခ်ဳပ္ရႇိပါက ယင္းစာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သေဘာတူထားသည့္ တာ၀န္မ်ားကုိ အလုပ္သမားအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမည္ ဟူသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ကုိ သိရသည္။

ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုိင္စင္ရႇိသူ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ႏႇင့္ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားၾကား စာခ်ဳပ္ရႇိပါက ယင္းစာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သေဘာတူထားသည့္ တာ၀န္မ်ားကုိ အလုပ္သမားအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမည္ဟူသည့္ အခ်က္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ျဖစ္ရာ ျပည္ပသုိ႔ သြားေရာက္လုိေသာ အလုပ္သမား မ်ားအေနျဖင့္အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ႏႇင့္ေဆာင္ ရြက္ရာတြင္ တရား၀င္စာခ်ဳပ္စာတမ္း မ်ားခ်ဳပ္ဆုိျခင္း၊ စာခ်ဳပ္ထဲတြင္ မိမိ လုိခ်င္သည့္ အေၾကာင္းအရာအခ်က္ အလက္မ်ား ျပည့္ျပည့္စုံစုံထည့္သြင္း ခ်ဳပ္ဆုိျခင္းတုိ႔ေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္ေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိသုိ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဆုိမႇသာ နစ္နာမႈ တစ္စုံ တစ္ရာေပၚေပါက္ပါက စာခ်ဳပ္ပါ အခ်က္မ်ားအတုိင္း ေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အထက္တန္းေရႇ႕ေနတစ္ဦး ကအၾကံေပးေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာအလုပ္ သမားမ်ားေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္သည့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားမႇာ ''အလုပ္သမားသည္ ျပည္ပတြင္အလုပ္ခြင္ ထိခိုက္မႈအတြက္ ရထုိက္ခြင့္ရႇိသည့္ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး၊ နစ္နာ ေၾကးအျပည့္အ၀ ရရႇိေစေရးအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရန္ သက္ဆုိင္ရာအက်ဳိး ေဆာင္မႇတစ္ဆင့္ ေတာင္းဆုိခြင့္ရႇိ သည္။ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ႏႇင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ ရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား နစ္နာဆုံး႐ႈံးမႈအတြက္ တရားမေၾကာင္း အရျဖစ္ေစ၊ ျပစ္မႈေၾကာင္းအရျဖစ္ေစ တရားစြဲဆုိခြင့္ရႇိသည္'' ဟူ၍ ျပည္ပ အလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒ၏အခန္း ၈၊ အလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ တာ၀န္ႏႇင့္အခြင့္ အေရးမ်ား ေအာက္ရႇိ ပုဒ္မ ၂၄ တြင္ ျပ႒ာန္းထားသည္ကုိ ေတြ႕ရသည္။

မႇတ္ပုံတင္ၿပီး ျပည္ပသုိ႔သြားေရာက္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္သည့္ အလုပ္သမားသည္ ျပည္ပတြင္အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္ေနစဥ္ ထူးျခားသည့္အလုပ္အကုိင္ အေျခအေနကုိ သက္ဆုိင္ရာအက်ဳိး ေဆာင္သုိ႔ သတ္မႇတ္ခ်က္မ်ားႏႇင့္အညီ သတင္းပုိ႔ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ႏႇင့္ဆက္သြယ္၍ သြားေရာက္ လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့ျခင္းမဟုတ္ပါက သက္ဆုုိင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံး သို႔မဟုတ္ ေကာင္စစ္ ၀န္႐ုံးသို႔ သတ္မႇတ္ခ်က္မ်ားႏႇင့္အညီ သတင္းပုိ႔ ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဆုိပါ ႐ုံးမ်ားမရႇိလ်င္ ဦးစီးဌာနသုိ႔ သတင္းပုိ႔ရမည္ဟူ၍ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ ရာဥပေဒ၏ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားတာ၀န္ တြင္ ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ကုိေတြ႕ရသည္။

မေလးရႇားတြင္ စားပြဲထုိးအလုပ္ရမည္ ေျပာေသာ္လည္း လက္ေတြ႕တြင္ ေျပာသည့္အတုိင္း အလုပ္မရရႇိခဲ့ဘဲ ေဂါက္ကြင္းတစ္ခုတြင္သာ ေအာက္ေျခသိမ္းအလုပ္ရရႇိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရႇိ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုပ္ငန္းအခ်ဳိ႕သည္ မည္သည့္ အလုပ္ရပါမည္ဟုအာမခံ သည့္အတုိင္း ျပည္ပတြင္ အလုပ္ရႇာ မေပးႏုိင္သူမ်ား မ်ားျပားေနေၾကာင္း မေလးရႇားႏုိင္ငံတြင္ သြားေရာက္အလုပ္ လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့သူတစ္ဦးက ဆုိပါသည္။

''ကြၽန္ေတာ္နဲ႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ့ေယာက္ဖ ႏႇစ္ေယာက္စလုံး မေလးရႇားမႇာ အလုပ္ သြားလုပ္ပါတယ္။ ေအးဂ်င့္ေတြက ေတာ့ ဟုိမေရာက္ခင္ ဘာအလုပ္ရပါ မယ္၊ ဘယ္လုိ လစာေကာင္းပါမယ္ ေျပာတာပါပဲ။ ဟုိမႇာ သူတို႔ေျပာတဲ့ အတုိင္း အလုပ္ေရာ လစာေရာမရလုိ႔ အရင္းေက်ေအာင္မနည္းလုပ္ၿပီး ျပန္လာခဲ့ရပါတယ္'' ဟု တာေမြၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းေနထုိင္သူတစ္ဦးက ဆုိပါသည္။

ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ႏႇင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ တရား႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ေရႇ႕ေနတစ္ဦးက ''ဘယ္လုိလူမ်ဳိးမဆုိ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုိင္စင္မရႇိဘဲ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုပ္ငန္း ကုိလုပ္ကုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ ျပစ္မႈထင္ရႇား စီရင္ျခင္းခံရရင္ အဲဒီလူကုိ ေထာင္ ဒဏ္ ခုနစ္ႏႇစ္အထိ ခ်မႇတ္လုိ႔ရတဲ့ အျပင္ေငြဒဏ္လည္း ခ်မႇတ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုိင္စင္ရႇိသူက ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕က သတ္မႇတ္တဲ့၀န္ေဆာင္ခထက္ ပုိမုိေတာင္းခံတာျပစ္မႈထင္ရႇားရင္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္သုံးႏႇစ္အထိ ခ်မႇတ္လုိ႔ ရတဲ့အျပင္ ေငြဒဏ္လည္း ခ်မႇတ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိျပစ္မႈနဲ႔ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ေတြကုိ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒပုဒ္မ ၂၆ နဲ႔ ၂၇ မႇာဆုိထားပါ တယ္''ဟု ရႇင္းျပခဲ့သည္။ျပည္ပတြင္ ေရာက္ရႇိေနေသာ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား အခြင့္အေရးနစ္နာမႈၾကံဳေတြ႕ပါက အလုပ္အကုိင္ရႇာေဖြေရး ေအဂ်င္စီမ်ား က ျပည္ပလုပ္ငန္းရႇင္မ်ားႏႇင့္ ဆက္သြယ္၍ ရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားအတြက္ တာ၀န္ယူေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။

ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား တြင္ ေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္သည့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား တရား၀င္ သတ္မႇတ္ေပးထားေသာ္လည္း သိရႇိသူနည္းပါးေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ရသင့္သည့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ဆုံး႐ႈံးေနရေၾကာင္း ျပည္ပတြင္ သြားေရာက္လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့သူမ်ားထံမႇ သိရသည္။

ထုိ႔ျပင္ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုိင္စင္ရရႇိသူ၏ တာ၀န္ ႏႇင့္အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ေအာက္တြင္ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုိင္စင္ရရႇိသူသည္ အလုပ္သမား၏ ရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား နစ္နာဆုံး႐ႈံးမႈျဖစ္ေပၚလာပါက သက္ဆုိင္ရာျပည္ပလုပ္ငန္းရႇင္ႏႇင့္ ဆက္ သြယ္၍ ယင္းရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား အျပည့္အ၀ရရႇိခံစားႏုိင္ေရး အတြက္ တာ၀န္ယူေဆာင္ရြက္ရမည္။ စာခ်ဳပ္ရႇိပါက ယင္းစာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သေဘာတူထားသည့္ တာ၀န္မ်ားကုိ အလုပ္သမားအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမည္ ဟူသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ကုိ သိရသည္။

ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုိင္စင္ရႇိသူ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ႏႇင့္ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားၾကား စာခ်ဳပ္ရႇိပါက ယင္းစာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သေဘာတူထားသည့္ တာ၀န္မ်ားကုိ အလုပ္သမားအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရမည္ဟူသည့္ အခ်က္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ျဖစ္ရာ ျပည္ပသုိ႔ သြားေရာက္လုိေသာ အလုပ္သမား မ်ားအေနျဖင့္အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ႏႇင့္ေဆာင္ ရြက္ရာတြင္ တရား၀င္စာခ်ဳပ္စာတမ္း မ်ားခ်ဳပ္ဆုိျခင္း၊ စာခ်ဳပ္ထဲတြင္ မိမိ လုိခ်င္သည့္ အေၾကာင္းအရာအခ်က္ အလက္မ်ား ျပည့္ျပည့္စုံစုံထည့္သြင္း ခ်ဳပ္ဆုိျခင္းတုိ႔ေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္ေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိသုိ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဆုိမႇသာ နစ္နာမႈ တစ္စုံ တစ္ရာေပၚေပါက္ပါက စာခ်ဳပ္ပါ အခ်က္မ်ားအတုိင္း ေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အထက္တန္းေရႇ႕ေနတစ္ဦး ကအၾကံေပးေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာအလုပ္ သမားမ်ားေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္သည့္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားမႇာ ''အလုပ္သမားသည္ ျပည္ပတြင္အလုပ္ခြင္ ထိခိုက္မႈအတြက္ ရထုိက္ခြင့္ရႇိသည့္ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး၊ နစ္နာ ေၾကးအျပည့္အ၀ ရရႇိေစေရးအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးရန္ သက္ဆုိင္ရာအက်ဳိး ေဆာင္မႇတစ္ဆင့္ ေတာင္းဆုိခြင့္ရႇိ သည္။ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ႏႇင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ ရပုိင္ခြင့္ႏႇင့္အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား နစ္နာဆုံး႐ႈံးမႈအတြက္ တရားမေၾကာင္း အရျဖစ္ေစ၊ ျပစ္မႈေၾကာင္းအရျဖစ္ေစ တရားစြဲဆုိခြင့္ရႇိသည္'' ဟူ၍ ျပည္ပ အလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒ၏အခန္း ၈၊ အလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ တာ၀န္ႏႇင့္အခြင့္ အေရးမ်ား ေအာက္ရႇိ ပုဒ္မ ၂၄ တြင္ ျပ႒ာန္းထားသည္ကုိ ေတြ႕ရသည္။

မႇတ္ပုံတင္ၿပီး ျပည္ပသုိ႔သြားေရာက္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္သည့္ အလုပ္သမားသည္ ျပည္ပတြင္အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္ေနစဥ္ ထူးျခားသည့္အလုပ္အကုိင္ အေျခအေနကုိ သက္ဆုိင္ရာအက်ဳိး ေဆာင္သုိ႔ သတ္မႇတ္ခ်က္မ်ားႏႇင့္အညီ သတင္းပုိ႔ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ႏႇင့္ဆက္သြယ္၍ သြားေရာက္ လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့ျခင္းမဟုတ္ပါက သက္ဆုုိင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံး သို႔မဟုတ္ ေကာင္စစ္ ၀န္႐ုံးသို႔ သတ္မႇတ္ခ်က္မ်ားႏႇင့္အညီ သတင္းပုိ႔ ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဆုိပါ ႐ုံးမ်ားမရႇိလ်င္ ဦးစီးဌာနသုိ႔ သတင္းပုိ႔ရမည္ဟူ၍ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ ရာဥပေဒ၏ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားတာ၀န္ တြင္ ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ကုိေတြ႕ရသည္။

မေလးရႇားတြင္ စားပြဲထုိးအလုပ္ရမည္ ေျပာေသာ္လည္း လက္ေတြ႕တြင္ ေျပာသည့္အတုိင္း အလုပ္မရရႇိခဲ့ဘဲ ေဂါက္ကြင္းတစ္ခုတြင္သာ ေအာက္ေျခသိမ္းအလုပ္ရရႇိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရႇိ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုပ္ငန္းအခ်ဳိ႕သည္ မည္သည့္ အလုပ္ရပါမည္ဟုအာမခံ သည့္အတုိင္း ျပည္ပတြင္ အလုပ္ရႇာ မေပးႏုိင္သူမ်ား မ်ားျပားေနေၾကာင္း မေလးရႇားႏုိင္ငံတြင္ သြားေရာက္အလုပ္ လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့သူတစ္ဦးက ဆုိပါသည္။

''ကြၽန္ေတာ္နဲ႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ့ေယာက္ဖ ႏႇစ္ေယာက္စလုံး မေလးရႇားမႇာ အလုပ္ သြားလုပ္ပါတယ္။ ေအးဂ်င့္ေတြက ေတာ့ ဟုိမေရာက္ခင္ ဘာအလုပ္ရပါ မယ္၊ ဘယ္လုိ လစာေကာင္းပါမယ္ ေျပာတာပါပဲ။ ဟုိမႇာ သူတို႔ေျပာတဲ့ အတုိင္း အလုပ္ေရာ လစာေရာမရလုိ႔ အရင္းေက်ေအာင္မနည္းလုပ္ၿပီး ျပန္လာခဲ့ရပါတယ္'' ဟု တာေမြၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းေနထုိင္သူတစ္ဦးက ဆုိပါသည္။

ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ႏႇင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ တရား႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ေရႇ႕ေနတစ္ဦးက ''ဘယ္လုိလူမ်ဳိးမဆုိ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုိင္စင္မရႇိဘဲ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုပ္ငန္း ကုိလုပ္ကုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ ျပစ္မႈထင္ရႇား စီရင္ျခင္းခံရရင္ အဲဒီလူကုိ ေထာင္ ဒဏ္ ခုနစ္ႏႇစ္အထိ ခ်မႇတ္လုိ႔ရတဲ့ အျပင္ေငြဒဏ္လည္း ခ်မႇတ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုိင္စင္ရႇိသူက ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕က သတ္မႇတ္တဲ့၀န္ေဆာင္ခထက္ ပုိမုိေတာင္းခံတာျပစ္မႈထင္ရႇားရင္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္သုံးႏႇစ္အထိ ခ်မႇတ္လုိ႔ ရတဲ့အျပင္ ေငြဒဏ္လည္း ခ်မႇတ္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိျပစ္မႈနဲ႔ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ေတြကုိ ျပည္ပအလုပ္အကုိင္ဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒပုဒ္မ ၂၆ နဲ႔ ၂၇ မႇာဆုိထားပါ တယ္''ဟု ရႇင္းျပခဲ့သည္။

source: first-11 Media

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ပီနန္တြင္ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္၌ ေသဆံုးသြားေသာ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားႏွစ္ဦးအတြက္ နစ္နာေၾကးရရိွရန္ ကူညီေပးမႈ

To
His Excellency
Chief Minister
Pinang State Government

Date:

Subject: :Two legal Burmese migrant workers died at work in bayan lepas

Dear Sir,

We would like to inform you about two legal Burmese migrant workers who died at work in bayan lepas, pulau pinang on 30th May, 2009. The dead bodies of two workers have been kept in hospital Dato keramat Timur laut, George Town. When they died, they were working at project 112b-5 Jln permatang damar laut,Taman gembira, 11900 bayan lepas, pulau pinang . Their names are San Maung (passport no: A014430) and Saw Htay( passprot no: 890515). Their work permit will be expired on 8th October, 2009. They were working at E T construction Sdn Bhd, No. 1.v, jln berika 2, Bdr baru air itam, ayer itam, 11500 pulau pinang. The employer failed to follow the Malaysia employment Act 1955. The employer wants to do the funeral of two workers quietly and hasn't paid any compensation yet for two dead workers.
Therefore, we have already informed the Pinang Labour Department on 3rd June, 2009 regarding this case The labour department is investigating the case of two dead workers.

We would like to request you to urge the employer to follow the current existing Malaysia labour law and pay the compensation to the families of two dead workers as soon as possible.

We are informing your Excellency on behalf of the families of two dead workers.

Thank you
Tun Tun
Director
Burma Campaign Malaysia


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ေမာင္သန္းခ်စ္ဦး လုပ္ငန္းခြင္တြင္ ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရ၍ ေလွ်ာ္ေၾကးရရန္ လိုက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမႈ မွတ္တမ္း

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လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မရွင္မွ ပီနန္တြင္ေသဆံုးသြားေသာ ျမန္မာႏွစ္ဦးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ အေၾကာင္းျပန္စာ

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ပီနန္းရွိ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရးစခန္းတြင္ ေသဆံုးသြားေသာ ျမန္မာႏွစ္ဦးႏွင့္ ပါတ္သက္ၿပီး လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မရွင္မွ စံုစမ္းေပးပါရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္

DEATH OF 2 BURMESE INDICATIVE OF STATE OF DETENTION PLACES IN MALAYSIA

DENIAL OF HEALTHCARE IS A VIOLATION OF RIGHT TO LIFE

We, the undersigned, are alarmed to hear that Sa La Hin, 26, and Thang Hoih Ping, 21, two Burmese migrants, have died in the Malaysia’s Juru Immigration Detention Centre from Leptospirosis. This is disease that is usually caused by exposure to water contaminated with the urine of infected animals, such as rodents, cattle, pigs, horses, dogs and wild animals. The fact, that 2 persons are dead and others have been infected by this disease, again highlights the state of hygiene, cleanliness and healthcare at Malaysian Detention Centres.

We recall that it was reported in the media in December 2008, that "About 1,300 illegal foreigners have died during detention in the past six years, Malaysia Nanban quoted Malaysian Human Rights (Suhakam) commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam as saying. He said many of them died in immigration detention centres, prisons and police lockups because they were denied medical treatment at the right time.” [Star, 18/12/2008, ‘1,300 foreign detainees died due to neglect’]. Now, Sa La Hin and Thang Hoih Ping may just be the latest additions to that list of detainees that died due to similar reasons.

We also recall the words of SUHAKAM in their response to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) dated 13/1/2009, that correctly stated that ‘…SUHAKAM views the denial of medical attention to the point of endangering one’s life as a serious violation of that person’s right to life….’

These deaths may have been avoided if medical attention was provided promptly, and we call for an independent public inquiry to determine whether there was such negligence on the part of the Ikatan Relawan Rakyat or better known as RELA (a People's Volunteer Corps), and the Immigration officers, who are currently responsible for Immigration Detention Centres in Malaysia.

We do appreciate the fact that the Director General of Immigration has now decided that ‘cleanliness and hygiene at immigration depots nationwide are to be stepped-up to ensure safety of staff and inmates there against contracting infectious diseases’ (Bernama, 19/5/2009, Cleanliness, Hygiene at Immigration Depot to Be Stepped Up).

We hope that this is not merely a knee-jerk response, which is temporary in nature, but a new and permanent commitment by Malaysia to improve standards and conditions of Detention Centres and other places of detention.

The current once a week visit by a medical officer to the Detention Centres is certainly inadequate. There should be, at the very least, a permanent clinic/dispensary manned by a medical assistant, with a doctor visiting detainees for several hours at least once every two days or more frequently.

New users of the Detention facility should also be determined free from easily transmittable diseases like Tuberculosis and the A(H1N1) flu before being introduced to the general population of detention places.

There should also be regular visits by the Health Officer, who shall monitor the conditions, including of the living and sleeping environment, of the Detention Centre to ensure that it meets the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness.

The foods, and all aspects of food preparation, also need to be monitored by the Health Department especially since there is a possibility that the fault in the recent deaths could be the current caterer of food and drink.

With regard to those who have died, we are of the opinion that their family and/or dependents should be given adequate compensation by the persons responsible, the detaining authority and the Malaysian government.

Officers and persons responsible for the acts or omissions that resulted in death and suffering should be charged and prosecuted for these crimes. They should not be permitted to hide behind safeguards provided to public servants and/or the RELA volunteers, which unfortunately only promotes culture of impunity with no sense of responsibility and respect for human life.

We, the undersigned, call on the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) to immediately commence a public inquiry into these deaths and detention places generally, and come up with concrete recommendations which could be implemented that will improve state of cleanliness, hygiene and healthcare of all detention places in Malaysia.

We are also call upon the Ministry of Health and the government of Malaysia to take necessary steps to ensure that proper steps be taken to ensure that such disregard for life does not happen again.

We reiterate the call for the abolition of RELA, and restate our position that law enforcement, and management of detention places should be done by professionally trained full-time public servants, not volunteers.

Charles Hector

Pranom Somwong

For and on behalf of the 127 organizations/ groups listed below:-

Action for Health Initiatives (ACHIEVE), Inc, Philippines

Action Network for Migrants (ANM), Thailand

All Women's Action Society (AWAM), Malaysia

Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma

Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD)

Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM), Hong Kong

Asia-Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC)

Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Link (APWSL), Korea

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)

Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body - Hong Kong (AMCB-HK)

Assistance Association for Political Prisoners ( Burma )-AAPP

Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers (Asosiasi Tenaga Kerja Indonesia )

Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Bar Council Human Rights Committee , Malaysia

Bar Council's Legal Aid Centre , Malaysia

BAYAN USA

Building and Wood Workers International, Asia Pacific Regional Office

Burma Campaign Australia

Burma Campaign , Malaysia

Burma Campaign UK

Burma Centre Delhi (BCD)

Burma's Nationalities Association (BNA)- Norway

Burma Partnership

Cambodian Women's Crisis Center , Cambodia

Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB)

CDS (Community Development Services), Sri Lanka

Center for Migrant Advocacy, Philippines

Center for Indonesian Migrant Workers - CIMW – Indonesia

Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC), Malaysia

Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS), Malaysia

Chin Human Rights Organization

Civil Society Committee of LLG Cultural Development Centre (LLGCSC) Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach ( USA )

Commission For Filipino Migrant Workers (CFMW) - The Netherlands

Committee for Asian Women (CAW)

Coordination of Action Research on AIDS & Mobility (CARAM - Asia )

Clean Clothes Campaign International Secretariat

Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS), Burma

Development Action for Women Network (DAWN), Philippines

Empower Foundation, Thailand

Ethnic Nationalities Council

Federation of Trade Unions - Burma

FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights

Filipino Migrant Workers' Union - Hong Kong (FMWU)

Forum for Democracy in Burma

Foundation for Education and Development (Formerly, Grassroots HRE ( Burma )

Free Burma Coalition - Philippines (FBC-Phils)

Free Burma Campaign , South Africa

Friends of Burma , Malaysia

Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)

HAKAM - National Human Rights Society , Malaysia

Health Equity Initiatives, Malaysia

H.O.M.E. (Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics), Singapore

Hope Workers’ Center , Taiwan

HRWG - Indonesia 's NGO Coalition for International Advocacy

Hsinchu Catholic Diocese Migrants and New Immigrants Service Center , Taiwan

Human Rights Foundation of Monland

IMPARSIAL, the Indonesia Human Rights Monitor, Jakarta – Indonesia

INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development)

Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID)

Institute for National and Democratic Studies ( INDIES )

International Migrant Foundation-Banglade sh

Kachin Women's Association Thailand

KAFIN Migrant Center, Japan

KAFIN - Saitama , Japan

Kayan National Development Foundation (KNDF)

Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human rights Organisation (KKKHRO), Cambodia

Labornet Korea

Labour Resource Centre , Malaysia

Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW), Cambodia

LHRLA (Lawyers for Human Rights & Legal Aid), Pakistan

MADPET (Malaysians against Death Penalty and Torture)

Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC)

Mekong Migration Network (MMN)

Migrant CARE, Perhimpunan Indonesia untuk Buruh Migran Berdaulat

Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)

Migrant Rights International (MRI)

MIGRANTE Europe

MIGRANTE Middle East

MIGRANTE International

MIGRANTE - Nagoya

MIGRANTE - UAE

Mindanao Migrants Center for Empowering Actions, Inc. (MMCEAI)

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM)

National Democratic Party for Human Rights(NDPHR) (exile),SEA Regional Office

National League for Democracy [NLD (LA)], Malaysia

National Institute for Electoral Integrity (NIEI), Malaysia

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, U.S.

Network for Democracy and Development, Thailand

Network of Action for Migrants in Malaysia (NAMM)

New Zealand Burma Support Group

NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

OKUP (Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program), Bangladesh

Osan Migrant Workers Center in South Korea

Overseas Mon Coordinating Committee (OMCC)

Pakistan Rural Workers Social; Welfare Organization

Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF)

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)

Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM)

Peoples Service Organization (PSO), Malaysia

Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangot (EMPOWER)

Persatuan Masyarakat Selangor & Wilayah Persekutuan (PERMAS), Malaysia

Persatuan Sahabat Wanita, Selangor

Platform of Filipino Migrant Organisations in Europe - The Netherlands

POURAKHI, Nepal

Pusat KOMAS, Malaysia

Raks Thai Foundation , Thailand

Rohingya Youth Development Forum (RYDF), Malaysia

Shan Refugee Organization Malaysia (SRO)

Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN)

Shwe Gas Movement

Solidaritas Perempuan, Indonesia

St. John's Cathedral HIV Education Centre, Hong Kong

Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)

Tenaganita, Malaysia

The Foundation for the Health and Knowledge of Ethnic Labour (MAP)

The Justice, Peace & Solidarity in Mission Office, The Good Shepherd Sisters

The Micah Mandate

Transient Workers Count Too, Singapore

United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-MIGRANTE- HK)

U.S. Campaign for Burma

WARBE Development Foundation - Bangladesh

Women's Aid Organisation (WAO), Malaysia

Women's League of Burma

Workers Hub for Change (WH4C)

Yaung Chi Oo Workers Association (YCOWA), Thailand

Sources:

http://workershub4change.blogspot.com/2009/07/suhakams-response-to-127-organisation.html

http://charleshector.blogspot.com/

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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား မတရားသျဖင့္ ထပ္မံဖမ္းဆီးမႈအတြက္ ေၾကျငာခ်က္

WITHDRAW ABSURD CHARGES AGAINST AUNG SAN SUU KYI

RELEASE IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BURMA

We, the undersigned, are shocked that Aung San Suu Kyi has now been absurdly charged for the offence of breaking the terms of her house arrest, in particular the condition that forbids visitors, after an American man, swam across the lake and entered her house uninvited and refused to leave.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her two assistants were reported to have been charged on 14/5/2009 with breach of detention under Section 22 of the Law Safeguarding the State from the Dangers of Subversive Elements, and their trial is scheduled to begin on Monday (18/5/2009) in an Insein Prison special court set up to handle political dissidents.

American, John William Yettaw, 53, of Falcon, Missouri swam across Inya Lake on the night of May 3 and left the compound early on the night of May 5, swimming a distance of about 2 kilometers. Authorities arrested him later that morning.

In Burma , it is also against the law for a foreigner to stay in the home of a Burmese citizen overnight without approval from authorities.

Dr. Tin Myo Win, Suu Kyi’s family physician, also will allegedly be charged in connection with Yettaw’s staying in Suu Kyi’s compound overnight. Yettaw himself is also expected to be charged, presumably for violating one of Burma ’s internal security laws.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her two assistants, have been taken from her home and is currently being detained in the infamous Insein Prison since 14/5/2009.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, the leader of the National League for Democracy(NLD), has spent 13 of the past 19 years in virtual isolation in her home since the Burmese military junta refused to recognise NLD's landslide victory in the country's last elections in 1990.

The most recent, six-year period of detention is due to end on May 27. The junta’s justification for keeping her locked away under the provisions of this draconian 1975 national security law was to protect the state from "destructive elements". Many speculate that this recent incident was created or being manipulated to discredit Suu Kyi and provide justification for the military government to extend her house arrest again.

We call for the immediate withdrawal of this absurd charge levied against Aung San Suu Kyi, and her 2 assistants;

We also call for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Burma ;

We call for ASEAN and ASEAN member governments, including Malaysia, to immediately intervene and urge the government of Burma to respect human rights, and to adhere to the numerous United Nations resolutions, including General Assembly Resolution 49/197 [1995], which, amongst others, “…call on the Government of Myanmar to release unconditionally and immediately the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now in her sixth year of detention without trial, and other political leaders and remaining political prisoners…’

We also call on the United Nations(UN), the European Union(EU) and all concerned nations to act for the immediate withdrawal of this absurd charge, to secure the immediate and unconditional release of all political detainees and to restore democracy and human rights to Burma and its peoples.

Charles Hector

Pranom Somwong

for and on behalf of the following 22 organisations,

All Women's Action Society (AWAM)

Amnesty Malaysia

Burma Campaign , Malaysia

Civil Society Committee of LLG Cultural Development Centre (LLGCSC)

Coordination of Action Research on AIDS & Mobility (CARAM-ASIA )

Friends of Burma , Malaysia

MADPET (Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture)

Malaysia Youth and Student Democratic Movement (DEMA)

Migration Working Group (MWG)

Myanmar Refugee Volunteer Group (MRVG)

National Democratic Party for Human Rights (NDPHR-Exile) Malaysia

National Institute for Electoral Intergrity (NIEI)

Network of Action for Migrants in Malaysia (NAMM)

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)

Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM)

Persatuan Masyarakat Selangor & Wilayah Persekutuan (PERMAS), Malaysia

Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER)

Pusat KOMAS

Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)

Tenaganita

Workers Hub For Change (WH4C)

Writer Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI)

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ဂ်ိဳဟိုးမွ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားအလုပ္ခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ လုပ္အားခအတြက္ကူညီေပးမႈ

Information Release 06/2009

Date 29 April 2009

The factory of UNIBASE SDN BHD is based in Gelang Patah town ship, Johor state. The company is based in Sukudai, Johor. The Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Indonesian and Burmese migrant workers are working in that factory. The factory product is trowel ling works for segment, segment ready, segment casting process etc. the company originally contracted to pay Burmese workers daily wage but the really payment on a piece rate basis. But the workers are not receiving the full rate per piece. Deductions are made before they receive their specified pay per piece. They have to work from 8 am to 10 pm every day. Workers can not get medical leave when they are sick. If they have an accident at the work place, they don’t receive proper treatment. If workers make mistakes, they receive deductions from their salary. The company is not using their pay slips.

The workers built their huts by them self and stay there. The company deducted RM 600 since they arrived at the factory on September 2008 until December 2008. The workers discussed their problem with their section leader Mr. Samsudin, regarding the injustice of wages and other rights but there was no action. On 7 April 2009, the section leader suspended 9 Burmese workers.

The workers contacted to the labour department of BCM to help them with their problem. On 16 April 2009, BCM (Ko Harun) went to Johor for detail about their situation. The next day, 9 Burmese workers and Ko Harun went to the labour office which is under the human resource ministry and the workers reported to labour Officer Nur Afeza Binti Jaafar the abuses and unlawful deductions. The labour office said they would investigate their problem. After that, someone rang Ko Harun hand phone and threatened him and hand up. In the evening, the company management contacted Ko Harun and asked about the workers demands and negotiations. We attach the entire workers name, passport numbers and signatures.

For more information

Ko Tun Tun 016-2980 784

Ko Harun 016-2444 167

bcmtuntun@yahoo.com

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ဂ်ိဳဟိုးမွ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားတို႕ အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမႈ

Information release 05

Date 29 April 2009

Local Basic SDN BHD (355228-D) is based in Nusajaya Township, Johor state. Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Philippines, Sri Lankan and Burmese migrant workers are working in this factory. The factory is doing Machining, surface finishing and assembly of fabricated metal products. The factory is working under ISO 9001 QMS and ISO 14001 EMS but the authorities have not provided working equipment such as safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, ear muffs etc. If the workers don’t use, they safety equipment, factory management will fine them. The fine is various styles. If the workers make mistakes the supervisors or line leaders will beat, slap, kick or push the workers. The workers find it very difficult to get medical leave. So they work even when they are sick. The workers are working overtime more than 120 hours per month. These are not normal hours and do not include rest days. Most of the workers are not skilled so their work is difficult and dangerous.

The living conditions are poor because up to 35 people are sharing a room 10x25 square feet in size. Thus, the rooms are over crowded and unhygienic. Water and electricity are paid for by workers. All of the workers must eat at the factory canteen. The authorities do not allow other food. If they don’t obey, they will be fined RM 50. The workers started to complain about the working conditions and turn to the labour department of Burma campaign Malaysia. BCM explained the worker right in Malaysia and also help them to write down their demands. The workers reported to Galang Patah police station, asking them to investigate about the abuses and violations of labour rights.

On 13th March 2009, 10 am, the factory operation manager Mr. Simon Wong and Human resource manager Mr. Foong Kok Leong arrived at the police station to discuss the police report. The factory has over 100 Burmese workers. All of them are not company work permit workers. Some of the workers have been recruited from Ever Green Reliance SDN BHD. During this economic recession, the factory doesn’t have so many orders so 25 workers have been sent back to Ever Green Reliance SDN BHD. Therefore workers can not report to the labour office of human resource ministry for their demands.

But the human resource manager Mr. Foong promised the labour department of BCM and the police that they will not abuse their workers and will follow the current Malaysia labour law in future. This information has been provided by Mr. Charles Hector, The Network Action for Migrant in Malaysia and Ms. Pranom Somwong, Migrant Hub foundation. We also attach the police report and other documents which are required.

For more information

Ko Tun Tun 016-2980 784

Ko Harun 016-2444 167

Ko Yan Naing Tun 010-2066 085

bcmtuntun@yahoo.com

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ဂ်ိဳဟိုးမွျပန္ပို႕ခံရေသာ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ားေနာက္ဆံုးအေျခအေန

15th December 2008

I myself Tun Tun and Ko Latt went to TENAGANTIA NGO office at 9:30 in the morning and asking for some suggestions for the workers. Ms. Pusenthi P. Manaim , the programme officer replied us that everyone in their office was busy with its annual report. At that moment, they were not able to accept any new case until January 2009, they explained.

Therefore, myself and Ko Latt contacted Mr. Tian Chua for some help. Mr. Tian Chua suggested us to contact Mr. Din from Labour Resource Centre (LRC). Afterwards, at 3 pm, we visited LRC bringing three Burmese and three Nepalese migrant workers from Johor state together with us. After one hour discussing with Mr. Din regarding the problem between employees and employers, Mr. Din informed Mr. Syed Shahir, President of MTCU. Then Mr. Syed Shahir contacted and requested Mr. Mohan, Chief of MTCU from Johor state to provide necessary assistance for the migrant workers.

Then, the officer from Johor state labour department told us that on 16th December 2008, Mr. Subra Maniam, Minister of Human Resource Ministry had a schedule to meet with the employer who had problems with our fellow workers. The aim of the meeting was to discuss about Malaysian workers who losing their worker rights, he explained. However, the labour officer said in that meeting, he wasn't sure whether they will discuss about foreign migrant workers' issue. But, the labour told us that if the workers' representatives provide him with necessary information, he will pass that information to the Minister during the meeting.

At the moment, all workers are anxiously waiting for the outcome from that meeting. At the same time, the employer has stopped the workers to use their bank accounts. Previously, workers' wages were normally channeled through their bank accounts. The reason is that we have been informed that the employer was planning to buy the air tickets to send the workers back to their origin of country by using those workers' money. In reality, the employer has to pay for the air tickets from his money for the workers' return. We have heard that it was already arranged to send 40 Burmese migrant workers back to Burma on 16th December 2008 at 8 pm.

16th December 2008

Two Burmese and two Nepalese worker representatives went to the labour department in Johor Baruh and tried to inform Mr. Mohan the cases of migrant workers. Mr. Mohan told them to wait and they waited for quiet long time. Finally, the worker representatives tried directly to meet with the minister of Human Resource Ministry. Then, Mr. Abidin Olhman accepted them for a brief meeting and told them that labour officers will come to their factory and settle the problems between employer and employees. At 1 pm, all of the worker representatives went back to their factory.

While the worker representatives were in human resource office, the office manager took their photos as record and said that he has to send the photos to the police. It caused the worker representatives getting worry and they had to hide away from the factory for a short period. About 3 pm, the officers from labour office arrived at the factory and told the workers that workers' demands will not be met due to the global economic downturn. And for those workers whose work-permits are expired will be sent back to their origin of country, the officers said. Therefore, the officers told the workers to work regularly and save the money to buy the air tickets. After that the labour officers said they will continue to discuss everything details with three worker representatives on 17th December 2008.

At 8 pm, when night shift workers went into the factory, the factory manager told them that for those who didn't work on previous day didn't need to work again and workers went sent back to their hostel. At 11 pm, buses were ready to take those 40 workers to the airport. Some of those 40 workers have to receive their wages from previous working days, but they weren't paid.

Concerning this issue, Burma Campaign Malaysia (BCM) informed Mr. Din in detail. Mr. Din told us he will continue to inform Mr. Abdullah Sani, Member of Parliament from Kuala Langat constituency to be able to take necessary action.

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ကမၻာစီးပြါးေရး က်ဆင္းမႈေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား ေနရပ္သို႕ ျပန္ပို႕ခံရမႈ

Conflict between employees and employers

In Malaysia, there are more than 500 migrant workers who are currently working in INNO VALUES PRECISION SDN BHD (Co. Reg No. 454311-D) at Pasir Gudang in Johor State.
These workers are mainly from Burma, Nepal and Vietnam. Many Malaysian workers are also working there. This company is a Singapore registered one and it has branch factories in China, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea.

Majority of foreign workers have the right to work eight hours a day and one day day-off a week. The daily wages of the workers is 18.50 RM. The workers earn between 750 and 850 RM a month including working for extra working time. However, the salary of the workers is not increased, but some have been given just allowance. But the workers enjoy this allowance for only short period of time such as two or three months. On 22nd August 2007, the Burmese worker named Mr. Tin Lin (passport no. 880009) had to cut his thumb shortly after he had the accident in the factory. In that case, the factory authorities did not pay any compensation to him. Besides, according to the regulation of the factory, if a worker is absent to work for a day, he or she will be barred to work for a week. When the workers are sick, the clinic of the factory gives the workers the medical treatment, however the workers have no right to have their health benefit.

At the moment, global economic crisis is affecting every part of the world economy. As a result, many factories have to reduce its work-force. However, the authorities of this company did not follow the existing labour law of Malaysia while reducing the number of the workers. Instead, that company authorities are putting pressure on the workers to quit the jobs.

At the same time, the manager of human resource department of this factory has been treating the workers in inappropriate manner. Therefore, some workers have informed the local police station on that issue.

Currently, the workers from this factory have demanded factory authorities the following points:

1. To remove the manager of human resource department to other factory located in abroad.
2. Due to the lacking of extra working hours in this month, to stop collecting monthly levy fund. 3. To resume 4 hour extra working time a day for the workers.
4. To provide night shift allowance for those workers who work at night.
The local Malaysian workers also demanded similar points to the factory authorities. The factory authorities replied that they will respond the demands of the workers on 15th December 2008. Since 11th December 2008, many foreign workers are now stopping to work in the factory and staying at their residential places which are provided by the factory.

Concerning the above mentioned cases, the workers contacted Burma Campaign Malaysia (BCM) through Lanthit journal to help them. Mr. Tun Tun and Mr. Yan Naing Tun from BCM went to Pasir Gudang in Johor to collect the facts about the conflict between employers and employees on 13th December 2008. The BCM is now consulting with concerned NGOs, Mr. Tian Chua, MP and information Chief of PKR, also advisor of BCM, Mr. Moe Swe of Ywanchioo workers' association and TENAGANITA NGO for further activities.

The copies of police inform sheet and demand paper of the workers which were signed by the workers are attached with this letter.
For more information, please contact;
Mr. Tun Tun 016 2980785 wnyunt@hotmail.com
Mr. Ko Latt 016 3210966 kolatt88@yahoo.com
Mr. Yan Naing Tun 017 3886062 yannaingtun88@yahoo.com

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ခင္ေဇာ္ႏွင့္အဖြဲ႕ေနာက္ဆံုးသတင္း

Latest Situation of Khin Zaw and His Eight Other Friends

Around 11:20 am, Ko Harun, Khin Zaw and Kyaw Hlaing Win went to TENAGANITA SDN BHD office. Pusenthi P. Manaim, the programme officer discussed with them how to carry on the case. About 3 pm, Mr. Andre Shum, the Managing Director of Vm Capital SDN BHD arrived at TENAGANITA office. On behalf of the owner of Sea House Food industry, Andre Shum complained that Khin Zaw and his friends did the wrong way (it meant that Khin Zaw and friends informing the police). In such kind of case, informing the police is not relevant according to the Malaysian law, said Andre. Andre pointed out, according to the Malaysian law, foreign workers have no right to oppose or boycott their employer and if the workers did, they would be deported back to their origin of country.

The root cause of this problem was that the employer forced the employees to work without unlimited working-hours everyday.

Ms Sani has tried to compromise between workers and Mr. Andre Shum, the representative of the employer. Mr. Andre agreed on the condition, if the workers go back to work, the workers will be paid their two months wages which were previously kept as deposit money by the employer. Mr. Andre Shum said that his boss has been facing with financial difficulties at present and consequently paying wages for the workers had to be delayed. If the workers worked with the spirit of family members themselves, there would not be any problems, said Mr. Andre.

After that, a consensus was reached between Pusenthi P. Manaim and Mr. Andre Shum that next week the factory owner would invite Pusenthi P. Manim and Ko Harun to visit the factory to check the situation of workers in terms of working and living condition.

At present, Khin Zaw and Kyaw Hlaing Win have already returned to the house which is provided by their employer.

During the case of those workers, Ko Huran and Ko Tun Tun provided necessary financial assistance while workers communicating with the NGO.

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ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား ညွင္းပန္းႏွိပ္ဆက္ခံရမႈအတြက္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမႈ

Khin Zaw and eight others exploited and beaten by employer

Khin Zaw and nine other workers who are currently working at Sweet House Food Industries SDN BHD (620936-K) in Malaysia have been exploited by their employer. All these Burmese workers are holding valid Burmese passports. The following are the names and passport numbers of nine workers.

1. Khin Zaw PP No:A066597
2. Kyaw Hlaing Tun PP No:A089240
3. Myint Oo PP No:A123123
4. Naing Lin PP No:A112441
5. Ngwe Lin PP No:A114081
6. San Lin Maung PP No:A1142443
7. Tun Tun PP No:A112442
8. Aung Win Htut PP No:A123126
9. Hla Saung PP No:A120768
The Burmese workers said that their employer kept their two months wages as deposit money and they are forced to work from 7 am to 2 or 3 am. If the workers arrive at the factory late in the morning, their wages are cut off. There are no days off no break time for the workers and when the workers are fallen asleep during working time, they are beaten by the employer, according to the workers.

Even though the workers tried to compromise with their employer, the employer turn downed their demands. On 8 November 2008, all nine workers didn't go to work and staying at home which has been provided by the employer. The employer arrived at the home on same day, not only denying the demands of the workers, but physically beating the workers. Then, the employer detained the workers in the house and locked it with the new padlock. Later, all nine workers jumped out from the kitchen window and escaped. As soon as they escaped from illegal detention, they went to the Burmese community and asked Ko Harun for some help.

Ko Harun suggested them to inform the police and Khin Zaw went to the local police station by 1:30 pm and opened the case. (Police official paper for opening the case is attached) By 4:30 pm, police officers accompanied with Khin Zaw went to the house and the police took a photo of the padlock and the padlock was cut and taken by the police as evidence. The police officer also took more photos in the house as records. Later, police officers and Khin Zaw went together to the factory to see the employer. Then Khin Zaw was told to go back home and the employer was taken to the police station for further questioning.

However, Khin Zaw and Kyaw Khine Win didn't go back home which is provided by the employer, because they were afraid of possible retaliation by the employer. On the same day, about 10 pm, the employer and worker in-charge came to the house asking where were Khin Zaw and Kyaw Khine Win. The other workers said that they didn't where they were and then they were beaten by the work in-charge. The work in-charge is a Burmese citizen. The work in-charge questioned the names and addresses of those who helped them to go to the police station. But the workers replied they didn't know anything about them and Aung Win Htut was beaten again.

Since 9 November, Khin Zaw and Kyaw Hlaing Htun have been hiding away from the factory. On 10 November, the workers went to see the NGO called TENAGANITA, which is helping for migrant workers. The TENAGANITA accepted the case (case No. MYN/10.11.08/239), however the responsible person from TENAGANITA explained that their lawyers were not ready to travel to the factory at that moment. However, on coming Wednesday, they said that lawyers from TENAGANITA will be going to see the employer and solve the problems within their capacity under given situation.

For further information, please contact:
Ko Htun Htun, mobile:016 2980784
e.mail: wnyunt@hotmail.com
Ko Harron, mobile: 016 6075144
e.mail: koharun@yahoo.com

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