Cambodia bans citizens from working as maids in Malaysia

Cambodias Community Legal Education Centre pronounced there had been reports of 3 maids killed in Malaysia. hsantanacleaning.com pic

PHNOM PENH, Oct 14 Cambodia has banned a adults from starting to work in Malaysia as maids, a budding apportion pronounced today, following a series of horrific reports of beatings as well as rapes.

The order follows a similar ban imposed by Indonesia upon a adults from receiving new jobs as made at home workers in Malaysia, where maids have been usual in middle-class households, interjection in partial to a vast displaced person work pool.

I would similar to to honour a budding apportion for a suspension, Cambodia antithesis lawmaker Mu Sochua of a Sam Rainsy Party told Reuters after a preference by Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Cambodias Community Legal Education Centre, which is operative with abused made at home workers, pronounced there had been reports of 3 maids who were killed in Malaysia, as well as dual were raped as well as kept in isolation, their passports held from them.

Indonesia banned a adults from operative as maids in Malaysia in 2009 after multiform highly publicised cases of earthy abuse by Malaysian employers, which triggered anti-Malaysia demonstrations in Jakarta.

Both countries held discussions as well as reached an agreement in April this year after Malaysia pledged to urge operative conditions, though Indonesia has nonetheless to concede hiring to resume, getting worse a growing necessity of made at home helpers in a country.

Malaysia is dependent upon displaced person workers who sum up to dual million people or twenty-one per cent of a countrys workforce. Indonesia is a categorical source of unfamiliar work in Malaysia. One in every sixteen residents in Malaysias capital hires an Indonesian helper, according to data from a Indonesian Embassy.

An Bunhak, boss of a Association of Cambodian R! ecruitin g Agencies, pronounced it would defend a order from a supervision to stop promulgation people to work as maids in Malaysia.

The Ministry of Labour is enforcing what a budding apportion has said, An Bunhak said, adding which about 50,000 maids have sought work in Malaysia since 2009.

Cambodian recruitment agencies also this year motionless not to send maids to Kuwait after complaints by human rights groups of abuse by employers there. Reuters