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BANTING: The country’s image has been tarnished following the issuance of Top Glove that faces the latest import ban from the United States Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on all its disposable gloves, the resources minister said today humans, M Saravanan.
This follows CBP, on Monday, which ordered personnel at all ports of entry to seize disposable gloves produced by Top Glove because the company is believed to be using forced labor.
“If they are innocent, they should not be punished. Top Glove still has room to appeal to CBP.
“I will not commit to any company that abuses its workers,” he told the media after attending a meeting with Sime Darby Plantation Bhd workers here.
He said that when our country was colonized by the British, the Indian community that became a worker was never persecuted.
Meanwhile, his ministry, in a statement issued in conjunction with the meeting, said that it also held a dialogue session with plantation workers to explain about the workers’ housing project under the Skim Khas Pembiayaan Rumah Pekerja Estet (SKRE) .
He said that SKRE was a government initiative in the form of a revolving fund specifically awarded to all eligible plantation workers by offering a soft loan service with the lowest interest rate of 2%, which can be applied for through the Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN).
SKRE’s goal is to address the problem of home ownership among plantation workers and also aims to help homeless workers in the event of changes in plantation management or if a plantation is sold for the developing.
The scheme is also one of the efforts to attract and retain local workers to continue working in the plantation sector and reducing dependence on foreign labor.
