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PETALING JAYA: Calling for more effective monitoring of glove manufacturers’ adherence to Covid-19 SOPs, Petaling Jaya MP Maria Chin Abdullah expressed shock that a factory had only been fined RM1,000 when ordinary people had been fined RM8,000.
Noting that authorities had fined a Port Klang glove factory a meager RM1,000 for violating standard health operating procedures following a raid on Thursday, he added: “Other ordinary citizens are known to have been fined up to RM8. .000.
“It is also worrying to know that corporations, regardless of their size, violate SOPs and have little regard for the health and safety of their workers.
“The fine for violators was intended to be a deterrent and it is important to classify it according to the severity of the offense, and according to the law, it could reach up to 10,000 ringgit.”
In a statement today, Maria said recent instances of SOP non-compliance at various glove companies should be a severe lesson for companies to improve the way they care for their workers.
“We now have the opportunity to rebuild a more equitable and inclusive workplace and healthy workers that will strengthen corporate organizations well beyond Covid-19,” he said.
He noted that a glove maker in Kajang was forced to shut down for seven days for failing to comply with Covid-19 preventive measures earlier this week when 781 workers were discovered living behind the factory in two blocks of shipping containers. stacked three stories high. .
Last month, the Labor Department discovered that a glove manufacturing company in Chemor, Perak, had also violated the Minimum Standards of Housing and Services Act after it failed to request a letter of recognition of accommodation from the authorities, with the their workers’ homes described as overcrowded and in unsanitary conditions.
María also pointed out that two other glove manufacturers, Kossan Rubber Industries and Top Glove, have registered more than 7,000 cases of Covid-19 between them.
Kossan said this week that 990 cases of Covid-19 have been detected at one of its plants in Klang since intensive screening began on December 4.
The country’s largest group, the Teratai group, is linked to Top Glove workers in Meru, Klang, where 28 of its factories were forced to temporarily halt operations due to the growing number of Covid-19 cases. Today a total of 25 new cases were registered in the group. It has a total of 6,042 cases.
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