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PETALING JAYA: Top Glove Corp Bhd has confirmed that it will refund its retroactive hiring fees to its foreign workers.
“Top Glove is pleased to affirm its commitment to remedy its migrant workers with respect to recruitment fees previously paid by migrant workers to agents or other parties,” it said in a statement.
The glove maker said the remediation will be based on the revised sum of approximately RM136 million, in accordance with the recommendations of an independent consultant, following the completion of the independent consultant’s comprehensive verification work.
“Migrant workers will receive remediation for the next 10 months starting in October 2020,” he said, adding that the company had made the first two remediation payments in August and September this year.
The company was believed to have made an initial payment of 4.4 million ringgit in August.
He tried to ensure that all necessary information had been submitted to the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and that the company had also been closely following with them for resolution. issue and revocation of the Release Withholding Order (WRO).
Earlier, the Los Angeles Times reported that Top Glove, the world’s largest glove maker, recently distributed letters to employees stating that it would pay Nepalese workers about US $ 1,500 (RM6,247) and Bangladeshi workers about US $ 4,800 (RM19,989) to cover the fees paid to recruitment agencies.
The newspaper said his report was based on letters he had seen.
Payments to the company’s 10,000 foreign workers would total about US $ 40 million (RM166.58 million), roughly three and a half times more than what the company initially promised, according to the report.
