51 staff, labour teams want Covid-19 recognised as occupational sickness underneath Malaysian legislation | Malaysia
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 — A group representing 51 distinctive unions
and societies advocating the rights of personnel and labourers are
calling on the federal government to recognise Covid-19 as an
occupational ailment to allow general public guidance in the event of an
infection or worse.
The team, represented by regional spokesperson Charles Hector,
pressured the need to have to amend rules under the Occupational Basic
safety and Overall health Act 1994 and which would allow those impacted
by Covid-19 to be entitled to social defense advantages as considered
fit by the govt.
“We simply call on Malaysia and all businesses to ensure that
occupational safety and health of all workers are always prioritised and
shielded,” browse a assertion issued currently.
It also pushed for legislation persuasive companies to provide secure
doing work environments for their employees, stating it need to
especially implement to individuals functioning in critical expert
services and personnel who are pressured to remain at delivered
accommodation not knowing if their housemates are contaminated.
The assertion exemplified incidents exactly where migrant employees
contracted tuberculosis from their housemates supposedly soon after
staying compelled to remain at an accommodation delivered by their
employers.
“While the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the inadequacies in
occupational safety and well being legal guidelines, and also social
stability regulations for employees, it is time to cure these failings.
“Therefore we simply call on Malaysia to straight away make Covid-19
an occupational sickness, especially if it is contracted at the place of
work, on journey to and from operate, and in worker accommodations
furnished by the employer.
“We simply call on Malaysia to amend all applicable worker social
stability regulation, to assure correct just remedy to workers, their
households and, or, dependents specially in the party of demise, or
incapacity impacting potential potential to get the job done and, or,
make an revenue,” study the assertion.
The group also known as on the authorities to assure employers are
lawfully bound to present a safe ecosystem, which includes basic safety
from infection by using human to human make contact with at the place of
work for health conditions like Covid-19.
Between the noteworthy inclusions among the team of 51 signatories
are the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC), WH4C(Workers Hub For
Alter), MTUC Sarawak, the PKNS Union, Countrywide Union of Flight
Attendants (NUFAM).
Also amid the signatories have been international societies, namely
the Making and Wooden Staff Intercontinental (BWI) Asia Pacific Region,
Myanmar’s Association of Human Legal rights and Defenders and Promoters,
Pakistan’s Marvi Rural Progress Group (MRDO), Asosasyon ng mga
Makabayang Manggagawang Pilipino Abroad in Malaysia (AMMPO-SENTRO), the
European Rohingya Council, and the Network of Action for Migrants in
Malaysia (NAMM). - gotechdaily, 2/4/2020
**See full Joint Statement of now 51 groups at Make COVID-19 an Occupational Disease under Law to ensure social protection for all workers and their families (51 Groups)
- See earlier relevant posts
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Workers groups call for law defining Covid-19 as occupational disease(Malaysiakini)
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