Recruitment agencies in Malaysia have petitioned the Malaysian government to reduce the minimum age for domestic workers from 21 to 18, local media report.
Forty-five companies sent a petition asking Malaysia’s Home and Human Resource ministry to consider lowering the age requirement for the maids, according to the Malaysia Star news website.
Malaysian recruitment agencies are currently experiencing a shortfall in workers after the Indonesian government recently banned workers from traveling to Malaysia due to concerns about possible mistreatment, the paper reported.
Reducing the age limit would allow companies to recruit 10,000 to 15,000 additional maids from Cambodia, it said. [Read full article…]
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