August 29, 2006
The outsourcing controversy rears its head in Malaysia
In almost every country, human rights are a major concern, and the guardians of civil rights are ever ready to take to task any violation of individual rights. Look at the outsourcing scenario in Malaysia, for instance. No sooner had the Malaysian government announced its policy of using outsourcing companies to recruit Bangladeshi workers, two human rights organizations—Malaysia-based Tenaganita and the Philippines-based Migrant Forum Asia—were up in arms against the statement.
Both these organizations believe that the Malaysian policy will institutionalize and legalize human trafficking and bonded labor, charges that could prove too hot for the Malaysian government to handle.
But it is not only the policy that is under attack. Both Tenaganita and Migrant Forum Asia have also made scathing remarks against the outsourcing companies, labeling them as arrogant and exploitative enterprises that hold the workers to unjust contracts and treat them as bonded labor. It remains to be seen if the Malaysian government can work its way through this opposition and arrive at a consensus—an unlikely result in the present scenario where both parties are at loggerheads.
For more information on the impasse, click here.
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