A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.

Malaysia is one of East Asia's greatest economic success stories. As the New Fxonomic Policy took shape, labour costs rose dramatically. The government eventually legalized the importation of foreign workers for the manufacturing, construction and service sectors. However, the vulnerable foreig...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Asrulna'im, Nusa, Ahmad, Mohamad Nazuir, Noriana
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Law 2009
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spelling uitm-284652020-02-25T07:24:35Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28465/ A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir. Abdullah, Asrulna'im Nusa, Ahmad Mohamad Nazuir, Noriana Construction contracts Malaysia is one of East Asia's greatest economic success stories. As the New Fxonomic Policy took shape, labour costs rose dramatically. The government eventually legalized the importation of foreign workers for the manufacturing, construction and service sectors. However, the vulnerable foreign workers are being deprived of their basic rights due to the lack of implementation of law which governs their rights. The scope of this study focuses on the Indonesian workers in the construction sector. This paper analyses and evaluates the current laws relating to the hiring of such foreign workers, the terms of their employment contracts and the safeguards provided in relation to their basic rights. Instances relating to the various deprivations of their basic human rights are highlighted. The objectives are to determine how the rights granted by Malaysian law to Indonesian construction workers can be better implemented and to provide awareness to both employer and employee. The approach adopted in this paper is based on a qualitative research approach and mainly library based. Faculty of Law 2009 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28465/1/28465.pdf Abdullah, Asrulna'im and Nusa, Ahmad and Mohamad Nazuir, Noriana (2009) A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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Abdullah, Asrulna'im
Nusa, Ahmad
Mohamad Nazuir, Noriana
A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.
description Malaysia is one of East Asia's greatest economic success stories. As the New Fxonomic Policy took shape, labour costs rose dramatically. The government eventually legalized the importation of foreign workers for the manufacturing, construction and service sectors. However, the vulnerable foreign workers are being deprived of their basic rights due to the lack of implementation of law which governs their rights. The scope of this study focuses on the Indonesian workers in the construction sector. This paper analyses and evaluates the current laws relating to the hiring of such foreign workers, the terms of their employment contracts and the safeguards provided in relation to their basic rights. Instances relating to the various deprivations of their basic human rights are highlighted. The objectives are to determine how the rights granted by Malaysian law to Indonesian construction workers can be better implemented and to provide awareness to both employer and employee. The approach adopted in this paper is based on a qualitative research approach and mainly library based.
format Student Project
author Abdullah, Asrulna'im
Nusa, Ahmad
Mohamad Nazuir, Noriana
author_facet Abdullah, Asrulna'im
Nusa, Ahmad
Mohamad Nazuir, Noriana
author_sort Abdullah, Asrulna'im
title A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.
title_short A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.
title_full A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.
title_fullStr A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.
title_full_unstemmed A study on the legal rights of Indonesian workers in the Construction sector / Asrulna'im Abdullah, Ahmad Nusa and Noriana Mohamad Nazuir.
title_sort study on the legal rights of indonesian workers in the construction sector / asrulna'im abdullah, ahmad nusa and noriana mohamad nazuir.
publisher Faculty of Law
publishDate 2009
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28465/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28465/1/28465.pdf
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