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                                <title><![CDATA[ Price revision and staff cuts: Restaurant group warns of flipside of raising minimum wage ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ PM, you're either for the working class or against it ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Former estate workers urge Perak govt to make good on promised housing lots ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ They say the deal was struck in 2008 and should have been fulfilled in 2011. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Amazon faces renewed pressure from UK lawmakers over warehouse conditions ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ At issue is whether Amazon uses tracking technology in its warehouses in Britain primarily to surveil worker productivity – a claim Amazon has repeatedly denied – or to promote worker safety, as the company says. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Labour shortages set up Malaysia for third year of palm oil losses ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The Malaysian Palm Oil Association estimates only 12% of approvals for migrant workers granted to companies across all industry sectors in Malaysia have successfully translated into boots on the ground. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Enforcement of law on shorter working hours pushed to Jan 1 ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Human Resources Minister M Saravanan says engagement sessions with stakeholders found that industry players, especially employers, needed more time before the amendments came into force. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Govt to lift freeze on hiring foreign workers ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ New applications will be processed from Aug 19 onwards while earlier applications will proceed before the end of the month. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ First group of Indonesian workers already in the country, says minister ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ M Saravanan said the first batch of Indonesian workers is already in Malaysia and that papers for another 23,000 workers are being processed. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Hyundai subsidiary used child labour at US factory ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 01:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The revelation of child labour in Hyundai's US supply chain could spark consumer, regulatory and reputational backlash for one of the most powerful and profitable automakers in the world. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ No plans to introduce menstrual leave, says deputy minister ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Siti Zailah Yusoff says there is not much demand for it in the country. ]]></description>
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