KUALA LUMPUR: Employers should not be faulted when individual workers request to work overtime on their own accord.
“In fact, there are some (private workers) who do not want to come here to work if their request for overtime is not met,” said Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Shamsuddin Bardan when commenting on the number of Nepal workers who have died of heart attacks.
Nepal Ambassador to Malaysia Dr Niranjan Man Singh Basnyat was reported as saying that 70% of the 461 deaths of Nepal workers in Malaysia last year was due to heart attacks, suffered while sleeping, and likely attributed to their long working hours.
– BERNAMA