Brightway denies its workers are living in shipping containers

ReutersPublished: Dec 21, 2020 3:29 PM

A glovemaker company has denied hundreds of its workers are living in metal shipping containers in squalid conditions that the Human Resources minister described as modern slavery.

Ministry officials today conducted a raid on a glove-making factory in Kajang district, where they found workers living in cramped, dirty shipping containers stacked behind the premises, reports by broadcaster Astro Awani and news portal Free Malaysia Today said...

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