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achievement of achievement of
outcome outcome

1.3. Robust forced Conduct baseline mapping exercise 2022 Enhance the current MOHR
labour data to identify what sources of data on Employers Undertaking to cover
collection, analysis forced labour are available from ensuring no Fees are Charged to
and dissemination different stakeholders, and what Workers.
systems are gaps exist in existing data sources.
operational Amend Private Employment National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
Agencies Act to not allow any
charges to be made to migrant
Collect data that are not available as workers.
per mapping and establish a forced
labour database collecting Amend Trade Unions Act to remove
information across different barriers to freedom of association.
authorities and organisations, with
strong respect for privacy and victim
protection and taking into account Strengthen protection of workers on
gender dynamics. their right for peaceful assembly in
airing grievances related to forced
labour.
Develop Government Mechanism to Review and consider adoption of the
collect national statistical database Minimum Wage Order for domestic
on forced labour. workers.
Review and amend policies to allow
Regularly analyse data (from migrant workers to form and
database) to identify trends and register organisations in Malaysia.
possible policy gaps and
recommendations, monitoring and
evaluation of national action plan Develop human-centered strategy
implementation, reporting to address the issue of
commitments under national, undocumented population in Sabah,
international, and regional (for including review of policies and
example ASEAN-level) reporting provision of guidance on
mechanisms. responsibilities of relevant parties
(duty bearers, employers,
employees) in relation to the
legalization of refugees and
Publish or share reports from data stateless workers (and their families)
analysis. in Sabah.
Undertake a gender and age
sensitive analysis of gaps in policies Develop human-centered strategy
National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025) 2 By 2025 there will be 2.1. Relevant laws or Amend relevant provisions of the 2022 system to ensure they have access
and legislation in order to allow
to protect refugees and asylum-
revisions as required. (NAPTIP)
seekers from labour abuses
including forced labour including
setting up refugee management
Employment Act to introduce
improved legal
policies revised to
to remedial mechanisms and
offence regarding forced labour,
address forced
compliance and
services if they experience forced
with strong punishment.
enforcement related to
labour and
labour and related exploitation.
strengthen
forced labour
protection support
Amend policies that tie migrant
(Implementation to be
for all victims of
workers to their employers, and
forced labour
coordinated by the
develop other strategies to prevent
Require all Malaysian agencies to
Technical Committee
abscondment, and address high
register with respective sending
on Law and
recruitment fees paid by employers.
country embassies, to be subjected
Enforcement)
to the strict monitoring of these
embassies in terms of protection of
the migrant workers.