Workers on unpaid leave fret about making ends meet


Shoppers buying vegetables at Mount Erskine market in George Town, Penang during the first day of movement control order (MCO). /Picby:CHAN BOON KAI/The Star/ 18 March 2020.

KOTA KINABALU: Many workers forced to take unpaid leave because of the movement control order (MCO) until March 31 are banking on the RM600 special assistance announced by the government.

A salesgirl, who works at a shop in 1Borneo Hypermall, said she and her 11 colleagues were told to take unpaid leave following the MCO.

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