Groups call for Covid-19 to be declared an occupational disease to better protect workers


PETALING JAYA: A group of 51 organisations and trade unions have called on the Malaysian Government to declare Covid-19 an occupational disease under the law to ensure social protection for all workers and their families.

They said that by doing so, workers who are infected by Covid-19 at their workplace, even during this period, will become entitled to social protection accorded by social security schemes and laws.

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