Glove firm’s ‘Covid-19 Heroes’ scheme 'underpays' workers who toil 7 days a week

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CORONAVIRUS | Glove manufacturer Top Glove is “unethically” skirting labour laws by launching a scheme to get workers to work seven days a week on a “voluntary basis”, for a sum much lower than the standard wage, labour activists believe. The “Heroes for Covid-19” scheme set up earlier this month encouraged workers to spend up to four hours on their off days packing rubber gloves. This is to meet the surging demand from medical workers and other frontliners worldwide in the face of the pandemic. For the low-paid factory workers, this means sacrificing their only off day of the week. By right, employers must pay 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for off-day work. For Top Glove’s foreign factory workers, this would amount to RM11.54 per hour. However, workers who participated in the “Heroes for Covid-19” scheme told Malaysiakini they were only paid RM32 for a four-hour day, or RM8 per…