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Malaysia – Migrant workers win Goodyear legal battle (France24)

14 June 2021

Dozens of foreign workers in Malaysia have won a legal battle against US-based tyre giant Goodyear for underpaying them, reports France24. Sixty-five migrants from Myanmar, Nepal and India working at a Goodyear plant in central Selangor state lodged a case at the country's industrial tribunal, lawyer R. Chandra Segaran said. They accused the company of not complying with a collective labour agreement by failing to give them shift allowances, bonuses and pay rises, the lawyer said. The losses they suffered amounted to about MYR 2 million  (USD 486,000) over several years. The company argued the migrants were not covered by the agreement but the tribunal ruled in the workers' favour on Wednesday, and ordered Goodyear to pay them back. The tribunal previously ruled against Goodyear in similar cases involving 119 migrant workers, but the company is appealing.