Govt to review recruitment fees, agreements after US trafficking report

The government will examine recruitment fees charged to workers and review its agreements with the home countries of migrant workers, the Human Resources Ministry said, after the country was downgraded in a US human trafficking report.

The US State Department last week ranked Malaysia in Tier 3 in this year's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and said forced labour is the predominant human trafficking crime in the country...