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More than 750,000 Malaysian employees ordered to work from home beginning Thursday

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KUALA LUMPUR: More than 750,000 employees in the Klang Valley, Sabah and Labuan have been ordered to work from home effective Thursday (Oct 22), in line with the conditional movement control order (CMCO) enforced in these areas.

In a statement on Wednesday, Minister for International Trade and Industry Mohamed Azmin Ali explained that the number of employees in the manufacturing, construction and services sector in Sabah, Selangor and federal territories of Labuan, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya totalled 3.1 million.

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Of the total, 25 per cent or 776,135 are in management and supervisory roles.

"Taking the shared responsibility to protect the health of the people and workers, MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) will immediately implement the MKN's (National Security Council) decision for industry players to introduce the work from home policy for management and supervisory staff," Mr Mohamed Azmin said.

This is to reduce the risk of the virus spreading, he added.

READ: Movement restrictions to tighten in Selangor, KL and Putrajaya as cases spike amid third wave of COVID-19

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However, the minister also said in the statement that having taken the industries' needs into consideration, the ministry would allow a maximum 10 per cent of the management staff to work in the office four hours a day and three times a week.

Malaysia's Minister of International Trade and Industry Azmin Ali reacts during a news conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

These employees include those handling, among others, accounting, finance, administration, law, planning and information and communications technology, he explained.

They are allowed to be present in the office from 10am to 2pm.

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Mr Mohamed Azmin added that employers need not make separate applications for this but instead should just furnish the staff with a letter of authorisation.

While Malaysia is now under a recovery movement control order, the aforementioned states and federal territories have been placed under the stricter CMCO following a spike of COVID-19 cases.

READ: 'No total lockdown as yet', says PM Muhyiddin as COVID-19 cases continue to spike

On Tuesday, the MKN announced that employees at management and supervisory levels in areas under CMCO are required to work from home effective Thursday, until further notice.

CIVIL SERVICE TO ALLOW 30% OF STAFF TO WORK IN OFFICE

Meanwhile, Public Services Department director-general Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman said in a statement that each department in the civil service can have up to 30 per cent of their staff working in the office effective Thursday.

"These measures are taken in order to reduce the presence of employees in the affected areas.

"Department chiefs are to ensure only a maximum of 30 per cent of the federal civil service officers are in the office while also making sure that the services provided by the respective agencies are accessible to users," he said, adding that office presence was only applicable to those deemed as essential services by the department chiefs.

Mr Mohd Khairul added that in line with these orders, all face-to-face activities will not be allowed.

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