S Tingaran of the Government Contract Workers’ Network (JPKK) claimed that the company, which provides security services to a government hospital in Seremban, has reduced its workers’ wages, limited their break times, and withheld payments for working on public holidays.

“We urge the health ministry to investigate and cancel the company’s contract for mistreating its employees.

“The ministry must thoroughly evaluate who it awards contracts to and only offer contracts to companies with professional and employee-friendly policies,” he told reporters after submitting a memorandum to a representative of the health ministry at its headquarters.

Tingaran said the company’s “inhumane” policies caused stress to its employees, adding that problems at the workplace did not exist before the company was contracted in 2020.

Meanwhile, S Letchumy, a security guard who was laid off in May, said she suffered severe stress to the point of attempting suicide while employed by the company.

She said she and her husband, who was also a security guard at the same hospital, had lodged reports with police and the labour department five times.

“My husband and I were issued termination letters after lodging the reports,” she said, adding that both of them had twice been issued warning letters for lodging complaints to the labour department prior to their termination.

Letchumy hoped the ministry would take their concerns seriously and investigate the company.