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Private companies need not be expected to set up daycare centres

Jul 26, 2018

Don't expect private employers to set up daycare centres for their employees' children.

Malaysian Employers Federation President, Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan says it's not cost-effective for companies to set up such facilities at their premises.

Instead, he suggests that the government work with the private sector to set up neighbourhood daycare centres. 

He was responding to an announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister, that it will be mandatory for all government departments to have daycare centres by 2019, specially for those who have shift workers. 

That itself is in response to the deaths of a number of babies at the hands of babysitters.

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The most high-profile case involved baby boy Adam Rayqal, who was found dead in his nanny's fridge near Batu Caves recently.