An estimated 30 thousand to 40 thousand workers from Bangladesh, India, Indonesian, Myanmar and Nepal make up the majority of the gloves industry’s workforce. These workers paid extortionate recruitment fees and related costs, up to US$5,000 per worker, for their challenging and unrewarding jobs.
This money expended by impoverished foreign workers allegedly lined the pockets of corrupt officials in Malaysia and overseas, Malaysian and origin country recruitment agencies or intermediaries, and was also purportedly shared with the human resources department or management of glove companies. Recruitment for work in Malaysian gloves companies has always depended on origin country recruitment agencies ability to pay the