Work & wages

View the legal profession not just as "a job" but as a "ministry", "it is a calling from God," Archbishop Nicholas Chia told the crowd who gathered at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd for the annual "Red Mass".

More than 100 Catholic legal professionals and law students, including members of the Catholic Lawyers Guild (CLG), attended the special Mass on Jan 5 to pray for blessings at the start of the new legal year. Read more »

For the many Malaysians who depend on foreign domestic workers, it is good news that the 28-month ban barring new Indonesian domestic workers from taking up employment here has been lifted.

Malaysian households now employ over 230,000 domestic workers, 90 percent of whom are from Indonesia. The domestic workers care for children and elderly, and do various domestic chores that most Malaysians are no longer willing to do. Read more »