Malaysia is confined, but gloves factories are open to produce material for different states of the world. Bussiness and Human Rights Resource Centre has denounced that they have working days of twelve hours, with poor working conditions, in which "modern types of slavery" are applied.

The human rights NGO has added that the glove manufacturer must ensure the safety of the people who produce them. Workers fear for non-compliance with safety conditions: 45 colleagues are going to work together on the same bus, the entrance to the workplace is full of people because everyone comes in at once, all the workers use the only scanner that reads fingerprints to open the doors… In total they don’t earn 10 euros a day.

Many factory workers leave Nepal, and those fear that if a Malaysian worker is infected, it will spread to everyone else. Neil Wilkins, of the Institute for Human Rights and Bussins, said that workers must be guaranteed a safety margin and that the government must take priority over the safety and health of workers.

Mafia in the workplace itself

Manufacturers of gloves in Malaysia work in precarious working conditions and pay money to protect themselves from some commercials. Because the amount they pay is pretty high for them, they have no choice but to depend on the commercials. Most of these employees come from neighbouring countries, such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Indonesia.

Andy Hall, an activist for workers' rights, has denounced that the British Government has learned of this and has described the response of the British Executive as "very slow". In fact, according to a study published by The Guardian, in 2018 the two companies that sold the most gloves to the country had migrant workers in precarious working conditions.