"Employees wearing hijab at hotels shouldn't be a problem: MAH", 3 February 2018

It shouldn't be a problem if hotel employees want to wear hijab or tudung at their workplace as long as it doesn't compromise the service to the customer, said Kedah-Perlis Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) chairman Eugene Dass.

He however said that associations cannot impose or instruct hotels on whether their employees can wear hijab or not.

He however added that if there are hotels imposing on their employees due to their in house regulations, it might be because they are international hotels that might be follow their old way of doing things.

…It was reported that the Human Resources Ministry found that 13 out of 88 hotels in Peninsular Malaysia have denied women from wearing the hijab….

Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot of the Manpower Department has advised the said hotels to rectify the matter and lift the ban.