KOTA KINABALU, Nov. 19 -- Around 1,000 gig workers and youths gathered in Tanjung Aru for a brief engagement session with Human Resources Minister Steven Sim Chee Keong and Pakatan Harapan's Tanjung Aru candidate Datuk Chan Foong Hin.

The session offered first-hand insight into the challenges faced by gig workers in Sabah and their hopes for a more secure future in the workforce.

Sim said a new law was recently passed in Parliament to officially recognise gig workers as employees from a legal standpoint.

"Through this recognition, they will receive automatic basic protection, including social security, reasonable work standards and a clearer platform for lodging complaints," he said.

He noted that Sabah alone has an estimated 100,000 ...