PUTRAJAYA: Police conducting roadblock checks must allow workers who produce travel approval letters or employment passes to continue their journey to their offices.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that the documents are sufficient for non-management and supervisory staff to be at work in zones under the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO).
He said those issued with the documents have been allowed to be at work by their respective employers.
"I believe we did not give any (specific) list to the police on who can go to work or otherwise.
"The letters and work passes are valid (travel documents), hence they should be allowed to travel to the office," he said during his daily press conference today.
Ismail Sabri was responding to a question based on a report that some office workers with valid passes, while at roadblocks, have been told to go home.
A circular by the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) specified that a maximum 10 per cent of workers in the management and supervisory capacities of companies and organisations can work in offices for several hours per day.
It was reported that about one million workers in the two sectors in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor, Labuan and Sabah are affected by the order.
Those affected include some 800,000 workers in the industrial sector; and 200,000 civil servants in the federal territories and states under the CMCO.
The work-from-home order is being implemented to stem the surge in Covid-19 cases.