A Malaysian factory that makes moulds for Australian glove-maker Ansell has fired migrant workers amid claims of human rights abuses, causing some of them to be deported to Bangladesh.

In a September complaint lodged with the Australian Treasury, which runs a mechanism designed to resolve overseas labour disputes involving Australian companies, activist Andy Hall accused factory operator MediCeram of seriously abusing the rights of more than 200 Bangladeshi workers at the company.

The alleged abuses, which were vehemently denied by MediCeram, included wage theft, forced labour, confiscation of passports and the deportation of more than 30 workers who complained to management…

Ansell, which had been supporting the remediation program, suspended MediCeram as a supplier and publicly expressed its unhappiness with the company.

Ansell has also faced questions both in public at its annual shareholder meeting and behind closed doors from large institutional shareholders.

The ABC can reveal that institutional investor Allan Gray, a company that owns about 15 per cent of Ansell, has been in close contact with the company over the issue.

The first 10 deported Bangladeshi workers arrived home in the country's capital of Dhaka in front of cameras from at least two TV networks on November 5…