Foreign Manpower. Recruitment and employment of foreign workers.

Employers Call For Review Of 5-year Cap Review For Skilled Foreigners

Thursday, 23 July 2009

PETALING JAYA, July 23 (Bernama) -- Employers on Thursday called on the government to review its policy to allow skilled foreigners to work in the country for a maximum of five years because it could be detrimental to local businesses.

The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Shamsuddin Bardan said the nett effect of the policy would be that employers would have to spend a lot of time and money to retrain new workers.

Foreign Workers Can Only Work For Five Years

Friday, 17 July 2009
PUTRAJAYA, July 17 (Bernama) -- Effective immediately, foreign workers in all categories, except for maids, will only be allowed to work in Malaysia for a maximum period of five years, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Friday. After five years, the workers would have to submit a fresh application if they still wanted to work in Malaysia and this would be treated as a new application and would be looked into according to the normal procedure, he said.
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FMM urges govt to review workers levy

Thursday, 16 July 2009
THE Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) has strongly urged the government to review the proposed changes to the levy policy for foreign workers. The FMM also asked that the government defer implementation of the doubling of the foreign workers levy until economic conditions improve.
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Hire retrenched workers first, factories told

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
By SIM LEOI LEOI This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it KUALA LUMPUR: Companies will not be allowed to recruit foreign workers until they re-hire all the local staff they retrenched. Labour director-general Datuk Ismail Abdul Rahim said this practice was actually entrenched in the Government’s Code of Conduct for Industrial Harmony. “The companies should give priority to recalling the workers they retrenched. “These workers can be recruited as new employees and there won’t be any problem retraining them as they already have the skills for it,” he said in an interview here yesterday.
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