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MAICCI Proposed To Allow Extension Of Their Foreign Workers |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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PUTRAJAYA, March 26 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MAICCI) has proposed to the government to allow the extension of the permits of about 90,000 of their existing foreign workers in the country.
Its president, Datuk K.K Eswaran, said this was because they were short of workers, which could affect their businesses. |
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Orders coming back but locals not keen to work in Johor factories |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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By ZAZALI MUSA
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JOHOR BARU: Orders are coming back for manufacturers in Johor after almost a two-year hiatus, but a shortage of production workers is making it difficult for some of them to cope with the rising demand.
With locals not really keen to work in factories many companies are forced to hire foreigners.
“We have tried many times to employ locals but without much luck; they only stay for a short while and then leave,” Sanichi Technology Bhd chairman and managing director Datuk Dr Pang Chow Huat told StarBiz. |
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Be fair to local workers, employers told |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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CYBERJAYA: Employers are reminded to be fair to the local workforce by offering “reasonable and attractive” salaries, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
He said that one of the main grouses of workers was unattractive salaries, adding that it was time to change this.
“Local workers should be given pay that is appropriate so that they will want to work. If salaries are too low and jobs have no takers, then employers will pressure the Government to approve (them bringing in) foreign workers. |
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Foreign Workers More Tenacious Than Local Workers, Says Mukhriz |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 |
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PUTRAJAYA - The tenacity of local workers is not at par with foreign workers from neighbouring countries, Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Mukhriz Tun Mahathir said Thursday.
"This is one complaint from industry representatives and it is a matter of concern for us," he told the media after attending his ministry's Outreach Programme with Malaysian Institutions of Higher Learning, here.
"It is a fundamental issue and needs to be tackled so that we can avoid continuing to depend on foreign workers," he said.
Citing a case, he said there had been one factory which had trained close to 1,200 local workers for two weeks but after being offered the jobs, almost 1,000 of them did not turn up. |
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Sacked Myanmar workers' plight: Happily heading home |
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 |
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Labour Department resolves grouses of the shortchanged foreign employees KUALA LUMPUR: The 26 Myanmar workers who claimed to have been duped by their former employer, an upscale restaurant in Starhill Gallery here, finally had their demands met and will get to return home. The Malay Mail learnt that negotiations between the workers and Jogoya Restaurant concluded last Wednesday and matters were settled amicably via intervention by the Federal Territories Labour Department and the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC). |
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