Malaysia Foreign Worker Policy 2020

Kuala lumpur july 29.

Malaysia foreign worker policy 2020. This means if you have 30 local workers and if the ratio is 60 40 then you can hire only. Putrajaya oct 29 the new procedure on hiring and re hiring foreign workers and expatriates which required employers to advertise the vacancies first on the national employment portal myfuturejobs is to facilitate the employment of local talents and to ensure they are. A new multi tier levy system for foreign workers in malaysia will take effect in malaysia on 1 january 2020. In a parliamentary written reply yesterday the ministry of human resources said based on malaysia s immigration department s statistics the manufacturing sector employed the highest number of foreign labour.

The government has decided that only three sectors construction plantation and agriculture will be allowed to employ foreign workers in future to cut the nation s reliance on foreign workers deputy human resources minister awang hashim said other sectors that currently use foreign workers will be required to employ locals instead the government has previously. Employers are advised to ensure that the foreign workers to be hired have undergone covid 19 screenings as a standard operating procedure sop as well as as a measure to prevent the spread of the virus he said in a separate bernama article. Saravanan at a press conference in putrajaya october 28 2020. Human resources minister datuk seri m.

Fmt the government will relook its policy on foreign labour following difficulties encountered by some 2 3 million migrant workers during the movement control order mco. Minister in the prime minister s department economy mustapa mohamed said the number of foreign labours could be control. Home minister tan sri muhyiddin yassin who chaired the meeting alongside human resources minister m. The recruitment of foreign workers can be based on a local to foreign ratio as practised in singapore.

A total of 1 99 million foreign workers in malaysia were registered under the temporary visiting work permit pas lawatan kerja sementara as at aug 31 this year. Kuala lumpur oct 8.