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PETALING JAYA: With an application freeze on the number of ­foreign workers in the sectors concerned, business groups are making a fervent appeal for the government not to shut them out and to consider the merits of each case.

PETALING JAYA: With an application freeze on the number of foreign workers in the sectors concerned, business groups are making a fervent appeal for the government not to shut them out and to consider the merits of each case.

“For example, an employer may have applied for 100 foreign workers who will only arrive in perhaps four or five batches. “Unlike big companies, they usually apply for a small number of foreign workers and usually face hitches with documentation. The relaxed preconditions include bypassing a requirement for employers to prioritise local workers – by advertising available vacancies on the Human Resource Ministry’s dedicated portal; employers can hire foreign workers from 15 source countries without going through employment and quota eligibility preconditions.

In his response, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Datuk Ng Yih Pyng said there should not be a “fixed rule” for all sectors.

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