The government will be launching the Illegal Immigrant Recalibration Plan encompassing two main components:
a) Return Recalibration Programme and
b) Labour Recalibration Programme (rehiring program / legalisation program)
which would be implemented from Nov 16 2020 to June 30 2021 Dec 31 2021 for illegal immigrants who are in the country.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said the Return Recalibration Programme allows illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin voluntarily, subject to specific stipulated conditions.
The Labour Recalibration Programme regularises illegal immigrants in the country as foreign workers who could be employed by eligible employers subject to stringent conditions determined by the government through the Immigration Department and the Peninsular Malaysia Labour Department (JTKSM), he said.
“We are still freezing new foreign workers to Malaysia and it is still going on.
“The plan is for illegal immigrants in the country who wish to work legally and for those who want to return to their countries of origin to do so. We are giving a period up to June 30,” he said when launching the Illegal Immigrant Recalibration Plan at the Home Ministry here today.
Hamzah said the plan would be implemented by the Immigrant Department with the strategic cooperation of JTKSM as well as other government agencies without involving vendor or third party.
Through this plan, Hamzah said the government is expected to collect RM95 million from compounds and other payments imposed on illegal immigrants and employers.
“In the uncertain economic landscape due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the government would be carrying out strategic assessment on the plan by evaluating the positive and negative effects of its implementation,” he said.
Due consideration would also be given from the aspect of data distribution as well as demography of illegal immigrants in Malaysia for comprehensive enforcement as outlined in the Holistic Plan on Enforcement Against Illegal Immigrant introduced since early this year.
“The data collection of illegal immigrants would be coordinated via information submitted by illegal immigrants and employers during the programme registration,” he said.
Hamzah also gave assurance that the manpower programme offer for illegal immigrants who are in Malaysia would not threaten the market or job opportunities for locals.
“Employment opportunities for local workers are assured subject to the policy on ration of local worker to foreign worker in effect now,” he said and added that the government gives priority to local workers to fill workforce vacancies in all sectors of the economy.
Hamzah said the four sectors namely construction, manufacturing, plantation and agriculture are allowed to employ illegal immigrants during the implementation Illegal immigrant Recalibration Plan.
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The following service sub-sector are open for recalibration registration as well.
1) Restaurant
2) Cleaning Services
3) Wholesales & Retails
4) Cargo Services
“For the time being, only employers operating in the four sectors called 3D — dangerous, difficult and dirty are allowed to take in illegal immigrants as workers,” he said, adding that the plan is only for illegal immigrants from 15 countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Hamzah said an Illegal immigrant Recalibration Plan Implementation Steering Committee headed by Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz has been set up.
The committee comprises members of various agencies such as the Human Resource Ministry (MOHR), Immigration Department, JTKSM as well as several other related agencies with the role to monitor and regulate the implementation of the Illegal Immigrant Recalibration Plan.
A Special Committee jointly chaired by the Home Minister and Human Resource Minister to discuss foreign worker affairs will meet every three months, he said.
The minister-level Special Committee would also discuss the need to expand the Illegal Immigrant Recalibration Plan to other sectors as well as the policy on expatriates. The first meeting of the committee is scheduled on Dec 3, 2020, he said.
The Home Ministry and MOHR agreed to integrate and share data to manage the affairs of foreign workers including standardising salaries through a joint e-wages system and the matter would be discussed in the ministerial special committee in future, he said.
“Employers should take the opportunity of the plan implementation to register existing illegal immigrants in the country as manpower resources in all sectors of the economy involved,” said Hamzah.
Also present was Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri M Saravanan and Immigration Department director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud.
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Employers are allowed to rehire foreign workers who were retrenched earlier, but Malaysian workers must be given priority to fill job vacancies.
Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said foreign workers could be re-employed in sectors which have not received encouraging response from local workers.
However, the re-employment of foreign workers is subject to certain conditions.
“Only foreign workers who are still in Malaysia, with valid work permits can be re-employed, in the same sector that they had worked previously,” Saravanan said in a statement today.
Employers should also ensure that the foreign workers who they wish to rehire have undergone Covid-19 screening, he said.
He also reiterated figures of retrenched workers in the same statement.
He said as of July this year, the Human Resource Ministry revealed that 67,068 local workers and 4,753 foreign workers have been laid off.
On June 22, Saravanan announced the ministry’s decision to freeze foreign workers’ intake until the end of this year to increase employment opportunities for locals.
However, several private employment agencies responded to that announcement by urging the ministry to review the decision.
Malaysia Foreign Workers Rehiring is launching soon started from 16 November 2020, please fill up the form below and we will notify you when the program is available. You have missed 6P program in 2011 and rehiring program in 2014, this could be your last time to legalised your foreign workers. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said the Return Recalibration Programme allows illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin voluntarily, subject to specific stipulated conditions.
