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14 Apr

Malaysia Food Operators Associations Want Govt To Reconsider Freeze On New Foreign Workers Intake

Five main food operator associations in the country have urged the Malaysia government to reconsider its decision to freeze the recruitment of new foreign workers. Malaysia Singapore Coffee Shop Proprietors’ General Association president Ho Su Mong said food operators would be badly affected by the decision, with many of them forced to close their shop early due to lack of workers.

Food operators associations want govt to reconsider freeze on new foreign workers Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/138985/food-operators-associations-want-govt-reconsider-freeze-new-foreign-workers

Malaysia Singapore Coffee Shop Proprietors’ General Association president Ho Su Mong said food operators would be badly affected by the decision, with many of them forced to close their shop early due to lack of workers.

He claimed that 5,000 foreign workers would leave the country by June 30 and most of them would not return.

“Many restaurants may shorten their operating hours as they are depending on foreign workers.

“ln Sabah alone, about 2,000 restaurants will have to operate on a half-day basis due to the problem,” he said after holding a meeting with the representatives of the main associations here today.

The other associations were Malaysian Indian Restaurant Owners Association (Primas), Malaysian Muslim Restaurant Owners Association, Perak Sundry Shop Guild and Malaysia Hawkers and Petty Traders Association.

Primas president T. Muthusamy said the government’s decision insisting only foreigners who were already in the country should be employed was not practical.

“Many of the illegal immigrants are not willing to come out and register for work,” he said adding that the associations had sent a memorandum on the issue to Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi recently.

On March 12, Zahid announced employers were no longer allowed to take in new foreign workers and they should instead make do with those already in the country.

Zahid was quoted as saying that employers could take advantage of the rehiring programme as it would allow them to recruit workers from the existing pool of about two million illegal foreign workers in the country who did not come under official statistics of foreign labour.

News source: NST Online

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04 Apr

Furniture Industry Hit By Malaysia Foreign Worker Freeze

The serious shortage of labour in Malaysia has caused 14 furniture manufacturers in Johor to close shop lately. According to Malaysian Furniture Council president Chua Chun Chai, the furniture industry in the peninsula is facing a shortfall of some 35,000 workers, Sin Chew Daily reported today.

johor malaysia furtniture manufacturer

Picture source: Oriental Daily

Commenting on the message, “Stop recruitment of foreign workers = end of the industry”, on the banner unfurled by about 300 furniture makers and workers in Bakri, Muar, over the weekend to protest the government’s freeze on the hiring of foreign workers, Chua said such an end result was only natural.

Speaking to the daily on Sunday, Chua said the foreign worker recruitment freeze had dealt a heavy blow to the foreign labour-intensive industry.

The hardest-hit states are Johor, Selangor and Penang which together produce 95% of the total furniture the country exports, he said, adding that the biggest markets for Malaysian furniture are the US, Japan, China, Australia, the UK, India and United Arab Emirates.

“Last year, Malaysia’s furniture export hit RM9 billion, which was 14.1% more than the 2014 figure.

“If not for the freeze on recruitment of foreign workers, we were looking at breaching the RM10 billion mark this year. But with a shortage of labour we are facing, the export is expected to shrink greatly.

“As such, the council is appealing to both the prime minister and deputy prime minister to look into our predicament seriously,” he said.

The government should not only lift the freeze, but also allow furniture makers to hire Bangladeshi workers as they are known to be more hardworking and are willing to work longer term than their peers from Nepal and Cambodia, said Chua.

中文: 解决劳工短缺问题逾500业者促政府开放引进外劳

News Source: The Sun Daily

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