State urged to relax foreign worker recruitment policy
KUCHING: The Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (SOPPOA) has called on the state government to relax its foreign worker recruitment policy. In making the call, its chief executive officer (CEO) of the Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (SOPPOA) Dr Felix Moh Mee Ho said Sarawak’s palm oil industry needed foreign labour urgently. Moh said […]
Only five of 19 Works Ministry projects active in Sarawak
KUALA LUMPUR: Only five of the 19 projects implemented by the Works Ministry in Sarawak are still in active status, said its Deputy Minister Datuk Eddin Syazlee Shith. He said the projects, however, did not include the Sarawak Pan Borneo Highway mega project worth RM16.11 billion. “Of the five projects that are still active, two […]
Foreign labour still needed
KUCHING: The Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (Soppoa) appeals to the Human Resource Ministry to consider allowing the palm oil industry in Sarawak to continue hiring foreign workers during the duration of the year in view of the serious shortage faced by the industry here. They said that Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M […]
Government to relook into reliance on foreign labour
KUALA LUMPUR: The government will take a relook on policy regarding the country’s 2.3 million foreign labours, following various difficulties encountered by the group during the movement control order (MCO) to stop the spread of Covid-19, said the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Economy). Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said the number of foreign labour in the country could be […]
Trim foreign labour
KUCHING: Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) Sarawak is rooting for the government to trim the country’s dependence on foreign labour. Its secretary Andrew Lo described the government’s undecided stance on the issue as exasperating as he stressed that it was glaring and obvious that Malaysia had to trim the number of foreign workers, even before […]
