Malaysia Foreign Worker Policy 2020
A foreign worker is pictured outside his shared house in kuala lumpur september 13 2020.
Malaysia foreign worker policy 2020. The recruitment of foreign workers can be based on a local to foreign ratio as practised in singapore. Workers from bangladesh india and china look out of their balconies at punggol s 11 workers dormitory in singapore on april 6. We will not allow new foreign workers until year end.
These documents also help in tracking any breach of the employment contract of a legally employed foreign employee in the country. Another way by which malaysia seeks to protect its foreign workers is by granting them legal documents so as to prevent human trafficking. Home minister tan sri muhyiddin yassin who chaired the meeting alongside human resources minister m.
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. Kuala lumpur july 29. Employment of foreign workers must involve those still in the country and still have a valid work permit as well as in the same employment sector.
Human resources minister datuk seri m. Picture by yusof mat isa. Singapore will quarantine fewer migrant.
Foreign worker compensation scheme insurance insurance policy of health insurance protection scheme foreign workers spikpa except for plantation sector foreign workers must remain in their respective countries while pending vdr approval from malaysia immigration department. Saravanan said priority will be given to locals to fill up job vacancies. This means if you have 30 local workers and if the ratio is 60 40 then you can hire only.
Malaysia s human resources ministry announced monday that there will be no new intake of foreign workers in all sectors until the end of the year. This was announced by a joint committee meeting between malaysia s human resources ministry and home ministry in putrajaya yesterday 28 february bernama reported. Putrajaya sept 17 the home ministry kdn today stressed that it had never issued any approval of appointment to any companies to manage foreign workers.
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. A new multi tier levy system for foreign workers in malaysia will take effect in malaysia on 1 january 2020. 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.