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SINGAPORE, Sept 5 — Some of the manpower ministry’s new workplace safety measures, especially a ban on errant firms hiring foreign workers for up to three months, will be...

GIVEN the issues related to getting foreign labour from Bangladesh and Indonesia, workers from India and Pakistan may be the short-term solution for the plantation industry, which has been severely hit by a manpower crunch.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin today said that automation and mechanisation of the plantation industry are already...

IPOH, July 30 — DAP national chairman Lim Guan Eng today urged Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri S. Saravanan to simplify procedures for foreign labour intake that are...

KOTA KINABALU: Companies in Sabah facing hiring difficulties have been urged to give former convicts and parolees a chance to fill the vacancies as a way to reduce dependency on foreign labour.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — Harvesting of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) in the oil palm industry is still impacted by the slow entry of foreign labour which has not fully recovered...

KUALA LUMPUR: Employers are urged to consider hiring foreign workers from approved source countries and not merely rely on traditional source nations alone as part of efforts to address the shortage of foreign labour.

GEORGE TOWN: The latest move by the government to allow three industries - manufacturing, construction and services - to hire foreign workers from 15 countries will be able to solve the foreign labour shortage even if it means being more costly, say industry players.

KUALA LUMPUR: Three industries - construction, manufacturing and service - would be allowed to hire foreign workers from all 15 source countries.

KOTA KINABALU: Putrajaya must manage relations with Indonesia in order to resolve the foreign labour shortage in the country, says Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal.