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PETALING JAYA: Despite calls for more foreign workers, the government has yet to make a decision to lift the freeze on new applications, says Deputy Human Resource Minister Mustapha Sakmud.

Silicon Valley's biggest tech corporations continue hiring foreign workers through the H-1B visa program, even as they carry out mass layoffs.

MELAKA: An eight-door workers’ dormitory measuring 3,962m was destroyed in a fire at a construction site here.

PETALING JAYA: With many foreign workers having arrived to fill vacancies in the service sector, “extra hands” which have been helping out at restaurants are now out of a job.

Workers’ groups from sectors said to be target of new scheme, such as construction, aviation and transport, renew opposition ahead of decision by authorities.

Singapore News - A 45-year-old Chinese migrant worker died in hospital after he was knocked down by a lorry while riding a bicycle along Pioneer Road on May 15. Liu Jie, who worked as a technician in a hydraulic engineering company, was riding a bicycle along Kian Teck Drive at around 11am... Read more at www.tnp.sg

The number of foreign nationals holding U.S. jobs has hit the highest level since the Labor Department began tracking the data in 1996.

SINGAPORE: Living conditions in migrant worker dormitories are better now than before the pandemic, with more space in rooms and cleaner facilities, said workers. But some of them told CNA that communal kitchens and toilets can still get dirty, especially over w

Under the plan, the government will increase the number of sectors able to grant foreign workers a special status that effectively grants them permanent residency.

PETALING JAYA: The government has been urged to implement the recommendations by the Independent Committee on the Management of Foreign Workers in order to stop corrupt practices in foreign worker recruitment.