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New Year, New Rules For Foreign Labour

Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan, Executive Director, Malaysian Employers Federation

05-Feb-24 08:30

New Year, New Rules For Foreign Labour

Malaysian employers are set to face new conditions regarding the foreign labour on their payrolls. These include increased the frequency and fees for their mandatory medical examinations, as well as having to house them in centralised living quarters. Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan, Executive Director of the Malaysian Employers Federation shares his views.

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Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Keith Kam


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Categories:  economy,  Law/Activism

Tags:  medical examinations,  centralised labour quarters,  foreign workers,  Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), 


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