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Reprieve From The 80:20 Local Foreign Ruling

Dr Niaz Asadullah, Southeast Asia Lead at the Global Labor Organisation, Professor of Economics at Monash University Malaysia

19-Jul-22 07:15

Reprieve From The 80:20 Local Foreign Ruling

With the government agreeing to defer implementing the condition that at least 80% of the workforce in manufacturing companies must be Malaysians, before they are allowed to employ foreign workers by two years, we ask Dr Niaz Asadullah if this reprieve is much needed.

Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Philip See, Wong Shou Ning, Shazana Mokhtar


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Categories:  governmentthe workplacemanaging

Tags:  malaysia labour forcemanufacturing industryforeign labour





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