Employers must immediately hire foreign workers under RTK programme
Employers have been given two weeks for the placement of 280,088 foreign workers who have registered under the Labour Recalibration Programme (RTK), Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said.
He said the Home Ministry had called on the employers concerned to immediately employ the workers who have registered under the RTK programme and are listed as legal foreign workers...
Employers have been given two weeks for the placement of 280,088 foreign workers who have registered under the Labour Recalibration Programme (RTK), Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said.
He said the Home Ministry had called on the employers concerned to immediately employ the workers who have registered under the RTK programme and are listed as legal foreign workers.
"I want to see that all of them are employed in our country and issued a valid PLKS (Temporary Employment Visit Pass). That's what we want to do," he told the media after launching the Expatriate Services Division (ESD) Satellite Centre (ESC) at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang yesterday.
According to Hamzah, of the 280,088 foreign workers who have registered under the RTK programme, over 120,000 are involved in the plantation sector and the number only represents between 20 and 30 percent of the labour required by the country's plantation sector.
On reports that the government had agreed to allow the entry of 32,000 foreign workers with special exemptions to meet the manpower needs of the plantation sector, especially oil palm, Hamzah said: "To be realistic, 32,000 is not enough for our plantations here, we actually need a much bigger number. "
He also said that although it has been announced that 32,000 foreign workers would be brought in, it has been over a month and not one has arrived.
- Bernama
