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PUTRAJAYA: The proposal to allow large companies to bear the costs of deporting illegal immigrants in immigration detention warehouses will soon be presented to the cabinet, Interior Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said.
He said that in return, companies would receive a new quota for the employment of foreign workers through strict control according to Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Hamzah said the proposal would be considered to help industry players get their quota of foreign workers faster.
“Let’s say there are 20,000 (illegal immigrants) in the warehouses, only about 15 percent can work, others have problems that we don’t allow them to go back to work, so we should send them back.
“If the big companies want them (foreign workers) fast, they can take that one, send them back and we allow the replacement with a one-to-one ratio,” he told reporters after a meeting with Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri. M. Saravanan, in foreign worker management here today.
Meanwhile, Hamzah said the Home Office would review the expatriate recruitment policy in strategic collaboration with TalentCorp and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC).
He said that the latest study on the policy was conducted on December 20, 2016 and that improvement was needed to ensure a balance in meeting human resource needs by prioritizing local labor over foreign labor, especially after of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to Hamzah, the meeting also agreed that the hiring of foreign workers as goldsmiths would be considered under the Professional Visit Pass (PVP) in an effort to encourage the training of local goldsmiths.
“The service of these foreign goldsmiths is no longer necessary once the number of local goldsmiths is sufficient to cover the needs of the industry,” he said. – Called
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