Hitting the reset on labour


Foreign worker conundrum: The pandemic has thrown the spotlight on the country’s over-reliance on cheap labour. What is needed is a quicker shift towards higher employment among Malaysian workers and execution of the planned move towards higher-value jobs.

MALAYSIA’s rehabilitation for its addiction towards cheap foreign labour is now long overdue.

Covid-19 has come to disrupt the supply since last year and the withdrawal symptoms have already started to crop up.

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