Foreign-worker freeze ‘bad for business’

1 Coffeeshop association members holding up memorandums written to urge the Government to lift the ban of foreign workers entering the country.

COFFEESHOP owners are urging the government to reconsider its decision to freeze the intake of foreign workers.

They claim that the service sector will be badly affected by the temporary ban, as at least half the legal foreign workers in their employment will be sent back home with no replacements.