Foreign workers in food service industry can only serve as cooks, cleaners

KUALA LUMPUR: The Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry has asserted that approval to hire foreign workers in the food service industry is only given to those who will serve as cooks and cleaners.

Its minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin (pic), said the ministry was in the midst of conducting an integrated operation with the Immigration Department and relevant agencies to take action against food service operators who were abusing the approval to hire foreign workers.