SUBANG: The Government will not fully lift the freeze on hiring new foreign workers until irresponsible employers change their attitude towards the welfare of their migrant workers.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed (pic) said that employers, mainly SMEs, prefer to use middlemen and agents in hiring foreign workers so that they do not have to be responsible for the welfare of their workers like housing and medical aid.
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