Foreign workers go underground

In limbo: Foreign workers waiting to be screened during an Immigration department raid in Jalan Kapar, Klang.

PETALING JAYA: It is only the third day of a nationwide operation against illegal foreign workers but employers are beginning to feel the heat.

Fearing enforcement, a large number of both legal and illegal foreign workers have gone into hi­ding, and their employers fear they will not turn up for work until things have cooled down.