KUALA LUMPUR: Employers and worker organisations want the Government to suspend the amnesty programme for the 1.2 million illegal workers which began Monday, arguing that the simultaneous ongoing exercise to register legal workers using the biometric system was incomplete and riddled with problems.
"To carry out both exercises in parallel is a massive task which the authorities are unable to handle," Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Shamsuddin Bardan said Monday.
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