MyEG gets permit job – and flak

Employers reregistering their workers at MYEG makeshift counter outside Penang Immigrations Department in Butterworth, Penang. Star pic by Asri Abdul Ghani

KUALA LUMPUR: Several groups have slammed the Government’s “sudden” decision to outsource the renewal of the Foreign Workers Permits (PLKS) to MyEG – and the additional RM38 per worker charge that comes with it.

Employers, they said, were taken by surprise when told that renewals could not be done at Immigration Department counters effective Jan 5.