PETALING JAYA: While employers say the government’s move to stop the outsourcing of foreign labour will benefit workers, an agency owner expects manufacturers to face a chaotic period and slowdown in their productivity in the next few months when the practice ends on March 31.
Although manufacturers have the option of absorbing these foreign workers as their employees, many of them had not done so when the application for such transfers ended last Dec 31, according to the boss of an agency involved in recruiting foreign workers to be outsourced to companies, who only wanted to be identified as K.C. Tan.
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