PETALING JAYA: Allowing refugees to work and legalising undocumented foreign workers in Malaysia should be the priority before workers from Africa are brought into the country, say various groups.
Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan said legal refugees, numbering some 170,000 in Malaysia, could potentially fill any gap in the workforce.
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