Permit legal refugees to work, says employers group

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.