Acute shortage of manual harvesters


PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman is urging the government to address the labour shortage in the country, especially in the palm oil industry which is continuing to experience losses for planters and the nation, due to an acute shortage of manual harvesters.

“Even though the government granted special approval for the intake of 32,000 new foreign workers from Bangladesh and Indonesia last month to ease labour shortage in the plantation sector, but these workers have still not arrived.

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