Delays in foreign worker processing causing losses, say bosses

Hard labour: Workers harvesting oil palm bunches at a palm oil plantation in Banting, Selangor. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PETALING JAYA: It has not been a bed of roses for businesses that want to hire foreign workers.

They have voiced concerns that the recruitment process is still slow, as the government had only recently started the process, while the memoranda for recruitment from different source countries were either only signed recently or still in the process of being signed.