KUALA LUMPUR: Bangladeshi workers should be allowed into the country to address the shortage of workers in crucial sectors, says the National Association of Private Employment Agencies Malaysia (Papsma), in a call to Putrajaya.
“The manpower shortage is considered to have exceeded two million foreign workers in main sectors that are not of interest to the local workforce, such as manufacturing, construction and 3D sectors,” Papsma president Datuk Megat Fairouz Junaidi Megat Junid said, referring to dangerous, difficult and dirty.
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